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EdTech Sandbox

Coming Soon! Waterloo's EdTech Sandbox

Coming to campus in Fall 2024, the EdTech Sandbox will provide space and tools to experiment with EdTech, and be accessible by staff, instructors, and students. It will include both a virtual place to experiment with online technologies and tools, and a physical space for collaboration and experimentation with different teaching and learning technologies within a flexible active-learning classroom-type environment where instructors and students can put technology-enabled teaching approaches into practice.

The physical classroom and collaboration space will enable flexible collaborative learning experimentation with infrastructure components that may include but are not limited to movable furniture and dividers, extensive networking and outlets, movable digital and non-digital whiteboards, projectors and other required audio-visual technology, video cameras, virtual reality goggles, 360 cameras, computers, and portable screens and lighting. The virtual component of the EdTech sandbox will consist of licenses or possible small consulting fees to pilot or make changes to EdTech software tools.

Visit this page to stay up to date on developments related to the EdTech Sandbox! 

Project Updates

ITMS and the TII are looking for instructors, students, and staff with experience, or who are willing to use polling tools Vevox and/or iClicker to participate in a pilot during the Fall 2024 and/or Winter 2025 terms. Note: interested students can apply to join the pilot so long as they have experience using either polling tool; there is no requisite that students must join the pilot with their instructor.