ISDN Applications in Education and Training

Robin Mason has evaluated a wide range of telecommunications technologies used in a European educational context. While computer conferencing is still the most appropriate medium for home-based students, she sees videoconferencing, audiographics and desktop conferencing as playing an increasingly larger role in other forms of remote teaching and training.Paul Bacsich has spent many years implementing communications based systems for teaching - audio conferencing, audiographics, electronic mail and resource-based systems - using a wide range of technologies including satellite communications and ISDN. He sees a significant future for ISDN in the professional updating sector, with synergy between ISDN-based videoconferencing for lectures and ISDN-based computer conferencing for tutorials.

• Section 1: Introduction to ISDNChapter 1: ISDN: theoretical specification, practical potentialChapter 2: The educational value of ISDNChapter 3: ISDN - strategic issuesSection 2: Videoconferencing applicationsChapter 4: Challenges and opportunities in extending the classroom and the campus via digital compressed videoChapter 5: Videoconferencing in a multicampus settingChapter 6: ISDN-based videoconferencing in Australian tertiary educationChapter 7: ISDN videotelephony in NorwayChapter 8: ISDN videoconferencing for education and trainingChapter 9: A French experiment in distance learning by ISDN: 'Le Visiocentre de Formation'Section 3: Other applications of ISDNChapter 10: ISDN technology in teachingChapter 11: Co-Learn: an ISDN-based multimedia environment for collaborative learningChapter 12: A multimedia environment for distributed learningChapter 13: The integration of ISDN into a multi-functional visual communications network