A recent study by the video conferencing company, Vidyo, found that 30% of students plan to attend a virtual or distance learning classroom in the coming academic year.
The survey focused on students who are currently enrolled in universities and higher education classes.
Many education institutes are now using VidyoConferencing and its widespread deployment has raised the bar for interactive video communication and collaboration in education.
The list of Vidyo education deployments includes Carnegie Mellon, Bellarmine, Northwestern, and Emory Universities in the U.S. and Kyushu University in Japan, Porto University in Portugal and Thinking Schools Academy in India, among others.
A large number of undergraduate and graduate programmes at colleges, universities and research facilities use Vidyo’s visual collaboration solution for its accessibility, scalability, quality and affordability.
Dr. Amnon Gavish, Vidyo’s senior VP of Vertical Solutions said: "The significant number of educational networks and academic institutions that are using our products demonstrates Vidyo’s competitive advantage in delivering a variety of classroom workflows. There has been a shift from traditional room-based systems that are limited in quality and scalability to more flexible and affordable solutions that are easy to use and can be accessed via public networks on all the latest mobile devices used by students."
With video conferencing becoming more affordable and accessible on laptops and mobile devices, interactive visual communications is becoming more prevalent on college campuses. According to Vidyo’s study, 41% of the respondents said they used video conferencing on a laptop or mobile device for some type of school-related activities during the last academic year.
Drew Eisenbeis, director of technology , computational finance program, Carnegie Mellon University, commented on the importance of Vidyo in the classroom: "Vidyo’s technical capabilities have enabled us to deliver our graduate-level computational finance curriculum to students in an online format while optimising live, interactive communication among students, faculty and each other. This visual connectivity is a critical element in teaching our MSCF program, which is recognised as one of the best of its type in the world."
