Impact on Education

Videoconferencing provides students with the opportunity to learn by participating in a 2-way communication platform. Furthermore, teachers and lecturers from all over the world can be brought to classes in remote or otherwise isolated places. Students from diverse communities and backgrounds can come together to learn about one another. Students are able to explore, communicate, analyze and share information and ideas with one another. Lecturers, professors and medical staff can share information, discuss cases and gain immediate feedback on any issues or information they like.

Here are a few examples of how videoconferencing can benefit people around campus:

• Faculty member keeps in touch with class while gone for a week at a conference
• Guest lecturer brought into a class from another institution
• Researcher/medical staff/lecturer collaborates with colleagues at other institutions on a regular basis without loss of time due to travel
• Faculty member participates in a thesis evaluation/discussion at another institution
• Administrators on tight schedules collaborate on a budget preparation from different parts of campus
• University interviews staff from round the world for a vacancy
• Researcher answers questions about a grant proposal from an agency or review committee
• Student interviews with an employer in another city