Applications

The purpose of this page is to give you ideas into how videoconferencing might be able to help serve you.

The capability to videoconference to other business, industry, or educational institutions can stretch your horizons immensely. Not only can you collaborate with someone across town, you can collaborate live with multiple sites across the globe!

Please keep in mind not only can videoconferencing bring people to you; it can take you to people. It can serve both you and/or your guest by saving both time and travel expenses.

You can have connections to other universities, colleges, Career Techs, secondary schools, state agencies, and businesses.

There are a multitude of situations where we could be of service to you: just a few of the basic possibilities are listed below:

• Bringing in guest lecturers or helping you lecture to remote sites
• Course delivery to or from multiple locations
• Participation of key people who would otherwise be unable to attend meetings
• Group meeting and planning sessions
• Seminars and workshops
• Joint research by geographically separated researchers
• International classes, or lectures
• Colleague collaboration.
• Electronic office hours with branch campuses
• Computer or video presentations
• Group audio conferences
• Training
• Viewing of satellite and internet programs
• Keynote speeches
• Interviews for faculty or students
• Proposal development
• Demonstrations
• Legal Depositions
• Virtual field trips

The possibilities are endless!

Advantages

The ability to be in two or more places at once is an amazing concept. The ability to bring the world to you live at the drop of the hat is almost unbelievable. The ability to simultaneously see, speak, and collaborate with people all over the world is unprecedented in human history. But, that technology and capability is here today! We do live in exciting times!

Not only can we do far more than ever before, the technology also brings a number of advantages over the standard way of getting from here to there. Just some of the advantages of videoconferencing are listed below:

• It saves on travel costs.
• It saves travel time.
• It’s easier to have follow-up sessions.
• It’s easier to have more frequent meetings.
• It allows participants to remain in their own towns where they feel more comfortable.
• It’s easier to make last minute changes to the conference.
• It keeps you local where you have access to materials you might have forgotten to take with you.
• It’s much safer than traveling.
• It gets you back to your loved ones sooner.

Just the ability to save on time and money alone would be a huge benefit in itself. And yet, videoconferencing gives you so much more!