eTutorials with voice groupware: real-time conferencing to support computing students at a distance

Authors:
Lucia Rapanotti;Canan Tosunoglu Blake;Robert Griffiths
Affiliations:
The Open University, UK;The Open University, UK;The Open University, UK
Venue:
Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2002

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Abstract

This paper reports on an investigation into the use of real-time voice groupware to support students on a computing course offered by the Open University, UK. The main objective of the investigation was to assess the feasibility and pedagogical advantage of deploying synchronous conferencing technology on a large population computing course to complement existing face-to-face and asynchronous online support for its students. In this paper we report on the findings from such an investigation, and draw a number of conclusions and recommendations covering feasibility, scalability and best practice in the use of voice groupware for eLearning.