NEC Provides AV Equipment to Moravian College Experiential Learning Center

This center of more than 13.700 square meters houses six laboratories, a conference room and two large rooms used for distance education. To offer the visual environment that was sought, E905 screens of 90 inches, E705 70 and E805 80 inches. In addition, Cameras have also been installed in the instances to capture what is happening in the room.

In April 2015, he Moravian College, located in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania – United States), brought together a group of experts to expand and renovate an existing building, not far from main campus, and give life to the sports medicine and rehabilitation center (The Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center). The goal was to create an experiential learning center that will double the space and provide a hands-on environment for sports medicine and rehabilitation..

Moravian College contact the integrator Advanced AV for the commissioning of audiovisual equipment and network and connection structures. “In the visual field, “We were looking for a high-resolution screen for presentations and another that would allow images of MRIs and x-rays to be shown.”, explica James Scifers, responsible for the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences of Moravia and director of the Training Program.

In addition to these requirements, other equipment was also needed to incorporate into the laboratories., conference rooms and classrooms. And the solution was found in technology. NEC Display, specifically on the E Series screens.

“The touch screen control with the custom graphical user interface that these displays provide is probably the most important component of the systems.. Complex AV solutions required, and this solution simplifies user control and interactivity”, comments Mike Morgan, account executive de Advanced AV.

The Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center consists of several specialized laboratories where specific skills are taught in various programs aimed at preparing them to be health professionals..

“They are learning a lot of practical activities and technology is a key element, in particular the screens, to deliver content to students through video, PowerPoint and high-resolution images as diagnostic exams, with which they can identify the pathology and understand how they could intervene in different pathologies”, clarifies Scifers.

The installation of more than 13.700 square meters was inaugurated in March 2016 and now houses the College of Science's athletic training program (Master of Science in Athletic Training), as well as the Health network of the University of St. Luke, and will be the home of the future center where doctorates in occupational therapy and physical therapy will be taught, as well as a Master of Science program in speech pathology.

“From a teaching point of view, It is good to have access to technology that allows us to expand our way of teaching. Without these large, high-resolution monitors, we would be limited in the way we view the content. Now we can use video, “seeing the finer details of diagnostic imaging and filming what is happening in the lab to then use and apply to student learning.”.

Learning and simulation

The center is distributed over two floors and on the second floor there is the splint laboratory and the simulation laboratory.. In the first stay, students learn to make splints and, for it, They have a screen 90 inches E905 with which the teacher explains step by step how to do it. In the second room, an apartment is recreated so that students can learn to care for patients who return home after hospitalization or surgery.. An E705 display has been installed here. 70 inches where classes are held to explain, for example how to safely move patients in and out of the bathtub.

The Orthopedic evaluation laboratory is also located on this floor., where the most prominent element is a pentagonal arrangement formed by five E705 screens of 70 inches, located in the center of the room, which is accompanied by an E905 90 inch wall-mounted that allows multiple images to be displayed at once.

“We can have video on a screen, a PowerPoint in another, surf the web in a third and obtain research data with video in another. It is possible to do a wide variety of different things in the same space, which improves student learning”, declara Scifers.

The hands-on activities of this learning lab are greatly facilitated by the configuration of the screens and various cameras that have been placed around the room..

“We use cameras to capture what is happening and display that content on screens. This way it is possible to show different points of view and stop at the one that is most convenient at all times.. The camera projects simultaneously to the screens, so that students can see it from any angle”, continua Scifers.

Finally, On this floor are the research and therapeutic modalities laboratories., each equipped with a screen 70 inch E705 whose images are sent via Airplay from small computer monitors to optimize project viewing.

In the therapeutic laboratory, students learn to use the laser, ultrasound equipment, electrical stimulation, massage and hot and cold therapy. The screens are used to show practical cases that are carried out in simulated environments.

The last space on the first floor is the functional rehabilitation laboratory, which includes two E905 screens 90 inches, as well as cameras, and is used to teach how to act in medical emergency care and biomechanics.

The second floor has a conference room where another E705 screen has been installed. 70 inches and a lobby that has an E585 of 58 inches offering visitor information.

This center is completed with two rooms, each with dual E805 screens 80 inches that are primarily used to deliver lecture-type teaching materials, including distance education, in which instructors from all over the country are able to teach through GoToMeeting.