This Help Sheet (1) has been written to support speakers develop good teaching and presentation practice in their use of video conferencing technology and is also relevant for web conferencing.
It invites such speakers to consider ways in which the use of the technology to support communication with remote audiences might impact on definitions of good practice developed in face to face contexts.
The guidance points were gathered from generic literature on videoconferencing then trialled within an international videoconferencing seminar series run by SWAP in 2005 as part of an e-learning project funded through the Joint information Systems Committee's Distributed Elearning Programme via the Higher Education Academy strand.
For most participants involved in the series the experience was new so there was an explicit recognition of the learning involved which has informed this Sheet. A number of suggestions and observations are provided below grouped into different headings.
