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Publication Date: 2014-Jan
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Bridging the Students' and Instructor's Experiences: Exploring Instructional Potential of Videoconference in Multi-Campus Universities
Szeto, Elson
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, v13 n1 p64-72 Jan 2014
Videoconferencing was often used to distribute live or pre-recorded lectures to students at remote sites. This paper reports a recent study of videoconferencing as a form of technology-enabled learning and teaching in higher education. Videoconferencing was integrated in a blended synchronous approach to teaching remote and face-to-face students in a multi-campus Chinese university. The study focused on first-year engineering students' learning and instructor's teaching experiences, reflecting the instructional potential of videoconferencing. A qualitative approach to examining these experiences was adopted. The findings inform: (1) the instructional potential of videoconference on transforming instructional performance in a blended synchronous virtual environment; and (2) the learning experiences were characterized in a synchronous perceptual differences between the face-to-face and online modalities. The implications of the findings to utlilise the videoconferencing potential in the context of multi-campus university learning and teaching are also discussed.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Videoconferencing, Educational Technology, Higher Education, Blended Learning, College Freshmen, Engineering Education, Multicampus Colleges, Qualitative Research, Synchronous Communication, Distance Education, Inquiry, Communities of Practice, Undergraduate Students, Grounded Theory, Comparative Analysis, Student Experience, Teaching Experience
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Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong
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