Horizon Report 2006: further reading: Designing for the Virtual Interactive Classroom

From RG-Bibliowiki

Designing for the Virtual Interactive Classroom (Judith V. Boettcher, Campus Technology, May 1, 2005): Discusses possible ways to move beyond the asynchonous technology in academic use -- the Web and online classrooms -- toward synchronous applications for collaboration in all sizes of groups.

Contents 1 Examples 1.1 Small group meetings (2-6, no more than 10) 1.2 Interactive class meetings (10-30, under 100) 1.3 Large class meetings (100+)

Examples

Small group meetings (2-6, no more than 10)

• Highly interactive

• Office hours
• tutorials
• team meetings
• study groups
• Tools
  • Live video feed
  • microphones
  • Macromedia Breeze Live
  • Marratech eMeeting, descriped in an article from Power to Learn 2004

Interactive class meetings (10-30, under 100)

• Higher ed classes that share same time space, but not physical space
• All of needs of small group plus others:
  • High bandwidth
  • interoperability important
  • "presence" feature such as "raising a hand"

Large class meetings (100+)

• all of preceeding features/needs
• Limited interaction due to size
• similar to talk show or webcast