AN OVERVIEW OF VIDEO CONFERENCING TECHNOLOGYAS A TOOL FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

ABSTRACT From ancient history, man has been in the habit of making his life better and as a Nation, the passion is the same. Less labour but efficient productivity, minimum stress and yet maximum result, reduced expenses but increased profit. These have been man's paramount objective as an individual, an establishment, an institution, an organization, a community and as a Nation. This project presents Video Conferencing technology which is one of the many offspring of Information technology as being a time saver, a cost reducer, a resource manager and many more. Hence, its vitality in the goal of educational development. The use of an application program (NetMeeting) to achieve a Videoconferencing which is practically affordable by configuring two systems to share information and designing a NetMeeting page for a conference was effectively demonstrated. The basic role of Videoconferendng as applicable to the major levels of education to improve their status and automatically the status of the educational system of the nation as a whole was also looked into.