How do students use the ITV Technology?
Each ITV facility is user friendly. Technical operations are controlled from a central location at the Sylvania campus. Students push a button on a desktop microphone to speak to their instructor and classmates. The instructor has constant live visuals of every site and students can see the instructor, other students, electronic whiteboard notes, graphics, videos and other selected images on a large screen in their classroom.
Using ITV Technology, students can see and interact with the instructor, in real-time, from a remote location. This technology allows Morehead State University to offer more classes in more locations. This provides more convenient access for students while preserving the ‘personal’ feeling, which online courses sometimes lack. Student use of the technology is simple. They don’t. At least, students aren’t required to push any buttons, move any cameras, or anything. Students only need to attend class and offer the instructor the same respect as in a regular classroom. Students are able to talk normally and participate as they usually would in a traditional classroom. The only difference is that their fellow classmates, and usually the instructor, are on television, broadcasted over a private network, from another part of the state.
