Tool for Faculty Development and Facilitation
Ability to prepare video learning objects and presentations for training faculty. Ability to facilitate learning through the use of video for lessons, lectures, discussion, review. Faculty can access the video at any time from any location; all they need is a web-browser, the internet and authorized access to the secure site. |
On-Line Learning and Distance Learning
Students can be in multiple locations working simultaneously on the same project; chatting, exchanging ideas; connecting to each other, professors, or permissioned experts who may be authorized to participate in the project or assignment.
Students can work in groups on-site or off-site, anytime, anywhere. Assignments can be posted to deadline for review by faculty and/or other students for peer-to-peer learning. |
Faculty and Academic Collaboration and Peer-Review
Video postings for peer-review; uploading footage of academic opinions, discussions, enquiries, interviews, research, findings and more for professional discussion, debate and academic analysis. These videos may be uploaded and viewed by authorized faculty at any time from any location in the world. They can also be archived for future reference or academic use. |
Visiting Professors
Visiting Professors can continue to work with students and peers once they are no-longer on-site. This continuity can continue via video discussions, chat and multiple variations of collaboration to build, strengthen and maintain relationships between academic institutions around the world. Can have a virtual visiting professor by inviting them to upload their lectures or participate in projects or assignments virtually. |
Research, Interviewing and Archiving Tool
Faculty and students can video tape interviews, testimonials, academic opinions and research. These can be catalogued frame-by-frame for use by students or faculty. Annotated audio research notes may also accompany the video files. Faculty and students access the archived video logs and produce instant presentations. This can be done by students or faculty within the same or different archives simultaneously. |
Teaching and Learning Tool for Student Development
Easy-to-learn; easy-to-use professional video tool kit that provides professors with the ability to demonstrate “hands-on” learning and facilitate teaching through video. Students can view these learning videos countless times as they attempt to learn their new skills. They can upload a video of their applications of the learning for review. Students can post lab work that has been video-taped to deadline for review and evaluation by a group of peers or by faculty.
Videos can be used for information transfer, presentations, video-taped lectures, assessment, analysis, arguments, debates and evaluation.
Any number of authorized students and faculty can access the FORscene account simultaneously to view any number of videos. |
Collaboration on Assignments and Projects
Various levels of access are available:
- Faculty to Faculty
- Student to Student
- Professor to Student
- Faculty to Students + Professors
- Faculty to outside experts and more…
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Creation and Enhancement of Learning Objects
Faculty can use video to enhance learning by creating video learning objects for students and to archive these for future use or faculty-wide use. Still photos can also be uploaded to create learning objects in FORscene with audio added to explain and facilitate learning. Video can be combined side-by-side with still photos to also create learning objects – i.e. demonstrated surgery. Using FORscene allows students/faculty to review these learning objects over and over to maximize the learning. Responses can then be posted or discussed. |
Video Library and Archive
Create a repository of video that is searchable and easily accessible by faculty and students at any time from any location. Video can be repurposed to achieve various learning objectives and archived for continued use by an unlimited number of faculty and students.
Continuous opportunity to create new content. |
Faculty Video Portfolios
“Meet the Faculty” Present a 2-minute video profile for each faulty member; create a gallery for work of faculty for students, other academics to view. This would personalize the on-line learning experience. |
Student Video Portfolios
“Meet the Students” Students may be asked to present a gallery of work for potential employers to view in their graduating year. With access only through the academic site. |
On-line Social Network
FORscene allows students and faculty to connect via video which can be dragged and dropped into the chat; this can be used to create an on-line social network to support the on-line learning process. i.e. sporting events; social events; uploading own video + campus-wide discussions; blogs |
