How Universities Use Document Cameras
Document cameras are used in all kinds of teaching institutions. However, they really come into their own when you have to teach to a large class. Lecture theatres are a perfect example of somewhere they are especially useful.
Most university classes are taught in large lecture theatres rather than classrooms. For this reason audio visual equipment has to be used to ensure that the whole classroom can hear the professor. Most lecturers have to use visual aids at some point and need to use audio visual equipment so that the room can see those visual aids. For sharing visual aids with a large class document cameras are the best AV aid there is.
Document cameras can display 3D objects, so it is possible to display an object from all angles. You can even physically carry out an experiment or make something from scratch under a document camera. That way the whole class can be shown an item or a procedure in detail. Not even students at the back of the lecture studio are going to miss anything.
Document cameras, unlike their predecessor, the overhead projector, are also compatible with a host of other audio visual equipment, making it easier to present videos and probably most useful of all, display lectures with a remote host.
Connected to the right equipment document cameras can be used to present a lecture remotely. They are used in this way by the business community as well as by schools, colleges and universities.
Because the document camera can present information in such startling and precise detail, it is a very valuable tool in the classroom. For presenting art work to a large group, or even pages from a book, the visualiser is now a crucial part of learning and teaching particularly in a university setting.