The teaching portfolio describes and documents a faculty member’s achievements in teaching. As part of a multi-faceted teaching evaluation program, it provides a rich picture of teaching that can be used for making personnel decisions. It is also a means for self-reflection on teaching, leading to teaching improvement. The links below describe teaching portfolios, explain their multiple functio...

Web-conferencing systems (WCS) are gaining momentum in the implementation of distance learning for young people, especially during and after spread COVID-19. In this regard, it seems urgent to identify technologies education that correspond modern teacher fullest effective, user-friendly convenient all subjects educational process. This experiment revealed most popular formats communication lon...

The role of immediate feedback in-group conversations has received scant attention in the recent literature. While studies from the early 1990’s suggested that “added information” in the form of non-verbal cues would allow video conferencing to “augment” the audio-only conference in terms of effectiveness, stunningly little follow-on research has been done reflective of the current state of com...

The aim of the work reported in this paper is to provide an environment where users exploit the Web as a platform to communicate using simple conferencing tools at the same time that have the memory of that communication registered as structured hyperdocuments for later retrieval an reuse.. We present DocConf, an extensible tool to support Web-based conferencing that provides the registering of...

We review the design and implementation of UltraGrid, a new high definition video conferencing system, and present some experimental results. UltraGrid was the first system to support gigabit rate high definition interactive video conferencing on commodity systems and networks, and we present measurements to illustrate behavior of production networks subject to such real time traffic. We illust...

The use of information technology forms an integral part of primary and secondary education in many different parts of the world. In the past decade, as the price of software and hardware has become more affordable, there is an increasing interest in applying various communication technologies to support collaborative learning. The introduction of Video-Conferencing Learning Environment (VCLE) ...

This specification defines conferencing call control features for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). This document builds on the Conferencing Requirements and Framework documents to define how a tightly coupled SIP conference works. The approach is explored from the perspective of different user agent (UA) types: conferenceunaware, conference-aware, and focus UAs. The use of Uniform Resourc...

Video Conferencing offers a whole new way to teach, learn, and interact. College campuses everywhere are turning to video conferencing (VC) technology as a new way to interact with students. Simultaneously, network administrators are struggling to keep up with ever-growing bandwidth requirements. Multimedia streaming applications, such as video conferencing, can consume large amounts of bandwid...