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Telecourses and Distance Education
The Media Services Educational Video Group originates and receives distance education courses offered at the UO's branch campuses and partner sites worldwide. Supported technologies include satellite, compressed video, and IP teleconferencing. Live, two-way, high resolution broadcasts nearly replicate on-site delivery.
The primary origination site, Studio A ( 36 Knight Library), is equipped with five large monitors, two remote control cameras, microphones for presenter and audience, VCR, visualizer (document camera), ethernet connection for access to the Internet, phone and fax lines, projection screen, and computer-to-video scan convertor. Other equipment can be added depending on the needs of a particular course. Media Services staff also coordinate receive-site equipment and support at the UO's branch campuses.
If you are a UO instructor interested in offering a telecourse, please call at least 2 full terms in advance to ensure availability and discuss your course requirements and training needs with Media Services staff. It is important to recognize that existing courses may require significant restructuring for the distance environment. We work closely with the Center For Educational Technologies and Teaching Effectiveness Program to coordinate instructional design and faculty training to ensure pedagogical, interpersonal, technical and logistical success.
In addition, the library has recently deployed a streaming media server platform called the Tandberg Content Server. The TCS allows courses utilizing the Tanberg codecs to use the following features:
- Live and on-demand streaming
- Archiving of video calls
- Simple content creation and retrieval
- Stream and archive dual stream video
- Compatible with major streaming formats
For more information contact Michael Majdic.
Maintained by: J.D. Hauger, jdhauger@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 01/03/2008