Title :
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
fDate :
Oct. 30 2012-Nov. 2 2012
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;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), 2012 World Congress on
Conference_Location :
Trivandrum
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4806-5
DOI :
10.1109/WICT.2012.6409068
