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Until there’s teleportation… there’s always videoconferencing
Alison WalkerLearning and Development Coordinator
Welsh Video Network
Welsh Video NetworkSupport Centre:
Technical Support
Learning and Teaching Support
What is the Welsh Video Network?
But do people use it?
Average 78 conferences per month
630 hours
386 conferences (January – May 2009)
Interviews
Meetings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNbXwoQ-rXo
Centre for Welsh Medium Higher Education
Aberystwyth University
University of Glamorgan
Script Writing
Shared Teaching Load
Guest speakers
face-to face element
Next year….
Online exercises
12 Subject Network Panels
Project team Meetings
…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
MA Ancient History and Classical Culture
MA Lifelong Learning
Swansea University
Pembrokeshire College
…participating in the lectures
that I would not otherwise have been able to.
…am impressed with using
videoconferencing and would
definitely use it again
without video conferencing I
wouldn’t have enrolled on this course
The course is quite intense and the
additional travelling time, of well over 2 hrs each week, would have
made attendance impossible
Never underestimate…
The Importance of the Tutor
Variety of teaching strategies
Confidence with the technology
Creating a single group
Use of resources
The Role of the learner
Confidence with the technology
Prepared to participate
Independent learner
Local Support
Higher Education Link Project
Admissions Tutors
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.
WVN HELP
But I won’t use it for distance learning…
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
£60.00
45 miles
60 minutes
£36.00
£96.00 per 1 person car
and finally…
Distance to Cardiff
Average time to Cardiff
Total Travel Costs
Average cost of travel
Average cost of travel time
32 kg of CO2
http://www.nef.org.uk/greencompany/co2calculator.htm
Alison Walker Learning and Development Coordinator
Welsh Video Network
01792 513519
Welsh Video Network
