Keynote presentations

• Carol Skyring
  • Visual communication: from Zoopraxiscope to YouTube
• Obadiah Greenberg
  • Broadcast your university: YouTube and the global classroom
• Jon Baggaley, Claus Knudsen
  • The video-conferencing haves and have-nots: an online conversation between Professor Jon Baggaley and Dr. Claus Knudsen

Masterclasses

• Alison Walker, Stuart Henderson, Maldwyn Jones
  • Models of good practice in videoconferencing for learning and teaching
• Mark Childs, Imran Ali, Nigel Thomas
  • Using lecture capture systems

Pedagogy and assessment

• PA1: Geraldine Jones, Gabriele Edwards
  • Student digital media productions, take 2: assessment choice
• PA2: Carla Cornelissen, Ruth Romijn
• The use of video in an interactive learning environment
• PA3: Jeroen Bottema, Tom Visscher
• Video reflection in digital portfolios
• PA4: Hans Bronkhorst
  • Training distance learning tools at a distance
• PA5: Yvonne Crotty
  • The importance of assessment for learning when creatively using digital technology and web 2.0 technologies in a research based masters programme
• PA6: Eduardo Perez
  • The pedagogical role of asynchronous communication in face-to-face and distance education: a comparative study
• PA7: Palle Qvist
  • Video exams and the external examiners: results from a questionnaire
• PA8: Alena Hradilova, Libor Stepanek
  • The use of videoconference recordings database in academic writing classes
• PA9: Maria Hadjipavlou, Chris Comber
• Video conferencing in initial teacher training: does it make any difference in the construction of student teachers’ pedagogical knowledge?  
• PA10: Clive Holtham
  • Achieving the potential of web-conferencing:  lessons from media synchronicity theory
• PA11: Koos Winnips, Gert-Jan Verheij
• Didactic models for the use of videolectures
• PA12: Roy Williams, Regina Karousou, Simone Gumtau,
• Beyond text: interactive and collaborative reflective practice
• PA13: Mark Hoeksma, Ries Sieswerda
• Learning from practice to improve practice in various African cultures
• PA14: Tricia Thorpe, Jane Williams
  • How should we create video resources to enhance teaching and learning
• PA15: Bruce Nightingale
  • Much Ado About iPods: digital literacy and teaching Shakespeare

Tools and content oriented applications

• TC1: Dov Campbell, Kyle Beatty, Dan Crowley, Mary Fran Torpey
  • Strategies and tools for successful video-based projects 
• TC2: Frans Ward, Ivo Reints
• SURFmedia & SURFmedia Core: platform, architecture and features
• TC3: Mark Childs
• "I just don’t get it!” structuring learning in immersive virtual worlds
• TC4: Erik Boon
• Zoep: the engine
• TC5: Stephen Hull
  • Improving the quality of visual media in education, or anyone can make a movie
• TC6: Jan T.Goldschmeding
• Zoep: all your streaming content is only one click away
• TC7: Paul Bonnett
• The JANET Videoconferencing Service – milestones and new VC features for UK education
• TC8: Ton Uffink, Hans Maier
  • The use of an interactive screencas
• TC9: Sophie Alder & Carl Flattery
• Symbiosis (learning science through dance and learning dance through science)
• TC10: Michael Liebe, Mathias Fuchs
  • Ludic interfaces
• TC11: Johan Oomen
  • Video Active: European television heritage online

Projects and cases: implementation and sustainability

• PC1: Olaf Schulte
  • The Opencast Communit
• PC2: David Seume
• iPhone: cool tool for learning?
• PC3: Jean-Marc Dubois, Agnès Larcher, Philippe Isidori
• WebTV and strategic development: an opportunity for our University Media Centre
• PC4: Margunn Rommetveit
• The student as a facilitator in groupbased video conferences 
• PC5: H. Lori Schnieders, Sheila Buckingham
  • Using Skype for supervision of distance field placement with counseling and pre-service student teaching graduate students
• PC6: Hana Katrnakova
  • Communication technologies and acquiring academic and professional 
    communication skills: an interactive learning infrastructure and new methodology
• PC7: Deborah Arnold, Catherine Demangeon
  • Prolonging the enjoyment of light: VITRA and the contribution of audiovisual media to virtual training in glass art
• PC8: Kristi Jauregi, Lex Hermans
  • Video web- communication and 3D virtual worlds: two distinct environments which may contribute to enrich academic contexts for teacher training and foreign language learning and teaching programs
• PC9: Stewart Nixon, Catherine Chambers & Nicholas Watson
  • iTunes U at The Open University: developing an editorial framework and scaleable production workflows: a case study for an online platform
• PC10: Mathias Fuchs
  • Virtual knowledgespaces

People and technology: societal aspects

• PS1: Sally Reynolds, Mathy Vanbuel, Nikki  Cortoos, Helle Meldgaard, Ciaran McCormack
  • Results from the 2008 MEDEA Award
• PS2: Tess Maginess
  • Mentalentity: a preliminary evaluation of a film-based mental health project with rural men
• PS3: Grant Barclay
• Video: a fairy godmother in adult education?
• PS4: Maria Hayes
  • Drawing with light
• PS5: Tim Boundy
• The cultural and educational use of the JANET Videoconferencing Service by UK museums, galleries and archives
• PS6: Rudi Knoops, Sandy Claes, Veronique Vandekerchove
  • Enhancing the educational experience of a museum collection

PA6: Schedule

The pedagogical role of asynchronous communication in face-to-face and distance education: a comparative study

• Eduardo Perez: Stockholm University/KTH, Sweden

Watch this presentation: link to Echo360 capture

From the beginning of the nineties up to the beginning of this millennium, a longitudinal study about synchronous and asynchronous education was carried out in the IT Management programme of the Department of Computers and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University and KTH.

Asynchronous communication, based on a special application of Lotus Notes, was formally introduced as a complement to a distance education programme between Stockholm and Gotland University in 1994. At the same time, the Lotus Notes platform was deployed as a holistic technical platform to support a face-to-face educational programme commissioned by the Swedish Post.

The behaviour and the attitude of students and instructors towards the asynchronous platform were observed during several years. Soon became evident that the level of use of the technical platform, especially the level of interaction among students and between students and teachers showed dissimilar patterns, being much more intensive in the face-to-face, commissioned education.

Different experiments were carried out to test some hypothesis and to develop some theories and explanations about the differences in attitude and behaviour.

The research was based on grounded theory. This paper begins by presenting the facts about the levels of interaction in the two groups, then, some of the preliminary interpretations are introduced and some of the experiments carried out to test the interpretations are presented. Asynchronous communication demonstrated to be important in both settings, however, contrary to what it could have been expected; its use in teacher-students interaction is more intensive in face-to-face education than in distance education.