Use the Videoconferencing Adventures guide to locate content providers. Evaluating Courses, Lessons, and Tutoring Videoconferencing systems are often used for distance learning in which the participants are not geographically near each other or for some other reason, are physically unable to meet. If you are considering developing a telecourse or lesson, see Using Compressed Video for Distance Learning for information, ideas, instructions, checklists, instructional strategies, and more. Our distance learning links will connect you to related resources. Schools and community colleges offer classes during off-hours and to students who cannot attend traditional classes.
Community colleges team up with businesses to offer employee training or certification.
Teachers team-teach with remote teachers, sharing subject matter expertise or a unique approach to a topic. Students meet with tutors for enrichment, remediation, or a helpful bit of personal attention. This is great way for businesses to support schools. A librarian offers an introduction to library services and library tour for local schools. In the Nonprofit Prophets project, Century High School students in Santa Ana took advantage of videoconferencing technology to learn Web authoring, to meet with nonprofit organizations, and to collaborate with students at other schools as they built Web pages for nonprofit groups.