New NSC building packed with high-tech tools
In its infancy, Nevada State College, operating in a strip mall and vitamin warehouse, might have seemed like the stepchild of Nevada’s higher education system.
This week, though, the 6-year-old college rang in the school year with a 42,000-square-foot, $23.4 million building in Henderson that might earn it the envy of its older siblings.
Sure, it has a fresh coat of paint and a view of the mountains, but it also is packed with technology that could change the way professors teach.
Each of 10 classrooms and labs is outfitted with a Sympodium, which allows instructors to use a hand-held pen to write, ink-free, on a computer screen and display their notes on a larger screen for students.
Each room also comes with a document camera, a new-age overhead projector. The device enables professors to place any paper or object on a small platform and project the image, enlarged, onto a screen. Read full story:
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