Higher education’s post COVID baseline is clear: classrooms must be always available (recorded instruction via lecture capture) and always accessible (from anywhere via video conference) while preserving hig post-COVID baseline is clear: classrooms must always be available (recorded instruction via lecture capture) and always accessible (from anywhere via video conference) while preserving high-quality in-room hquality inroom, face-to-face teaching. This workshop shows how to design, upgrade, and operate learning spaces that deliver reliable live instruction, seamless lecture capture, and robust video conferencing all without cutting corners.  

We frame “budget” as a dual benefit: (1) deliver defined, acceptable standards of support for less; or (2) deliver more capability for the same budget. Using modular, standards based designs, and also planning for the post-installation lifecycle costing, participants will map pedagogical modes to technical requirements, select rightsized subsystems (audio, video, control, network), and build a sustainable support model (monitoring, staffing, and SLAs) that keeps rooms “always on.” We’ll address accessibility, privacy/consent, security, equity of experience, and change management for faculty and students.