8. Video Tape Available of "Global Lecture Hall" Videoconference
of October 25, 1995

A video tape of the "Global Lecture Hall (GLH)"(TM) multipoint-to-multi-point multimedia interactive videoconference on "Affordable and Accessible Global Electronic Distance Education" is now available. The GLH was held on the occasion of the VIth International Conference on Distance Education: "Technology and Distance Education: Sharing Experiences Around the World" in San Jose, Costa Rica on October 25, 1995. Ohio University hosted the videocoferencing center.

In spite of some technical glitches, the GLH was full of exciting demonstrations of the most advanced and cutting-edge desktop videoconferencing technologies. They pointed to the future of global electronic distance education exchange, which is one of the most important uses of the Global Information Infrastructure (GII). The demonstrations were greatly appreciated by viewers around the world. The contents of the video are as follows.

Greetings:

  1. Opening remark; Dr. Takeshi Utsumi, Chairman of GLOSAS/USA and President of the Global University/USA (from Athens, OH);

  2. Greetings: Dr. Don Flournoy, Director of Institute for Telecommunications Studies, Ohio University (from Athens, OH);

  3. Greetings; Mr. Charles Fox, Director of WORLDNET Television and Film Service, U.S. Information Agency (video tape from Washington, D.C.);

  4. Greetings: Dr. Tapio Varis of the University of Art & Design, Former Rector of the U.N. University of Peace in Costa Rica and Executive Advisor of GLOSAS/USA (with PictureTel -- a digitally switched service -- from Helsinki Telephone Company Ltd. in Helsinki, Finland);

  5. Greetings: Dr. Paul Nelson, Dean of the College of Communication of Ohio University (from Athens, OH);

  6. Greetings: Dr. Federico Mayor, Director General of UNESCO (video tape from UNESCO/Paris headquarters);

  7. Greetings: Dr Julio Mata Segreda, National Academy of Sciences, Costa Rica (with ShareVision via POTS from San Jose, Costa Rica).

Demonstrations:

  1. A demonstration of the Multicast Backbone (Mbone) -- text, graphics, image, whiteboard, audio and video -- via Internet with a new video tool named "vic" delivered high-quality live video to viewers using H261 encoding. The demo also included uses of the MBone for distance learning, as in the presentation "Learning to Learn: the Future of Science and Engineering." An "MBone Unplugged" rig combined standard video gear, an inexpensive Indy workstation, wireless microphones and a wireless bridge to create a mobile Internet-based Mbone station. [Dr. Donald Paul Brutzman, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (from Monterey, CA)];

  2. A demonstration of simulated asynchronous computer-mediated Multimedia conferencing (CMMCS) with FORUM via Internet took place between two geographically separated sites in a brief academic exercise dealing with the topic of epilepsy. "Student" and "teacher" interacted with some instruction on the mechanisms of epilepsy and provided each other with in-context links to World Wide Web sites that contained useful reference material on epilepsy. [Dr. Bill Klemm, Texas A&M University, (live satellite from Austin, TX)];

  3. A presentation of the Global Telecommunications University project was given by Dr. Renato Cortinovis, Training Officer of the Human Resource Development Division of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). This demonstration involved a computer slide show given from Geneva, Switzerland;

  4. A nurse training course exchange was demonstrated using ShareVision -- with text, graphics, image, whiteboard, audio, and video (10 to 15 fps) -- via POTS at 9.6 Kbps in a two-way, interactive mode between Ohio University and the Costa Rica conference site. [Professor Jose Brenes; Lic Marta Salazar, Professor at the Nursing School of the Universidad de Costa Rica; Ms. Lucrecia Vasques, student at the Nursing School of the Universidad de Costa Rica; Dr. Kathleen Rose-Grippa of Ohio University and Mr. Jim Miller of SYNECTICS, Inc.];

  5. A presentation of the Global School House project -- sponsored by the US National Science Foundation -- was given with CU-SeeMe (black and white video, 10 to 15 fps, with Macintosh and IBM compatile machines). The presentation included MAVEN audio conferencing via Internet. [Mr. George Brett, Director of the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR) and the project participants (from Research Triangle Park, NC) and others;

  6. A demonstration of KarlNet's 2 Mbps wireless telecommunication technology (spread spectrum) also took place with CU-SeeMe via Internet providing a one-to-one connection for high resolution video and audio. [Dr. Doug Karl, Director of Networking and Communications, Ohio State University (from Columbus, OH)].

Should you be interested in viewing this video tape, please fill out the attached form and return it with your check or a purchase order number.

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Video Tape of "Global Lecture Hall (GLH)"(TM)
(multipoint-to-multipoint multimedia interactive videoconference) for
"Affordable and Accessible Global Electronic Distance Education"
on the occasion of
The VIth International Conference on Distance Education:
"Technology and Distance Education: Sharing Experiences Around The World"

Universidad Estatal a Distancia
San Jose, Costa Rica
October 25, 1995

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GLOSAS NEWS was orinally posted to the WWW at URL: http://library.fortlewis.edu/~instruct/glosas/cont.htm by Tina Evans Greenwood, Library Instruction Coordinator, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado 81301, e-mail: greenwood_t@fortlewis.edu, and last updated May 7, 1999. By her permission the whole Website has been archived here at the University of Tennessee server directory of GLOSAS Chair Dr. Takeshi Utsumi from July 10, 2000 by Steve McCarty in Japan.