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WebEx as an Educational Tool

Have you heard of WebEx being used for business practices? What about using it for an online school? While businesses all over the world are jumping on board WebEx to facilitate many business activities, it is also being hailed as a modern educational marvel for any online university that wants to give their students more than just a standard education. So if your online school is not a part of this amazing online platform then you may want to encourage them to look into it.

Uses

WebEx can be used for more than just business practices. Below, we discuss some ideas of how an online school could utilize this amazing platform.

Share

With WebEx your online school can share everything from presentations and documents to actual demonstrations of any type of application. And regardless of if you are a student or a teacher, you will find that this “share” resource will be invaluable to your educational experience. A great example of this would be to share a current project with the entire class, or with fellow students.

While normally at an online school this would happen by simply posting your project or perhaps even chatting about it, with WebEx you can share your screen with everyone in the class so that they see what you see. This platform will revolutionize the way you sit in on your online classes.

Create

When your online school utilizes WebEx it will allow students to create things together like you would in an offline school. As a student you will be able to brainstorm together as a student body rather than a single person that is separated with miles of space in between. In essence what this platform does is allow the online school students and teachers to feel more connected and be more connected than just through a chat platform.

For example, if your online school class is working on a major project, students will be able to witness what is on each others screens at the same time.

Delegate

One of the greatest benefits to an online school would be the fact that both students and teachers can take control of the classes. Rather than just the teacher having all the tools necessary to orchestrate the class this platform will give online school students the ability to shape any classroom time they want. And since having students doing the teaching has been a long time form of learning it will facilitate this educational experience in a way that would normally only been possible in an offline school environment.

These practices and more are already being utilized by major corporations, and have now been picked up by the educational world as well. What this can do for an online school is give back that real classroom experience that many critics of online schools have said was lacking. Furthermore, students of an online school who have difficulty adjusting to a normal online school atmosphere may learn better in such a setting.

How it’s Done

WebEx is able to bring about this experience for an online school by providing an interactive whiteboard and chat experience as well as VOIP technology. So rather than sit and filter down through the traditional posts during an online school meeting you as the student or as the teacher can fully interact with your ideas on the whiteboard at the same time. Also, rather than just reading text students and teachers alike will be able to physically hear and see what is going on in the virtual classroom.

Educational Institutes that Use WebEx

• Fox School of Business for Templer University
• Grades Grow
• Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
• Sachem

Does your institute use WebEx for education? If so, how did it work out? Drop us a comment and let us know.