My introduction there to distance education predates Skype. My first higher-ed teaching position, long ago, was at a school in Maine among the first in America to offer degrees through distance education. More stylistic diversity and specialities come from a larger, global teaching pool.It enlarges the pool of teachers from which students can select.It moves teaching from the local to global.Three immediate answers on the positive side: How does video conferencing shape teaching and learning? Marshall McLuan some years ago offered the medium as answer to what’s the message? My question now: But, really, it’s consumer-level video conferencing. But there are alternatives, FaceTime, Google Hangouts, and Oovoo among them.We call the medium Skype. ![]() At time of writing, Skype is a standard technology for online instrumental instruction.
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