SCADM : a developed smart classroom acoustics design model for enhancing educational environment

Abstract EN

The quality and efficiency of learning and teaching processes in academic universities depend on many important factors.

Acoustic quality within the learning environment of the classroom and its surroundings is one of the most important factors that affect the quality of the learning process.

Several studies and researches focused on the subject of acoustical comfort in university classrooms.

In this paper we study smart classroom acoustics design issues required to achieve high quality acoustics conditions.

These designing issues include inside and outside noise sources, designing for optimum reverberation time, selection of sound insulation and acoustical treatment materials, designing for speech intelligibility, and auralization inside the KAU classrooms.

The aim is to suggest a developed smart classroom acoustics design model (SCADM) that can be used by architects, acoustics engineers and designers in an early stage of classroom design in order to achieve the acoustical conditions of KAU university classrooms.

The goal of this research is to raise the quality and efficiency of the educational environment to reach an excellent learning environment, and hence increasing students learning outcomes.