In recent years, although China's education industry has made great progress, there are still many shortcomings, such as unbalanced development between regions, uneven quality of teachers in various regions, relatively sufficient teachers in economically developed areas such as coastal areas, relatively high education and teaching standards, and serious shortage of teachers in poor areas such as mountainous areas. How to make full use of the educational teaching and teacher resources in other regions or schools, how to improve the quality of the whole people through education, and other issues have prompted the reform of educational methods. At the same time, the pattern of global information integration makes the education system must also closely follow the construction of information technology. How to use information technology to comprehensively improve the quality of school running and cultivate the next generation of pillars for the country is a long-term research topic for the school.
Under such a large social background, video conference system has become an important way to improve the level of national education, and has soon been applied to all corners of the distance education system. The remote video conference system has unique advantages in solving the problems in campus meetings and remote teaching. Compared with the traditional teleconference or television teaching, the high-definition video effect and multi application sharing of the video conference system enhance the interaction between the conference and teaching, and greatly improve the quality of the conference and teaching.
1. Demand for video conferences in the education industry:
- The leaders of the Education Bureau held a meeting with the principals of the schools. The travel expenses, board and lodging expenses were very high, wasting resources? Daily administrative meetings are held between campuses, and participants run back and forth, wasting time?
- External teachers are not easy to hire because of their long journey and high cost. It is difficult to share excellent teacher resources? The traditional TV teaching is passively accepted by students, unable to interact with teachers, and the teaching quality is low?
- Due to the distance between universities, for example, it is difficult to hold academic exchanges with foreign universities?
2. Feishimei Education Video Conference Solution:
As an advanced way of communication, network video conference has become an ideal choice to solve the above problems. The distance education system can bring a new teaching mode to the education industry, and can also hold various academic exchanges and seminars, administrative meetings, daily meetings, etc. To sum up, it is mainly divided into administrative meetings, distance education, academic exchanges and other aspects.
(The topological diagram of the remote video conference system tailored by Feishimei for the education industry)
As shown in the above figure, a hardware video conference MCU server is set up in the municipal and county education bureaus to be responsible for the forwarding of network video conference data, and a central conference room is set up. Hardware video conference terminal equipment is used to ensure the ease of use and stability of the conference room. In each school (sub campus), a special network video conference room can be built, and hardware video conference terminals can be used to ensure ease of use and stability for administrative meetings and academic discussions at all levels; At the same time, several special classrooms for distance education can be built as required, and hardware video conference terminal equipment can also be used to access to ensure the effect, which can be used for non local teachers/students to listen to lectures and other situations. At the same time, video conference solutions for travel personnel to participate in video conferences can be provided, that is, access through laptop computers or mobile phone terminals, Realize cross regional barrier free real-time video conference function.
The main venue of the video conference of the Education Bureau: equipped with 1 carrier level hardware video conference MCU, 1 video conference terminal equipment, 1~2 video conference cameras, 1 set of display equipment such as projector or TV, and other auxiliary equipment such as audio and microphone.
School video conference branch venue and remote training classroom: 1 video conference terminal equipment, 1~2 video conference cameras, 1 set of projector or TV and other display equipment, microphone and other ancillary equipment.
Students and teachers access video conference: 1 laptop, 1 camera and 1 headset.
Teaching administration meeting
The Executive Council is an essential part of the daily work of the education system. However, with the development of the education industry, there are more and more administrative meetings at all levels, and the communication between schools is more and more frequent. In particular, the teaching staff of each school has gradually grown, and it is more and more troublesome to organize meetings at ordinary times: there is a lack of suitable venues. The number of teaching staff in an ordinary middle school is about 200-300. For schools that do not have large enough meeting rooms, they can only rent meeting places outside or convey meeting instructions at different levels, which is inefficient and ineffective; For the exchange meeting between schools or the meeting held by the Education Bureau, there are also many problems in the gathering and positioning of personnel, such as the lack of familiarity with the meeting place, or various emergencies. Participants often arrive late or even absent, which affects the effectiveness of the meeting.
