First intercontinental class with Hologram Professor

The agreement between Tecnológico de Monterrey and the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has materialized with the first intercontinental class that uses the Hologram Professor model for educational research and innovation.

The Vice-Rector of Educational Innovation of the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) and the NewMedia Center of the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) have carried out the first class exchange worldwide with the initiative Professor Hologram, fruit of the agreement signed by both institutions last June.

Some sixty students witnessed the start of this academic collaboration with the intercontinental first class, that took place in the Hologram Receiving Room on Campus Monterrey.

The objective of this first international academic session with Professor Hologram has been to investigate and develop projects on real case studies to prevent urban risks., as well as providing socio-ecological solutions that promote collaboration between the Department of Urban Planning at TU Delft and the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Through telepresence, Teachers from the Querétaro and Monterrey campuses participated in this first intercontinental class., and the Urban Planning Department of TU Delft, who had as a special guest Chris Zevenbergen, who gave the conference with hologram technology Sustainable urbanization – Water sensitive city.

“Work collaboratively on innovation and research projects with a highly recognized university like TU Delft, allows us to continue promoting international experiences of educational innovation, integrating and implementing new technologies in the academic training of the student community”, they point out from TEC.

In this sense, Tecnológico de Monterrey has been 2018 implementing the Professor Hologram project in some of its classes as an educational and innovative experience, based on telepresence, that recreates the natural dynamics of in-person environments through the use of technology that simulates a hologram effect.

that year, the TEC taught a class to more than 160 students from five different campuses with a two-dimensional hologram that projected the full-length figure of the professor. “Technology has become the best ally for our students, by giving them the opportunity to have international conferences and exchange outstanding professors at a global level”.