Distance learning facilitates the sharing of data and files across geographies while participants are dialed into a toll free or long distance number for the voice communication. However, delivering voice over the PSTN is very limited in its capabilities, such as enabling only one person to talk at a time, and can be extremely expensive between locations. One Internet Classroom Combining Voice and Data Imagine a classroom conducted via the Internet that also had telephone-quality voice capabilities.
Participants significantly benefit from tremendous cost savings.
Almost Like Being in a Live Conference or Classroom Now imagine that each participant has a graphical user interface, providing the list of participants in the symposium, who is currently talking and who is holding up their hand to talk. This new Internet-based conference environment takes us much closer to actually being in a live classroom.