Zoom Your Classroom! Finding the Best Tools to Meet with Your Students and Colleagues Online In and Out of Your LMS

Michael P. MyersAssociate Professor and Chair of Health Sciences National University, San Diego, California

mmyers@nu.edu

http://mpmyersphd.wikispaces.com/HICE

Web Conference –vs– Video Conference

web conferencing used for content sharing

video conferencing focused on provide face-to-face interaction

the difference between these two conferencing tools is blurring

web conferencing applications now add two-way video capabilities and video conferencing now includes the ability to share content and present

What does this mean for faculty who want to meet each other to work and with students to learn?

What we all want …

Three main manufacturers in the game –1. Cisco (Tandberg)2. Polycom3. LifeSize

Price: $100 per desktop user to well over $100,000 to connect a work team of about 40 people

What we have…

We make do with connecting faculty, staff, and students with a myriad of setups and technologies. Lots of players in this market …

What we have…

Let’s focus on three …

What we’d like to have … We need… a workable type of desktop videoconferencing

• Each user attends the videoconference using his or her desktop or laptop or tablet or smartphone with a webcam –

• Combines HD videoconferencing, mobile collaboration, and simple online meetings

Easy to use so that it requires no trainingRecording capabilities (MP4)Allows up to about 50 to 100 participants (at

least 10 or so on camera) Screen sharing, annotation, private and group

messagingdesktops, laptops, tablets and mobile devices,

and maybe room conferencing systemson-demand meetings and scheduled meetingsPrice: Under $10 per desktop user per month

Adobe Connect

Adobe Connect

Adobe Connect

Adobe Connect

Adobe ConnectA workable type of desktop videoconferencing

• Each user attends the videoconference using his or her desktop or laptop or tablet or smartphone with a webcam –

• Combines HD videoconferencing, mobile collaboration, and simple online meetings

Easy to use so that it requires no trainingRecording capabilities (MP4)Allows up to about 50 to 100 participants (at

least 10 or so on camera) Screen sharing, annotation, private and group

messagingdesktops, laptops, tablets and mobile devices,

and maybe room conferencing systemson-demand meetings and scheduled meetingsPrice: Under $10 per desktop user per month

Collaborate

Collaborate

CollaborateA workable type of desktop videoconferencing

• Each user attends the videoconference using his or her desktop or laptop or tablet or smartphone with a webcam –

• Combines HD videoconferencing, mobile collaboration, and simple online meetings

Easy to use so that it requires no trainingRecording capabilities (MP4)Allows up to about 50 to 100 participants (at

least 10 or so on camera) Screen sharing, annotation, private and group

messagingdesktops, laptops, tablets and mobile devices,

and maybe room conferencing systemson-demand meetings and scheduled meetingsPrice: Under $10 per desktop user per month

www.zoom.us

HICE 2015

ZOOM recordingsCloud based and camera friendly

ZOOM – What Does it Look Like in the Online Classroom?

ZOOM recordings –statistics class

ZOOM recordings –statistics class

ZOOM recordings –statistics class

ZOOM recordings –File Size

ZOOM – How it works

ZOOM – How it works – Schedules automatically in Outlook

ZOOM – How it works – deploys in your Outlook calendar

ZOOM – How it works –deployment in the LMS

ZOOM

ZOOMWe need a workable type of desktop

videoconferencing • Each user attends the videoconference using

his or her desktop or laptop or tablet or smartphone with a webcam –

• We need to combine HD videoconferencing, mobile collaboration, and simple online meetings

Easy to use so that it requires no trainingRecording capabilities (MP4)Allows up to about 50 to 100 participants (at

least 10 or so on camera) Screen sharing, annotation, private and group

messagingdesktops, laptops, tablets and mobile devices,

and maybe room conferencing systemson-demand meetings and scheduled meetingsPrice: Under $10 per desktop user per month

ZOOM Working ExampleHow do you run 3 classrooms simultaneously across the state of California for a clinical program in Radiation Therapy?

How do you run a program with only about 4 to 6 students in each remote location?

How do you create that feeling of having an instructor in the classroom with you?

---use ZOOM and its ability to do dual monitors for the camera views!

Problem Clinical sites are becoming scarce as hospitals specialize and close - A recent study* in California found that from 1999 to

2010, 48 emergency departments closed in California, including 26 entire hospitals

Clinical programs are closing as well - smaller multiple locations exist, but there is no way

for most Universities to reach them

* Health Aff August 2014 33:81323-1329

Solution Unite Radiation Therapy clinical sites using technology

The goal is to replicate the synchronous class experience across 3 main sites (San Diego, Costa Mesa, and Sacramento)

Students must feel like the teacher is in the room with them

We were able to successfully do this with ZOOM

Our Zoom Set up

ZOOM’s Dual Display Allows 4 camera viewing

Sacramento

campus

San Diego campus

Instructor View

Costa Mesa campus

The Instructor View

The Student View

ConclusionsFor us – Zoom offered the best features for the money

Best attribute – ease of use - no training!

Solved our problem of connecting 3 small classrooms

The Future??? -many systems (including collaborate) are starting to look and feel a lot like ZOOM

AcknowledgmentZoom suggested to us by HICE AttendeeJohn C Ittelson, Professor Emeritus, CSU Monterey Bay

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