The Benefits of Videoconferencing

• Invite guest speakers to share expertise, teaching ideas or to participate in discussions with students.
  
  
• Enrich group lectures and seminars with input from students and lecturers at other sites.
  
  
• Share teaching lessons with other instructors from different institutions.
  
  
• Facilitate inter-institutional cooperation by using videoconferencing that allows students from different institutions to work with on-campus students on projects.
  
  
• Expand and enhance distance-learning opportunities by providing quality instruction from your educational institution to remote locations.
  
  

• Easily create interaction between non-traditional students (those who may live near the campus but are unable to attend all campus-based sessions), instructors and other students using desktop videoconferencing.
  
  
• Bring geographically isolated learners together to meet and work in real-time with fellow students,
  
  
• Share presentations or lectures delivered to students at your school with remote classes from other institutions.
  
  
• Support work-based learners or students on field study placements by using videoconferencing facilities in the workplace.
  
  
  

• Conduct meetings, interview job candidates, give presentations, and meet others without leaving your institution.
  
  
• Attend several videoconference meetings in a single day rather than traveling to just one.
  
  
• Manage your time more effectively by attending and completing meetings in a pre-arranged timeframe.
  
  
• Increase productivity and lower costs by adding other sites to your videoconference.
  
  
• Save on travel, lodging and business expenses.
  
  
• Access and share Internet information by using a laptop computer or projector to share slides, photographs, transparencies, or documents with participants.
  
  
• Enhance communication through face-to-face interaction with others.
  
  
• Videotape your meetings for future viewing.