Audiographic Teleconferencing Project: An Evaluation
Audiographic teleconferencing allows training to take place in several locations concurrently; all sites can receive and transmit information using the technology; and participants can interact live with each other using voice, script and computer graphics. This gives the technology an advantage over other distance learning approaches such as teleconferencing.
The Audiographic Teleconferencing Project had two objectives.
The Project targeted volunteer literacy tutors in literacy programs in the Lakeland and Lesser Slave Lake regions. A test-run of the technology was conducted for the literacy coordinators in May 1995. Informal training was given to two of the instructors prior to a session in June when one instructor previewed a session for the Project Coordinator. The tutors participated as learners in five sessions: two 90 minute sessions on left/right brain held in October 1995 and, in January 1996, three two-hour sessions on learning styles and strategies. Each of these topics comprised a module. Two instructors each presented one of the sessions making up the module on the brain, and a third instructor presented the learning strategies module.
This report addresses the two separate but related Project objectives in two evaluation objectives:
The report begins by outlining the methodology. Next comes the main body of the report in which the findings from interviews and evaluation forms are presented to address the two evaluation objectives. These findings are analysed to develop Observations and Conclusions.