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to shiſt quickly enough and off er the best
technology or platform to every student.
Those institutions, he continues, " ...have
evaluated the way they teach, [and they're]
looking to add new technologies that will
bring people together. "
Investment Across Approaches
Integrators can expect to see opportunities
both for hybrid-learning systems and
for more traditional classroom systems in
the intermediate term. As Wargo puts it,
" You're now seeing reinforcing investments
in how to facilitate a distributed
learning mode, as well as improvements to
classrooms to better foster content capture
and collaboration.... " Incidentally, he
notes, those investments include integrating
in-person classroom technologies,
such as projectors.
Jim Maltese, vice president of quality
One of the most prevalent technologies being
utilized for hybrid-learning applications
today centers on cameras that can follow
an instructor around the room, thereby
liberating them from having to be stationary.
learning, and breakout sessions that are
technology-mediated.
Joe Perez, chief technology offi cer with
ClearTech Media, as well as a member of
the NSCA Emerging Technologies Committee,
picks up on that thread. Perez cites
his 12-year-old daughter as a case in point.
" She has the ability to chat with instructors,
review the data and [gain] instant document
access because her school has now
integrated everything into one platform, "
he relates. " I'm sure this has also had a
positive impact on instructors. " Acknowledging
how demanding the onset of the
pandemic was for academic institutions,
Perez observes that some weren't able
The Size of the Education Market (Revenues and Projections)
$23.1 billion $20.8 billion $22.4 billion $24.5 billion
$26 billion $27.2 billion $28.2 billion $28.8 billion
standards, Level 3 Audiovisual (L3AV),
agrees, adding that, although no highered
system goes out without some element
of distance-learning capability these
days, decision-makers are approaching
investments with a wider view. Explaining
that, he says, " ...[T]he distance-learning
capability does not always command as
large a percentage of the project as it used
to. I would guess than 10% to 15% of our
[eff orts] were dedicated to adding
distance-learning capabilities. " On
the other side of the fence, Jim Ferlino,
president of Vistacom Inc., attests that
hybrid learning has been the engine of
the company's higher-education work
lately. He explains, " ...[Eighty percent] or
more of these opportunities were either
driven by distance education or included a
distance-education component. "
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The education market, like all commercial AV verticals, experienced contraction when the COVID-19 pandemic emerged. However,
this year, we expect to see revenues climbing back and exceeding 2019 levels - the previous high-water mark. Further growth in the
education vertical is anticipated through 2026 at least. By that time, it should reach $28.8 billion in revenues.
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