Interactive classroom for DSP/communication courses

In this study, we present a new classroom environment to conduct digital signal processing and communication systems courses. Key features of the model are the collaborating instructor embracing students, a smart classroom equipped with a “whiteboard” and advanced telecommunication networks, electronic textbook, and other resources, World Wide Web (WWW), Matlab, and other online tools. The underlying assumptions of the educational process are team building instead of independent learning, collaborating/supervising instructor, lateral curriculum instead of a vertical curriculum, and idea-to-product design concept. We present a sample lecture in the proposed interactive classroom, where the concept of eye diagrams in regenerative repeaters are presented from the first author´s text using Matlab and the WWW