Traditional Approaches to Distance Learning
Video conferencing (room), satellite broadcast
- Poor instructor control (none for satellite)
- Low interaction between students and instructor
- Limited student verification
- classroom atmosphere does not foster student activity
- Little multimedia interaction
- Low content retention
- no associated textual material, visuals not even as good as blackboard
- Very expensive to install and maintain
- classroom adaptations costs >$50K (actual data)
- high network link costs