Activating Large Classrooms with Verb

New from Steelcase Education is the Verb Active Media Table – a solution specifically designed to support different learning modes in large active classrooms.

With a mobile monitor lift, the screen can be raised and lowered on-demand, empowering students to seamlessly shift between lecture and large group discussion to small group work while maintaining needed sightlines.

See this product in action on YouTube, and read details in the brochure.

Design background story

Because active learning is inherently fluid and dynamic, the spaces in which it takes place should be flexible as well.

Texas A&M University recognized the need for active learning in order to achieve student success. With one of the top-rated engineering programs in the U.S., the university plans to increase its engineering student enrollment by more than a third. To reach this goal, educators realized they needed to move away from traditional classroom and lecture hall approaches. The central question became: How can a large classroom support both active learning and lecture-driven instruction while effectively integrating technology?

Together, the university and Steelcase Education worked to create a classroom solution set to amplify collaboration, engage students and simultaneously resolve technological obstructions. Enter Verb Active Media Table.

Created for the university, this mobile table offers access to power for a variety of devices and hosts a 32-inch monitor with an automatic monitor lift. The table facilitates technological needs, improves sightlines and increases student engagement with professors, peers and content. You can learn more about the university’s success in the Texas A&M case study entitled “Active Learning at Scale.”

Custer is proud to bring you insights from our partner, Steelcase.