How Video Conferencing Technology Helps In Modern Classrooms
In the modern education system, e-learning is the most
optimized solution for the students and the tutors to conduct classroom
training virtually. In order to do this a perfect video conferencing solution
is necessary. The video conferencing solution enables the students and the
tutor to have live communication between them. Perfect audio and video
equipment embedded with the VC solution, will deliver a high quality audio and
video communication between the tutor and the students without any
disturbances.
At present, most of the educationists find, VC as an
interactive medium for conducting classroom training for an ample number of
students who are located at variant geographies. Initially most of the students
and parents have a pessimistic view on e-learning, that it wasn't an
interactive session. But with the renovation in the VC technologies, the
e-learning sessions have turned to more interactive.
Video conferencing is a perfect solution for conducting
the virtual classroom training. VC enhances the quality of virtual lessons and
it is a more flexible solution for the students and the tutor. Initially the
videoconferencing used for e-learning was a hardware based, where the tutor and
the students are restricted to the boardroom, where all the hardware equipment
is installed. But now, the videoconferencing solution has become more mobile,
through the invention of video conferencing software.
The video conferencing software enables the user to
connect to the smart classroom by being anywhere across the globe. Through this
solution, the users do not have a need to book the boardroom for attending the
training sessions. The video conferencing software can be installed on a
desktop, laptop, I pad and Android based mobile phones, this type of video
conference is often referred as Desktop video conferencing. Through this
the students can login to the session during the time of traveling also.
The major aspects that are most widely considered in the
virtual classroom is, interactive sessions. In order to make the session more
interactive, it is important that the VC solution must offer the live data
sharing option. The video conferencing software solution, offers all the
features that are required for conducting the virtual classroom more effectively.
VC software is integrated with a digital white board,
which serves as a white board in the physical classroom. Whatever the tutor
scribbles or writes on the digital white board will be seen by all the students
who are attending the virtual classroom session. Upon the release of control by
the tutor, the students will also get an opportunity to write on the white
board. The audio and video communication between the tutor and the students
will be livelier; the students can pose doubts or questions during the session,
as in the traditional classroom.
Apart from the white board, the VC software is composed of
file sharing options, where any kind of files such as ppt, excel sheets, Pdf,
word documents and multimedia files. The tutor can send any kind of study
material to all the students, without separately sending it through the mails.
Being at the conference, the tutor can send reference materials.
The topmost benefits of videoconferencing software for
modern classroom trainings are as follows:
·Highly helpful for the students who are very far located
from the tutors place.
·Operational cost is very low when compared to a physical
classroom.
·The tutor and the students can share the materials
immediately
·Flexibility and mobility are the added features in video
conferencing software
·The tutors and the students can share the digital whiteboard;
students can raise doubts at any time during the VC session.
·Through the various layouts in the VC software solution,
the tutor screen can be shown in a Maximized screen and the various students in
the VC will be shown in the floating screens.
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