In general having wireless access in an on-campus class lets you create a computer lab of arbitrary size. Because the students bring their own computers, you can have a huge lecture hall that acts like a lab where all of the students can try out what you’re talking about in real time and then let you know how it works and get some feedback from you and from each other. What tends to happen in my class is: I’ll have thirty students in a computer lab and I will give them stuff to do and I’ll be in one corner helping some students, and the students in the rest of the room start helping each other out because they know I can’t get there in awhile. So, it ends up being sort of a team atmosphere built on the fly that really seems to work well. I liked the atmosphere of having the students working in class and helping each other out, and getting help from me.

Jake Blanchard, Professor, College of Engineering, Engineering Physics