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Interactive Television - (Videoconferencing)
The schedule of available ITV courses is posted here.
APSU interactive
television facilities are
available to university users and the private sector. These interactive
television facilities are also referred to as
videoconferencing facilities.
Through
the use of technology, you can attend classes in your
community--whether the class is being held in the next county or around the
world. This technology allows real time, two-way interactivity with
and between instructor and classmates.
APSU facilities use
Internet Protocol connections in all of their facilities; however, ISDN
is available in one location. Our facilities are available for classroom instruction, staff
and professional development, and inter-institutional or inter-agency
training. The facilities are also available to the private
sector. A facilities rate schedule is available here.
APSU
ITV facilities:
Interactive Television classrooms are located on our main campus in:
1.
Woodward Library, room 118 - a standard classroom (undergoing some
renovation now and not available at this time), seating 16 - 18
students, equipped with a PolyCom 7000. The technology in the
room includes a networked PC and Macintosh, a networked printer, a
document camera, a VCR and a DVD player, a satellite downlink, and a dry erase board.
2. Sundquist Science Complex, room
E118 - smart classroom seating twenty students in a science lab
setting, equipped with a PolyCom 4000. The facility
is multipoint capable and has network connections for additional
equipment. The technology in the room includes a networked PC,
PointMaker, VCR and a DVD, document camera and other gear.
3. AP Center @ Fort Campbell, room 229
- a standard classroom seating 15-16 students, equipped with a
PolyCom 512. The technology in the room includes a PC, document
camera and a VCR. The facility has limited network capability but
upgrades are planned.
4. We also have several PolyCom ViaVideo
units that we use for hybrid videoconferencing as needed. These
desktop solutions are currently used in room to room connections
inside our network for student classroom applications, and
connections from APSU to off-campus sites for instruction and for
research. These are highly portable, inexpensive units that we can
carry with us or ship to an outside user. These smaller units are limited to a
maximum of 384 Kbps connection speed.
APSU maintains a direct connection to the APSU Center @ Ft.
Campbell, and we enjoy a working relationship with several educational
facilities in our service area: For local use, either of our rooms may be
connected to facilities in the Humphreys County Center for Higher
Education, the
Renaissance Center in Dickson, the Center for Teaching and Learning in
Dover or the Lifelong Learning Center in Springfield.
The School of Education has an ITV room that is ISDN capable in the
Claxton building, at this time the room is being considered for an
upgrade that will include adding IP capabilities to the facility in
addition to a major upgrade to the technology in the room. More
globally, our facilities may be connected to any room with the ability
to interface with our equipment, regardless the location.
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