Video conferencing in educational institutions has become an increasingly popular tool for facilitating remote learning, virtual classrooms, and online collaboration among students and teachers. With the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, video conferencing has accelerated, allowing schools and universities to continue providing education to students while ensuring their safety and avoiding the spread of the virus.
With the hybrid becoming the norm, teachers need to be ready to set up their class anywhere, with the flexible technology that can help them connect to students, wherever they’re teaching from today.
With Jabra technology in their toolkit, even snow days and self-isolation won’t be a barrier to sharing knowledge with students. Combine PanaCast 20, our premium personal video conferencing camera, with the Speak 750 speakerphone for the perfect hybrid teaching solution.
The Shift from Conventional to Hybrid Learning
The shift to hybrid learning has posed several challenges for both teachers and students. Teachers must adapt to new technologies, teaching methods, and time management for in-person and online students.
Students face difficulties accessing technology, home distractions, and balancing school work with their personal lives. Some students need help with motivation and engagement in the virtual environment, while others miss the social interaction and support of a physical classroom. Addressing these challenges requires effective communication, advanced technology, and a flexible approach to teaching and learning.
Technology Facilitating Education
Equipping classrooms with technology has several benefits for both students and teachers. Technology can provide students with interactive and engaging learning experiences that help them to retain information better.
It can facilitate better collaboration and communication between students, allowing them to work together on projects and assignments in real time. Furthermore, with technology in the classroom, students have access to a vast amount of information, resources, and educational tools that can enhance their learning. In addition, to live virtual classes, video conferencing can be used for one-on-one meetings with teachers, tutoring sessions, and group study sessions. This can improve student-teacher communication and give students the support they need to succeed in their coursework.
Incorporating technology in the classroom can transform how students learn, and teachers teach.
Video Conferencing: Making Education Accessible
Video conferencing technology has become essential for facilitating online learning and communication. The benefits of video conferencing devices in the virtual classroom include improved interaction, communication, accessibility, flexibility, and collaboration.
Video conferencing enables improved communication between students and teachers by allowing face-to-face interactions and encouraging students to see and hear the teacher. Increased accessibility is another advantage of video conferencing, as students can attend virtual classes from anywhere with an internet connection. Flexibility is also a key benefit of video conferencing, as teachers and students can participate in online classes at their own pace and schedule.
Jabra’s AI-Intelligent Video Conferencing Device
Intelligent video – that is, video technology powered by artificial intelligence (AI) – can solve many of these issues. In addition to high video quality, Jabra PanaCast series have many features that provide a seamless learning experience in both the virtual and physical classroom. With Intelligent Zoom and Virtual Director, intelligent video solutions can frame the image solely on the speaker so that it’s optimized for the viewer. Similarly, edge AI enables whiteboarding features to automatically capture and display the whiteboard in a simultaneous dual stream, so that any students joining in remotely can see in real-time just as if they were in the room. And with picture-in-picture – a function which can stream a smaller live video within the main stream of the camera – a biology teacher can dissect a frog and explain to the students what she is doing without needing to constantly readjust the camera.
Securing the future of learning
There are many benefits to embracing a more flexible and tech-enabled approach to education at all levels. Regardless of where students will be learning in the future, technology will connect them to a personalized and immersive education experience.
Jabra PanaCast is completely unique in the market, giving your Education customers the opportunity to recreate an in-person learning experience, while maintaining the necessary social distancing guidelines.
By understanding how technology is linked to how we organize and structure the education experience, we can create learning environments that serve the best interests of students by bringing out the best in both them and in their teachers.
