Virtual Classrooms & Video Conference

VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS & VIDEO CONFERENCING

Video Conferencing helps you to have a face-to-face meeting remotely over internet. This helps in avoiding the need to travel. Thus the time, energy and money spent on travel is eliminated by video conferencing. The fatigue, jet-lag, risk of making long journeys is no longer there when you have the facility of video-conferencing. This is extremely useful to organisations having multiple locations. Earlier top executives used to travel by plane from one office to another to have meetings with their employees. Now with video conferencing equipment at each office, they can have a face-to-face meeting over internet / telecom networks.

Another major area where video-conferencing has helped is VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS. Virtual classrooms can be conducted with students attending classes from their homes and teachers/ professors teaching remotely over internet. Thus a teacher / lecturer / trainer could be taking a lecture (to a physically empty classroom) at location A, and the students attending the lecture could be connected to him/her over internet at geographically diverse locations B, C, D....

High definition video cameras are used to capture the picture and sensitive microphones to capture the voice. The picture is displayed at the other end on a large plasma TV or projected on a screen, and voice played on HiFi speakers to make it as close to real.

Also called : Remote teaching, remote lecture, remote classroom, video call