Overview

ISDN presents a new challenge for educators and trainers. This book provides an introduction to the technology for educators interested firstly in whether to use it and secondly in how to use it. The first three chapters discuss practical, educational and strategic issues related to these two questions. The following ten chapters provide case studies of education and training uses of ISDN technologies in Europe, the US and Australia. These involve videoconferencing, audiographics, desktop conferencing and image banks. The book concludes with a large glossary of explanatory material.

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Author:   Robin Mason ,  Paul Bacsich
Publisher:   Institution of Engineering and Technology
Imprint:   Institution of Engineering and Technology
ISBN:  

9780852968604

ISBN 10:   0852968604
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   30 October 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Section 1: Introduction to ISDN Chapter 1: ISDN: theoretical specification, practical potential Chapter 2: The educational value of ISDN Chapter 3: ISDN - strategic issues Section 2: Videoconferencing applications Chapter 4: Challenges and opportunities in extending the classroom and the campus via digital compressed video Chapter 5: Videoconferencing in a multicampus setting Chapter 6: ISDN-based videoconferencing in Australian tertiary education Chapter 7: ISDN videotelephony in Norway Chapter 8: ISDN videoconferencing for education and training Chapter 9: A French experiment in distance learning by ISDN: 'Le Visiocentre de Formation' Section 3: Other applications of ISDN Chapter 10: ISDN technology in teaching Chapter 11: Co-Learn: an ISDN-based multimedia environment for collaborative learning Chapter 12: A multimedia environment for distributed learning Chapter 13: The integration of ISDN into a multi-functional visual communications network

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Robin Mason has evaluated a wide range of telecommunications technologies used in a European educational context. While computer conferencing is still the most appropriate medium for home-based students, she sees videoconferencing, audiographics and desktop conferencing as playing an increasingly larger role in other forms of remote teaching and training. Paul Bacsich has spent many years implementing communications based systems for teaching - audio conferencing, audiographics, electronic mail and resource-based systems - using a wide range of technologies including satellite communications and ISDN. He sees a significant future for ISDN in the professional updating sector, with synergy between ISDN-based videoconferencing for lectures and ISDN-based computer conferencing for tutorials.

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