Educational spaces
Classrooms
The campus features a complex of classrooms, most of which are located in a recently constructed building. Two learning labs and several classrooms are equipped with portable and digital technology designed to support active and dynamic teaching:
- writing walls to unleash students' creativity,
- movable tables and chairs to promote flexible room layouts and facilitate group work,
- interactive touchscreens to encourage a variety of teaching methods…
A certification process for the two learning labs under the National Learning Lab Network is currently underway to promote these spaces and develop innovative teaching practices.
RapidMooc
RapidMooc, the campus’s mini recording studio, allows faculty and students to record professional-quality video clips. These clips are produced as part of educational projects organized with the campus’s instructional designer, for e-learning courses, or for communication materials.
3D printing platform
As part of the IDEFI REMIS initiative, the Health Engineering program at the University of Montpellier has created a 3D printing platform for its undergraduate and graduate students in Health Engineering and Pharmacy: EPI3DS (Educational 3D Printing Space for Health). The goal is to introduce students to various 3D printing techniques and computer-aided design.
The Connected Botanical Garden
As part of the renovation of our Faculty’s botanical garden, the entire teaching staff of the Laboratory of Botany, Phytochemistry, and Mycology has come together to bring this space—which serves not only as a place of leisure but, more importantly, as a venue for the study of plants by pharmacy students—into the 21st century.
In addition to installing a new irrigation system and planting new specimens for educational purposes, a list of the plants’ valid Latin names, along with their common names and family classifications, has been compiled. Each specimen is identified by a small information tag featuring a QR code that links to summary fact sheets. This allows users to scan the code with a cell phone to access additional photos of the plant and botanical information at any time of year. The plant’s medicinal uses are also described.
This educational innovation will benefit students and help them better understand their botany courses. In addition to benefiting students in an e-learning setting, these new labels may also be of interest to members of our faculty who often have lunch in our campus gardens, as well as to the general public with an interest in plants.
How do virtual profiles work?
To access the virtual plant profiles, you’ll need an app on your smartphone that can scan QR codes (such as ScanLife). After scanning the QR code close enough to the plant label (as if taking a photo), this allows you to download a description of the plant in question to your phone. There are several data sources (Tela Botanica, SmartJardin, and an internal database) and therefore different formats for the information sheets. Below is the one for the olive tree (source: SmartJardin).
The garden in photos:
