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Title: Teaching via videoconferencing


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Teaching via videoconferencing
  • Mark Childs

2
Aims of session
  • Some types of technology
  • Some uses of videoconferencing
  • Some issues in implementation

3
The ANNIE project
  • Providing access to remote experts/ remote
    delivery to students
  • Using various technologies
  • in various teaching situations
  • supporting drama, dance and theatre studies

4
Various technologies
  • ISDN
  • IP ViewStation
  • IP PC
  • IP PC projection
  • Two-way
  • Multi-way

5
ISDN sessions
  • High quality video BUT
  • Requires a lot of organising
  • Unreliable
  • In rooms unsuitable for teaching
  • Couldnt run PowerPoint
  • Technology not owned
  • Expensive

6
IP PCs projection
  • weaknesses
  • Low quality
  • Bandwidth problems
  • Required some upskilling at far end
  • Permissions through firewalls

7
IP PCs projection
  • strengths
  • Some preferred low quality of IP
  • Felt empowered by
  • familiar technology
  • Location of technology
  • Ease of use
  • Low or no cost

8
ISDN v IP
  • ISDN no bandwidth problems
  • IP no location or booking problems
  • Depends on which technology other end has access
    to or wants to use
  • Can mix and match using JVCS

9
Room-based TCP/IP
  • Had success with Polycom ViewStation
  • Plug-and-play just connected to Internet port in
    studio
  • High quality video and audio
  • BUT firewall and bandwidth problems, could only
    use in evenings

10
Room-based TCP/IP
  • Some institutions connected to Access Grid
  • Dedicated location means less likely to have a
    firewall problem
  • High quality video and audio
  • BUT only 1500 institutions connected across world

11
Tutorials and vivas
  • For tutorials
  • just need a PC, a headset, and a webcamera
  • Typified by high amounts of interaction between
    students and lecturers.
  • Virtual scenography.

12
Lectures and software demos
  • For lectures
  • also need a data projector, speakers, a digital
    video camera and a videobus
  • One mode (lecturer to student) tends to dominate
  • Stage design software

13
Videoconferenced workshops
  • Linking two sites
  • Physical Performance
  • Linking multiple sites
  • Telematic Performance at Warwick

14
Other synchronous work
  • Text chat
  • Audio chat
  • Telephone
  • SMS messaging
  • Above in combination
  • http//www.upstage.org.nz/

15
Implementation
  • Strengths
  • Had involvement of a specific school
  • Academics set agenda
  • Few changes in working practices
  • Provided a manageable and easily implemented
    technology

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Implementation
  • Weaknesses
  • Central services gatekeepers but not stakeholders
  • No in-house technical support to continue work

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Recommendations
  • Inform participants of techniques for effective
    videoconferenced teaching
  • Devolve as much of the technology skills as
    possible
  • Be flexible with technology and activities
  • Manage expectations
  • Promote internally

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Contacts
  • m.childs_at_warwick.ac.uk
  • http//www.warwick.ac.uk/ETS/ANNIE/
  • http//www.diverse-video.net
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