Virtual Get-together via Videoconferencing

Topic: Live Interactive Video Environments for Online Teaching

Wednesday, November 12, 2003
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Presenter: Lujean Baab, CAPE's Director of Training and Program Development

The focus of this presentation will be CAPE's experience and lessons learned from the Online Learning Interactive Video Environment (OLIVE) Pilot Project.

Even as online learning becomes more and more integrated in education, we continue to struggle with the challenge of creating interactive learning communities in the online learning experience. One way to meet that challenge is to incorporate synchronous learning environments with IP video and audio in a blended technology approach to creating a complete educational experience for distance learners. However, this solution brings its own challenges - those of cost, learning curves, teacher adoption and student satisfaction.

CAPE created a model for partnering member schools to share the expense of licensing an interactive online learning environment, Learnlinc , so as to support the early adopters at an affordable cost. The partnership also allowed participating schools to share lessons learned from the experience in the areas of technical support, instructional design and best practices in the environment. The model was then applied and supported through a pilot originally called OLIVE for Online Learning in an Interactive Video Environment.

Lessons learned from the first phase of the pilot were put into practice in OLIVE:  Phase II. Data from the surveys and from transcripts of meetings, conversations and correspondence was compiled and analyzed to share with all CAPE member institutions and will be discussed during this presentation. Lujean will also share the strategies learned from this pilot project for assisting faculty adoption of new technology and increasing student satisfaction in online learning.

To schedule your campus for this event, please contact your campus CAPE Operations Committee Representative who can Register Online for your site to participate.

CAPE contact person: Deb Degenhart at degenhartd@acape.org.