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Video Delivery Products Enhance Distance Learning Quality
8/7/2006
Competing products offer that capability, Hutchison says, but at a significantly greater cost and not always as smoothly. A Codian 20-port bridge product can handle every single port at a different speed, if needed. “Other products are limited to the number of trans-codings you can do,” Hutchison says. That drives up the cost-per-port for other products.
One of the goals for UVA’s distance learning program, especially regarding faculty, Grove says, is a seamless system. “We want the distance teaching experience to be the same as the standard [face-to-face classroom experience]… Distance shouldn’t act as a barrier for faculty.” As digital video technology matures, that goal of seamless delivery is becoming easier.
Linda L. Briggs is a freelance writer based in San Diego, Calif.
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