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Using Multipoint Audio-Conferencing with Teaching Students: Balancing Technological Potential with Practical Challenges

Using Multipoint Audio-Conferencing with Teaching Students: Balancing Technological Potential with Practical Challenges
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Author(s): Nick Pratt (University of Plymouth, UK)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 20
Source title: Applied E-Learning and E-Teaching in Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Roisin Donnelly (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)and Fiona McSweeney (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-814-7.ch014

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Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to explore e-learning and e-teaching from a social perspective in order to show how the use of new technologies, like older technologies before them, must be considered in the light of human activity. It is hoped that such a perspective will allow the reader to better understand how, in one example at least, the use of new technology and the context of that use are integral to each other. The chapter considers how multipoint (i.e., multiple people) audio-conferencing might be used with higher education (HE) students undertaking work- or placement-based learning at a distance from their university base.

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