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Expanding Distance Learning Program Using Innovative Video System
1/30/2004
Now, instead of relying on PowerPoint slides for learning material, students can watch live or pre-recorded class sessions and demonstrations taught by professors. Because the quality and fidelity of video transmissions is so high, remote-learning students can pick up nuances and subtleties of a lecture or labdemonstration that would otherwise be missing from a set of slides or an audio recording.
With the ability to offer up live and on-demand classes simultaneously at any location, Cedar Valley is paving the way for distance learning on a broad scope ahead of the pace of education, but with the cutting edge of technology and education. This collaboration is breaking the geographic boundaries that limit traditional education and eliminating distance from learning.
Jason D. Siegrist (jsiegrist@dcccd.edu) is IS manager at Cedar Valley College
in Dallas, Texas.
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