Audio teleconferencing is the use of two-way voice communications equipment to allow geographically dispersed people to communicate in real time. The first form of audio conferencing was the telephone conference call where typically a group of telephone users provide a list of their names and phone numbers to a central telephone exchange, and then at a pre-arranged time the exchange calls each party and connects them to a shared telephone conversation in which all participants can speak to and be heard by all the other participants.
Bridges allow many different conferences to run concurrently.
Now audio teleconference is an extension of this. Two-way conversations use telephone lines or satellites to connect individual or groups of people from many different locations. It is frequently used at the secondary and post secondary levels of education. The purpose of this module is to gain familiarity with audio conferencing, and identify and examine instructional uses of audio teleconferencing in post secondary instructional settings. 1 Distinguish between audio teleconferencing and video teleconferencing.