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Online Courses
Virtual Learning
Collaborative
Interactive TV
Telecourses
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Interactive
TV
What is ITV?
 Kellogg Community College uses
videoconferencing technology to link classrooms at multiple campus sites
into a shared video-connected classroom. With this facility,
participants at one site can be seen and heard by participants at all
other sites. The system also distributes images of computer
screens, images of documents or objects, and video from videocassettes.
Benefits of ITV
The purpose of this system is to provide courses at convenient locations
for students. Courses offered using the videoconferencing
classrooms typically would not attract an adequate number of students at
a center for the class to engender a good learning environment and be
cost efficient. However, by pooling the students from more than
one site into a video-connected classroom, the learning and cost goals
can be met and the student can avoid the transportation cost and driving
time associated with traveling to a more distant site.
ITV
Training for Faculty
KCC requires all faculty who teach classes using the videoconferencing
equipment receive formal training on the system. The training is
spread over about 15 hours, much of the time spent practicing the use of
the system.
The Learning Technologies group
coordinates the ITV training for faculty. Faculty must attend all dates/times to be certified
to teach ITV courses. Contact Linda Blekking
(x2383) for training sessions and to register.
 System
Description
The Kellogg Community College
system uses the most common type of video-conferencing technology. This
technology is often referred to as H.320 or as PictureTel Concorde
(also known as a codec). One classroom at each the Battle Creek
campus, Eastern Academic Center, Fehsenfeld Center, and Grahl Center
have fully equipped PictureTel Concorde classrooms. These
classrooms have multiple cameras and microphones, a send and receive
television at both the front and back of the classroom, and an
instructor station with a system controller, computer, document camera,
VCR, and VCR.
The Battle Creek,
Eastern, Grahl, and RMTC sites are linked with college-owned fiber optic
cables. The connection to the Fehsenfeld Center is via two leased
T-1 telephone lines. For outside connections, the college has a
T-1 line installed at the Battle Creek site.
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Last updated
June 23, 2004
learntec@kellogg.edu
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