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• Video Conferencing Technology and Education

  Date: 2012.05.05 | Category: Technology News | Response: 0

  Video Conferencing Technology and Education

   

  This is the first in a series of articles focusing on video conferencing and education. Part 1: The Teaching Predicament primarily focuses on the dilemma that educational institutes around the world have been facing in terms of teaching.

  Over the recent years, visual communication as an effective tool to enhance delivery of education has gained a lot of traction. Educational institutes are constantly faced with the challenge of maintaining consistency and quality of teaching over geographically dispersed branches. For instance, will a student enrolled in an undergraduate business studies program at a top tier American university experience the same teaching quality in the Middle East or Europe? The answer to this question will most likely be ‘not quite’.

  Although there are a number of variables at play here but the most fundamental challenge is access to the same quality of instructors across geographical regions. Geographical regions can typify different branches in the same city, across cities, countries and continents. Maintaining teaching standards across continents is even a bigger challenge given the social, cultural and ethnic divides.

  A traditional approach to somewhat alleviate the problem is to fly in faculty periodically to conduct workshops. However, this can prove to be very costly and cumbersome. Technology has an answer for this common and age-old problem. Although video conferencing solutions have been around since the 1980s, they’ve never been so affordable and accessible as they are today.

  Visual communication technology has advanced leaps and bounds making it highly immersive and interactive. More importantly, the bandwidth and the infrastructure that is required to support a truly interactive video conference is ever more affordable and ubiquitous now. This makes videoconferencing a viable and practical learning tool for the classroom. Truly interactive visual communication can add a level of teaching consistency across multiple institutes.

  Full HD 1080p video, 360-degree audio combined with interactive whiteboards and multiple cameras provide the next best thing to being physically present in a classroom. Video conferencing technology has truly reinvented how teachers and students interaction. From sharing lecture notes and feedback to carrying out assignments and group work, a video conference setup in a classroom knows no geographical boundaries. The selection of video conferencing equipment however may appear to be daunting initially with the sheer amount of options available. I personally prefer Panasonic Video Conferencing.

  Panasonic is a manufacturer of state-of-the-art Video Conferencing equipment. Their Visual Communication technology combines full 1080i video coupled with advanced compression algorithms connecting you with colleagues and experts around the world on standard broadband connections. 360° HD Full Duplex Audio with echo cancellation technology combined with stunning video provides a truly immersive and collaborative video conference.

   

   

  Samuel Becker Writes for Panasonic Video Conferencing. Panasonic’s video conferencing equipment is exquisite! Designed with the end user in mind, Panasonic has created a suite of video conference components that anyone can operate with ease.

• Uses of Technology in Education

  Date: 2012.05.01 | Category: Technology News | Response: 0

  Uses of Technology in Education

  Today, technology plays an important role in the way students learn and how the teachers send the information to students.

  There have much technological advancement wherein it helped teachers to efficiently communicate with the students the lessons that they need to learn.

  Here are some of the implementations of technology in the way students learn their lessons.

  One common example of this is the use of videos in teaching children. In order for the teachers to illustrate the lessons more clearly, they use video materials so that students will be able to understand more easily the concepts that the teacher wants them to know.

  Interactive whiteboards are also example of implementation of technology in the education system. This is either using a projector or computers to show to the students the screen of the teacher. The idea of this is to let students interact with the teachers while having a discussion.

  PowerPoint presentations have also helped many educators in teaching their students.

  PowerPoint is showing the lessons in a projector. This is very common among instructors who need illustrations so that they may be able to efficiently send the message to the students.

  Based on researches, students learn faster if they do things and discover them on their own rather than just listening to what the teacher is saying. Due to this reason, it is now becoming more and more important for educators to find ways on how to make their lessons more interactive so that the students will be able to learn their lessons efficiently.

  Technology is such an important thing in the educational system that without it, teachers will find it hard to teach their lessons especially those who need to show illustrations to students.

  Technology also plays an important role on how students gain access to the information which is vital to their learning.

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