Articles of category "Teleconferences"

Due to the development of an automated online satellite teleconference systems, the bar in the distance learning market has drastically raised. Today's conference call services include not only telephone communication, but also video and web communication. Teleconferences' options, combined with new technologies, make conference-call meetings a viable alternative to an expensive travel. Teleconferences allow a real- time interaction to be established among three or more parties in such a manner that each of the parties is able to communicate with all the other parties.

Until the advent of telecommunications technologies, distance educators were pressed hard to provide a two-way real time interaction or a time-delayed interaction between students and an instructor. Today, a real- time collaborative learning is done through different types of teleconferencing, such as audio, audiographics, video and computer conferencing. These four types of teleconferencing vary in the types of technologies, the complexity of the use and cost; however, all have several unique common advantages.