AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH ON OPEN/DISTANCE LEARNING THROUGH WEBCASTING SYSTEM

Michail Giannakos, Ionian University, Greece

The aim of this project is to study the description and the presentation of an original Webcasting system. What makes it original is that during teaching it has the functions as a live Webcasting. While the course is being taught it is recorded with audience several (university) students who are active through the teacher-student interactivity. With this way it covers, at a large degree, the requirements that a live Webcasting covers. At the reception it works as an on-demand Webcasting and therefore it doesn’t have the requirements of a live but the requirements of an on- demand. (sychronise of teacher-student). Such a system is placed within the bounds of distance e- learning. The project is divided in the following sections: distance e-learning, technological requirements for the realization of the original Webcasting, description of the execution process and, lastly, evaluation. More specifically, in the first section, we will analyze the categories of distance e-learning and we will distinguish the steps of the Webcasting process. In the second sections, we will describe the software and hardware that is necessary for the realization of that Webcasting. In the third section, we will point out the details of the execution and in the final section, we will examine the objectives and whether they were achieved. Moreover, we will attempt to specify the points in which Webcasting can benefit the learning process and those in which it cannot.