Benefits
Benefits of GSDLN Membership
- Access to classes and educational resources located throughout the state, region, nation and world.
- Access to streaming video servers and satellite-based programming.
- Access to online and hybrid courses.
- Access to broadband Internet 1 and Internet 2 services.
- The ability for member sites to aggregate network costs and services and to take advantage of E-rate subsidy.
Videoconferencing technology impacts student learning by:
- Increasing student motivation. The excitement of using new technology and interacting with other students or adults increases motivation
- Improving communication and presentation skills. Students are more cognizant of their speech, listening, and presentation skills over interactive video.
- Increasing their connections beyond their local city or town. Students can form relationships with other students who may be very different from them
- Increasing their depth of learning - students learn from another source other than a textbook.
Additional Benefits of Videoconferencing:
- There is a cost savings for:
- students who do not have to travel great distances for classes.
- teachers and faculty who save driving time when traveling to remote classroom sites to teach
- staff who save driving time to attend meetings
- school districts able to share faculty amongst member sites.
- The ability for people to meet face-to-face when time and distance would prohibit them from meeting otherwise.