(Feishimei video conference system topology, specially designed for the education administration system)
For the administrative video conference of the education system, the staff of the Education Bureau will attend the conference in the central video conference room of the Education Bureau, and people from different schools will attend the conference in the local video conference room. Through the video conference, "face-to-face" communication can be achieved; For the administrative meeting on campus, people from different campuses can attend the meeting in the local conference room, while those on business can access the video conference by logging into the remote video conference system through their laptops. The problems mentioned above can be solved through online video conference: 1. It is no longer necessary to rent another place. You can access the video conference room for meetings by logging in the account on the office computer; 2. Personnel do not have to rush to the designated venue to attend the meeting, which saves time, avoids lateness and absence, and improves the quality of the meeting.
- Daily administrative video conference of education system
- Daily administrative video conferences and intercollegiate fellowship activities between different campuses
- Video conference communication meeting between school and parents
Academic exchange/teaching seminar
Academic exchange and teaching experience sharing have always been activities held between schools. In order to strengthen academic exchanges and improve teaching level, many schools have spared no effort to send their teachers to other places to study and exchange. However, many school leaders also found that the effect of this method was not good: first, there was a certain cost of going out to study and exchange. Three days of domestic inter provincial travel, travel expenses plus accommodation costs, a person often costs three or five thousand yuan. If you are sent abroad to study, the cost is even higher; Secondly, because of the long journey, the dispatched teachers also consume their own energy. When they arrive in the destination city, they are prone to feel tired and tired and affect their work efficiency due to luggage dragging, hotel accommodation and other issues; In addition, this can only be a relatively big thing for communication, and some urgent issues can not be communicated in time, affecting the efficiency of academic research.
(The topological diagram of the video conference system created by FSM for academic exchange)
Local participants will attend in the local conference room. Participants from other places can access the remote video conference system with their accounts after installing the network video conference software client at the place where they attend the academic exchange meeting, so as to carry out exchange and learning. If it is a long-term partner, a network video conference room will also be installed in the partner's location, which will have a better effect. In this way, not only the travel expenses are saved, but also the staff do not have to travel around, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
Distance education/distance training
With the rapid development of the education industry, the school running mode has gradually changed with the change of market demand. Especially now, parents pay more attention to the healthy growth of their children and the improvement of their academic performance. They all want their children to get better education. For China with a large population, educational resources are limited, and even fewer people can enjoy the education of excellent teachers through "face to face". However, traditional distance training is similar to television teaching. The basic form is that lecturers sit in front of cameras to lecture and students sit in front of television to listen. There is a lack of interaction between teachers and students. Where students do not understand, they cannot tell the teacher and ask the teacher to repeat. Teachers can't collect any feedback from students and can't improve teaching quality. In this case, the establishment of an interactive distance education system and distance training system platform based on video and audio multimedia technology is an innovative model that allows more students to enjoy excellent educational resources.
(Feishimei distance education system topology)
Teachers give lectures in the school's network video conference dedicated remote training classroom, while students from other places log on to the network video conference software system at home to listen to the lessons. The new "face-to-face" remote teaching mode can be realized without leaving home. Moreover, the multimedia sharing, electronic whiteboard and other functions of the network video conference software completely change the traditional video teaching in which teachers teach according to the script The situation of students' passive listening enhances the interaction between teachers and students. Students and teachers communicate directly and can solve problems on the spot if they don't understand.
3. Features of Feishimei distance education system solution:
- Improve meeting efficiency: communicate between classes through remote video conference system; Administrative video conference inside the school; During the exchange meeting between the school and the school, there is no need to gather teachers and students to travel by car or send representatives to go back to school to communicate. Compared with the traditional assembly meeting and sending representatives to attend the meeting, it saves the work of arranging the meeting place, dispatching participants and arranging accommodation. It saves time for the school to arrange meetings and improves work efficiency.
- Saving teaching cost: the cost of renting the venue during academic exchange; Reimbursement of board, lodging and travel expenses for external lecturers during training is a problem that the school needs to consider in cost control. However, all of these can be solved by means of distance learning. Remote teaching through the network video conference system does not require the rental of space, nor does it generate travel expenses. It greatly reduces the teaching cost.
- Improve school running quality: remote video conference system can share more excellent educational resources, improve teaching quality and other advantages. In today's extremely competitive education industry, how to maintain the healthy operation of the school while casting pillars for the country is a long-term topic for the school. The video conference system, with advanced and efficient technology and scientific and practical means, provides a set of practical options for the school.
