1. Case Study
Video Conferencing
What is it Higher education/Further education students who would like to try a video conference
useful for?
Who is it Any learners who may be remote and could contact their tutor/peers eg. distance
useful for? learning programmes
Learners who may want to set up a video conference with students in another
institution anywhere in the world
Organising a guest speaker session where the guest speaker does not physically have to
travel to the college
How can Contact George Wraith to arrange the access to mega meeting software and contact the ILT
you use it? team for training. It’s quite an easy piece of software to use and should only take one session
but you may want to have a training session for your learners as well.
You will need to ensure that learners have access to webcams and also headsets.
The current system in college will allow up to six people have conference at any one time,
however George will advise if you wanted more (but there is a fee!)
Contact the ILT team for equipment.
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2. Case Study
Video Conferencing Contd...
What are Benefits for the students:
the Opportunity to engage remote students in face to face contact really useful for distance
benefits? learning programmes
Opportunity to engage learners in a video conference with students from anywhere in
the world
Opportunity to organise guest speakers from anywhere in the world
Any other This does take some advance planning to get used to the system and also ensure that the
tips? technical set up is working.
It would be worthwhile having a trial with a member of staff elsewhere in the college before
your actual video conference.
Currently the web cams in college do not work on VDI machines so you may need to access
to a fat client machine. Which are still located in rooms with interactive whiteboards.