TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Management Summary

1. Introduction
2. Method for evaluation
   • 2.1 Introduction
   • 2.2 Sessions targeted for evaluation
   • 2.3 Participant questionnaires
   • 2.4 Structured interviews with speakers
   • 2.5 Experimenter observation
3. Results
   • 3.1 Background information
   • 3.2 Technology Infrastructure
   • 3.3 Users viewpoint
   • 3.4 Lectures/ presenters experiences
   • 3.5 Participation and Interaction
   • 3.6 Presentation aspects
   • 3.7 Context of results
4. 4 Conclusions and future requirements
   • 4.1 Video
   • 4.2 Sound
   • 4.3 Network connections
   • 4.4 System Stability
   • 4.5 Interactivity
   • 4.6 Sessions and speakers
   • 4.7 Slides
   • 4.8 Camera work
   • 4.9 Screen display
   • 4.10 Control and management
   • 4.11 Concluding remarks
5. 5. Recommendations
   • 5.1 Status of the technology
   • 5.2 Primacy of educational goals
   • 5.3 Presentation and production values
   • 5.4 Need for high levels of interactivity
   • 5.5 Use of broadcast values
   • 5.6 Organisational requirements
6. Acknowledgements

• Appendix 1 - Site descriptions
• Appendix 2 - Programme
• Appendix 3 - Participant Questionnaire
• Appendix 4 - Structured interviews with speakers
• Appendix 5 - Experimenter Checklist of issues
• Appendix 6 - Untreated data from participant questionnaires
• Appendix 7 - Evaluation of technical problems at Madrid Site

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