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Video Conferenced Courses
Information about Video Conferenced Courses can be found at the OU Online Support Center, located at http://support.ou.edu. Search on keyword OUvideo.
However you refer to it...Talkback TV, Interactive Educational Television, or Two-Way Television...the University of Oklahoma has been providing courses via this exciting distance education format since the late 1960's.
The telecommunications technology known as videoconferencing is already a standard in many corporate board rooms. The use of this technology in education:
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reduces travel time and costs (for students, faculty, or both).
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A commercial site in Ada, Oklahoma is roughly 1 and a half hours away. Several students there are interested in a course running MWF from 9:30 - 10:20AM. By delivering the course to their jobsite, we're saving them 9 hours a week windshield time. |
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Typical travel time between here and Tulsa is 2 hours one way. Graduate classes are most often delivered in the evening. Professors typically spend the night as they are exhausted after a busy day.
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reaches enough students to make courses economically feasible.
Example:
Professor B has a special topics course that typically attracts 3-5 students on campus. By opening the course to the Tulsa area, she now has 15 students.
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enables collaborative teaching with colleagues at other universities.
Example:
Professor Y is teaching a course on Native American Law. He has colleagues in Canada and Australia who are doing similar work. They band together to deliver a comparative study for how each nation deals with sovereignty of its aboriginal peoples.
- accommodates remote guest lecturers.
Example:
Professor X has arranged for a noted author to present to her class. At the last minute, the author has broken his leg. Because this is a VCC course, the author is able to dial in.
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fosters support with businesses.
Example:
Businesses are developing continuing education classrooms to import instruction to their employees to reduce the time they are away from their work)
Today, we are successfully transmitting and receiving courses, lectures and symposia via videoconference from and to every continent.
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