Lessons from JSU Experiment
Students liked the job relevant skills taught
Important to have curricula mentor and technology expert at remote site; important to visit 2 or 3 times a semester
Digital Audio/video less stressful to lecturer than speaker phone
“Shy” students are helped by remote format as digital interactions are “personality neutral”
Need to keep to the point -- digressions, which are often helpful in standard lectures, tend to lose students -- help with shared cursor
Need to keep everything synchronized
Chat stores up messages to answer at end of “current object”
Teacher can browse ahead 1 or more foils as “thumbnails”
Experiments were successful but conservative -- we deliberately tried to reproduce “time honored approach” -- we can expect there to be different optimal approach in distance case than in face to face case -- find by more experiments!