12th Pacific Science Inter-Congress, 8-12 July 2013
University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay Campus, Suva, Fiji
Connecting the Region using Intelligent
Classrooms
Sheikh Izzal Azid , Bibhya Sharma2
The University of the South Pacific, azid_s@usp.ac.fj
2
The University of the South Pacific, sharma_b@usp.ac.fj
1
This era has witnessed a pedagogical shift in the area of ICT
driven education. While the developed countries have it and
use it in every aspect of their lives, the developing countries
desperately need the ICT tool for its students. Due to the
geographical location of the Pacific Island countries, there is a
genuine need to design and develop tailor-made Intelligent
Classrooms. Hence, another new initiative of USP is to invest
in the Intelligent Classroom would be located in all the USP
regional campuses with networking of intelligent sensors.
This paper presents the prototype of smart classroom which
ultimately scaffold to Intelligent Classroom. The intelligent
classrooms would be interfaced such that the distance
student/staff would be able to interact actively in real time.
Adding live-blog for students during lectures to discuss and
share ideas with other the students in the same lecture
throughout the region. Through live-blog students in small
number class in some campus would not feel isolated. Smart
timetable is also linked where students will be able to view
lecture times via Mobile app, or even the lecturer can book
the classroom using app. Moreover human action recognition
and voice to text is also interfaced to ease load on lecturer
and convert lecture into subtitles preferred to students.
12th Pacific Science Inter-Congress, 8-12 July 2013
University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay Campus, Suva, Fiji
Key Words: (Intelligent Classroom, Sensor network, Live
Blogs ).