Case study: Affordances of using multi-HD technology for distanced co-teaching in Hong Kong secondary schools

Author

Chan, Britney ; Alan Lam ; Li, Luoqing

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Educ., Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 30 2012-Nov. 2 2012

Firstpage

162

Lastpage

166

Abstract

Advancement in HD video communicating technology creates a new mode of co-teaching among teachers and students of secondary schools geographically separated in Hong Kong. We have invented an award winning HD video management system for video and audio communications via Internet. Accordingly we have conducted a 3-month mini-research project to study the affordances of using such technology for co-teaching in Hong Kong. We observed a number of positive affordances in the preliminary study and positive impacts on students, teachers as well as principals. Interestingly, we observed certain "Peer Learning" phenomenon among students from different schools during the co-teaching in addition.

Keywords

Internet; distance learning; educational institutions; groupware; high definition video; teaching; video communication; HD video communicating technology; HD video management system; Hong Kong secondary schools; Internet; audio communications; collaborative teaching; distanced co-teaching; multiHD technology; peer learning phenomenon; time 3 month; video communications; Communications technology; HD technology; co-teaching; collaborative teaching; distance learning; peer learning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), 2012 World Congress on

Conference_Location

Trivandrum

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4806-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICT.2012.6409068

Filename

6409068