In reply to Graesen.

You raise a very important point with regard to video collaboration: there is no one size fits all. I completely agree that there are situations where a fixed telepresence system is not the right tool for the job and a software based application is perfectly adequate. And there may be other situations where the opposite is true.

This highlights an important piece in the decision making process - determine the specific objectives you hope to accomplish in deploying video. Is it to connect remote students to a large lecture hall? Is it bringing in guest lecturers to a small class? Is it enabling collaboration between students in many locations? Is it connecting multiple school districts to expand course offerings? My point is, there are many solutions and many applications in how video can be used. Setting goals, developing a collaboration strategy and measuring against those goals will go a long way in insuring that an investment in collaboration is in fact a very efficient way to spend school funds.

Thanks for taking the time to comment!