I did some CRT at a place called Distance Education Centre Victoria<br><br>They did class's for all sorts of subjects. They did run an moodle type system for IT. I did not see every school but im sure if you contacted them they would be more than happy to talk about what they use and how they do things<br>
<br><a href="http://www.distance.vic.edu.au/">http://www.distance.vic.edu.au/</a><br><br>Thanks<br>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 5, 2008 5:51 PM, Caterina Garwoli <<a href="mailto:cgarwoli@shgcoak.melb.catholic.edu.au">cgarwoli@shgcoak.melb.catholic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>><br>Yes I would agree with you on the distance learning at uni.... there is<br>nothing like being present in the classroom. Especially when you are<br>
wanting to learn as a mature age student.<br><br>My husband who works as IBM consultant at home (to pick up kids) while I'm<br>part time in the classroom, manages to attend all sort of conference call<br>meetings around Australia, and also run training course. I must ask him<br>
about the setup one when I find a spare minute....<br><font color="#888888"><br>Caterina<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>Most universities run distance learning programs<br>><br>> Though universities are offering distance ed using LMS like Moodle or<br>
> Blackboard with synchronous and asynchronous text chat, this is not best<br>> practice use of current technology. Latest technology offers real time<br>> voice<br>> and video and even application sharing.<br>
><br>> Paid products like Elluminate and Macromedia Breeze do this quite well and<br>> though the internet requirements at the server are high, at the<br>> participant<br>> end they work with ordinary connections.<br>
><br>> There are a number of free solutions like skype and skype conference which<br>> can be enhanced by youtube videos and blogs. Audio conference servers<br>> (small<br>> server charge) as used in the game world like Teamspeak and Ventrilo are<br>
> worth looking at too. Virtual worlds like Secondlife can be used too<br>> though<br>> I havent seen a case yet that justifies the bandwidth.<br>><br>> I wouldn't look at universities (in general) for best practice, I would<br>
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