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WiZiQ/Virtual Classrooms - It's all about the Bandwidth - Christopher Dawson on ZDNet Education

by Jagdeep Singh Pannu
Posted on 17 November, 2010

Christopher Dawson, who writes for ZDNet Education just tried WiZiQ and reports that bandwidth is key to the success of online education delivery and consumption. Chris' inputs are pretty interesting. Here's the article for those who missed it: Update on WizIQ/virtual classrooms

Let's share our inputs from our own experience of using the Virtual Classroom

Tags: Zdnet education, bandwidth, virtual classroom, online education

by Jagdeep Singh Pannu posted on 17 November, 2010
This is actually a follow-up post to the first one here: The virtual classroom comes of age, where Chris starts exploring WiZiQ.
by George Machlan posted on 17 November, 2010
Not to blow my own horn, but I may be the head test pilot of this wonderful platform. Also the head of the "crash Test Dummies" brigade. I think you will find that while Team Wiziq are exceptional in almost every way they are, at the end of the day, engineers and administrators. Not pilots. There are some pretty amazing capabilities that they, as non pilots, are not conversant or comfortable in. Having said all of that I will tell you sincerely that I believe there is nothing that this supercool, supersonic, high-speed and low drag VC (virtual classroom) cannot do. I dare you to give me a task and within a day or so, I can come up with a work-around.

That is the positive side. You and most who get on this VC will be wowed by the potential. At some point you will come upon the bells and whistles that are missing. Or, the killer feature that you absolutely-must-have. When you find that it may be a long time (if ever) that your "must have" feature will become available. You will go through a grieving process. When I was your age there was only three steps for greiving, now I guess there are 8 or more. So go ahead and grieve. Feel the hurt and frustration. Experience the sense of loss fully. Cry if you must, but know this...

If you are willing to take the time to really learn this bird. Your dreams are not lost. It will take time and effort. This is not a sweet and narrow Skype-like app. To get everything, there is a price and in this case, iit is unfortunately the sophistication of the user. But, as I said, there are no limits for the daring pilot.

One more down side that I must address. I may need to find a second aircraft (VC) to fly. The realities of world bandwidth and many teacher limitations on willingness to learn a rather sophisticated platform, demands that I offer an alternative. I am looking at a few. I think that your readership will need to keep a small sidearm (a bandwidth friendly app) ready. This massive and powerful weapon system called WizIQ will not serve all of your battle needs.
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