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Until there’s teleportation… there’s always videoconferencing

Until there’s teleportation… there’s always videoconferencing. Alison Walker Learning and Development Coordinator Welsh Video Network. Welsh Video Network Support Centre: Technical Support Learning and Teaching Support. What is the Welsh Video Network?. But do people use it?.

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Until there’s teleportation… there’s always videoconferencing

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  1. Until there’s teleportation… there’s always videoconferencing Alison Walker Learning and Development Coordinator Welsh Video Network

  2. Welsh Video Network Support Centre: Technical Support Learning and Teaching Support What is the Welsh Video Network?

  3. But do people use it? 386 conferences (January – May 2009) Average 78 conferences per month 630 hours

  4. Interviews

  5. Meetings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNbXwoQ-rXo

  6. Centre for Welsh Medium Higher Education Script Writing Aberystwyth University University of Glamorgan Shared Teaching Load Guest speakers face-to face element Next year…. Online exercises 12 Subject Network Panels Project team Meetings

  7. MA Ancient History and Classical Culture …students benefit from the range of expertise within classics departments in Wales. Smaller institutions could draw on the broad range of academic skills from across three institutions. It allowed the development of parallel MA schemes which could be taught collaboratively across three institutions. Dr D W Gill, Swansea University

  8. MA Lifelong Learning The course is quite intense and the additional travelling time, of well over 2 hrs each week, would have made attendance impossible Swansea University Pembrokeshire College without video conferencing I wouldn’t have enrolled on this course …am impressed with using videoconferencing and would definitely use it again …participating in the lectures that I would not otherwise have been able to.

  9. Never underestimate… The Importance of the Tutor Confidence with the technology Variety of teaching strategies Creating a single group Local Support Use of resources Independent learner Prepared to participate Confidence with the technology The Role of the learner

  10. But I won’t use it for distance learning… Higher Education Link Project WVN HELP Aberystwyth: Sport and Exercise Science; Theatre, Film, and TV Studies. Bangor: Chemistry; Computer Science; Electronic Engineering; English. Swansea: Adult Nursing. UWIC: Dental Technology; Hospitality and Catering; Psychology. Admissions Tutors

  11. WVN Lecture Series Pilot Subject: Welsh Un Nos Ola Leuad Mihangel Morgan’s Short Stories Martha Jac a Sianco Modern Welsh Poetry Hedd Wyn Siwan Dan Gadarn Goncrit

  12. and finally… 45 miles Distance to Cardiff 60 minutes 32 kg of CO2 http://www.nef.org.uk/greencompany/co2calculator.htm Average time to Cardiff £36.00 Average cost of travel £60.00 Average cost of travel time £96.00 per 1 person car Total Travel Costs

  13. Alison Walker Learning and Development Coordinator Welsh Video Network a.walker@swansea.ac.uk learning@wvn.ac.uk 01792 513519 Welsh Video Network

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