Interactive Satellite Education Network  − 3 February, 1983

Submitted by:  Anne McCallister

IBM creates an Interactive Satellite Education Network!  Introduced in Austrailia, the instructor teaches from a studio with several cameras and a microphone for transmitting information to a classroom.  "A video encoding system at the studio site digitises, compressess and encrypts the signals before transmitting them by 2 Megabits/second satellite links to the recieving classroom (Johnson)."  The classroom consists of two televisions and a sound system.  Each student has a student response unit (SRU) attached to their desk to respond to the instructor.  There are also extra buttons on the SRU for students to answer multiple choice questions from the instructor.  There were many advantages discovered through Interactive Satellite Education Network:  instructor no longer has to travel to different cities to teach the same course, more time to prepare a course, and less traveling costs. 

Johnson, Paul.  (2003).  Introduction to the IBM Interactive Satellite Education Network.  Ed Tech 88-IBM Education.  Retrieved February 3, 2007 from:  http://www.ascilite.org.au/aset-archives/confs/edtech88/johnson.html

Baker, J. (1997-2007)  Distance Education Timeline.  Bakers Guide to Christian Distance Education.  Retrieved February 3, 2007 from:  http://www.bakersguide.com/Distance_Education_Timeline/


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Comments:

DistEd (March 2, 2007. 04:12pm)

submitted by: Anne McCallister -
The beginning of using an Education network! An exciting time in the field of education! Teacher's have always said that we need to share our creative ideas throughout education. Also, it is every helpful to understand different cultures and through the satellite we can introduce students to various cultures and expose them to amazing new adventures. Instructors will not have to travel anymore, they may set up a system via satellite to teach. Again it took a lot of time to impliment and still today it's difficult to get all of the equipment to use a satellite network, but equipment is starting to come down in price and will be more available to use. Unfortunately, education must wait until the price comes down to afford the new technology. It's amazing to me the interaction that students can have through an online class. We have come a long way.







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