Audiographic Teleconferencing Project: An Evaluation
The Audiographics Teleconferencing Project was experimental. Everyone involved was new to the technology and the presentation format. Based on the satisfaction of the stakeholders, the Project was largely successful. Importantly, stakeholders are willing to use the technology again. They would like to see a number of issues addressed first however. To this end, several lessons were learned from the evaluation, particularly the interviews with stakeholders. In future, more training and significantly more hands-on practice will be needed before users can feel comfortable with the technology and handle it adeptly. The training should be designed to give users a better understanding of what the technology can do as well as its limitations. Instructors also need extensive practice using the technology because it requires a different approach and different skills from face-to-face or teleconferencing instruction. All stakeholders learned from this Project. Better preparation combined with their obvious enthusiasm to learn and improve will help stakeholders get more out of using Audiographic Teleconferencing in future.