Videoconferencing and V Guide - Resources and Review

Details of videoconferencing services, strategy, guides, proposals, events, and presentations.
 
A selection of guides addressing different aspects of distance education, including a glossary of terms, evaluation for distance educators, computers in distance education, and interactive videoconferencing.
 
Offers resources on a range of subjects, material on different learning technologies such as videoconferencing and intranets, and links to colleges and key organisations. Events relating to further education are searchable by region.
 
Details of a programme to investigate the impact of technologies on higher education and develop applications in support of the JISC strategy. Several reports are available online. Topics covered include visualisation, virtual and remote environments, cluster computing, collaborative and distance working, videoconferencing, use of IT to support the management of institutions, affordable provision of computers for students, presentation technologies, central timetabling by computer, electronic diaries, and use of a multi
purpose smart card.
 
Summary of the work conducted as part of the DEVICE project, set up to undertake a comprehensive survey of desktop videoconferencing products, and to conduct interoperability tests between the most popular of these.
 
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