For many years, the phenomenon of distance learning with interactive
video techniques has been used in many institutions. The latest innovations
of telecommunications technologies, notably compressed interactive video
systems, have become a great source of long distance learning because they
have lowered equipment and transmission costs, making interactive video
affordable for small colleges, businesses, classrooms, libraries and even
homes to use in making presentations and lectures. Despite such innovations
interactive video technology has not proven to be a good source as a
Interactive video is appeals to educators in particular because it
provides education to those who live in remote locations and cannot travel
to the university, especially to disabled students. It is also used to
teach a large number of students simultaneously by one instructor; linked
with other students from different communities, backgrounds and cultures.
For instructors, interactive video is an effective tool in the learning
process because it uses real time or synchronous visual contact between
However, despite so many advantages, there are some limitations to
this technology as well. Interactive video has some disadvantages too. To
begin with it is an expensive technology. This technology is highly state-
of-the-art; it uses audio and visual techniques, that can be difficult for
the instructor to fix in case any problem arises. Although, compressed
video has great advantages in providing education to many students in
different sites, resulting in the expansion of the typical classroom, but
then it also results in bad quality teaching styles and strategies. Another
problem is that instructors have to put in much more time and effort in the
preparation and presentation of information and knowledge and also to
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