The N2N (N-Squared) Learning project seeks to explore new paradigms for future classroom that will revolutionize student learning through the use of digital media, engaging students in computer science, music, and technology at CalArts, Stanford University's CCRMA, and beyond. In this environment, classroom participants are placed in configurations (e.g., circle) to give each person immediate and symmetrically sonic and visual access to everyone else - simultaneously. Each student station consists of a laptop, hemispherical speaker array, controllers for music-making, and a large-scale, mobile digital display (e.g., 70"-80" HDTV).

The information that is traditionally self-viewed by the laptop user becomes material for exploration for all students. The curricula involved to prototype this classroom (software, programming, music composition, sound design, hardware design, live performance) are well suited to this type of many-to-many learning since each requires a process of creative decisions where the learning takes place from doing, experimenting, and peer learning. By enabling students to actively engage with (potentially all) other students at every stage of this process, and by developing a dedicated curriculum for this type of classroom, we imagine that the learning process will be not only enriched and accelerated, but fundamentally transformed.