Technology is evolving rapidly and nowadays classrooms have greatly changed its way, especially with video conferencing. Video conferencing has become an increasingly demanded and popular tool for business and education over the last few years. We have seen the rise of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Education has changed dramatically, with the distinctive rise of e-learning, whereby teaching is undertaken remotely and on digital platforms.
There are several potential advantages of video conferencing in education and corporate, as discussed more fully below.
Collaboration
One of the simplest advantages of video conferencing is to collaborate with teachers and other students in new ways. Collaboration is always tricky and getting people together in one room is always difficult to manage but video conferencing makes it easier than ever before to host a workshop, teacher training, staff training, or academic conference. This tool can also connect participants from all over the world, making it possible to engage external subject matter experts in the discussion.
Sharing Content
Video conferencing does not only offer to collaborate and chat, but it allows teachers and students to share documents and files in real-time. Video conferencing tools provide the feature of screen sharing if some files are heavy in size and will take time in sharing, but others can see those files on someone else computer.
Enables Students to Record Lectures for Review
The other important benefit of video conferencing is to record the lecture/discussion and review after the lecture and share it with those who were not present in that discussion. Sometimes, students miss the class due to sick leave and they can get benefits from lecture recording videos. Usually, when students are working on assignments, they need a refresher look on notes to complete the assignments. If they have recorded video lectures, they can get benefits from them.
Convenient for Scheduling of Parents/Teacher Meetings
Video conferencing tools making it possible for people to hold meetings at any time from anywhere and eliminate the distance barriers. Schools can always use video conferencing tool to engage parents in the parent/teaching meetings.
Reduces the Cost for Education
The last and most important advantage of video conferencing is that it reduces the cost of basic facilities for education. In remote rural areas where schools have not enough funds to expand the building to meet the need for teaching classrooms because of a variety of reasons. Video conferencing for live class is the best solution that not only reduces the cost but also brings a new virtual world for students to see, hear and learn something they may not know when in a common class.
In conclusion, nowadays almost every educational institution is adopting online learning technologies because it not only helpful for the to optimize the teaching and learning process but also helps them to achieve a competitive edge over their competitors. Hence adopting the use of online learning systems in education require careful planning for implementation if success is to be realized. 360 ELEARNING is a well-known company in providing eLearning solutions to education and corporate sectors around the globe.
