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Remote sensing and control technologies, delivered over the ever-present network, will enable real-time access to laboratories, sophisticated equipment, and experiments directly from the classroom. Advanced video conferencing and collaboration tools combined with real-time language translation tools will allow the creation of global learning communities. Real-time recording and indexing tools will allow lectures to be captured and made searchable in a single pass.
Using a wide variety of emerging technologies, smarter classrooms will bring the outside world into the class space, affording students the opportunity to participate in increasingly active, hands-on learning activities. Simultaneously, as learning technology becomes more mobile, the smart "classroom" will extend beyond the physical space of a given room, going along with learners wherever they happen to be.
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