Vidyo powers new generation of virtual classrooms

ENGLAND, UK: In a recent survey conducted by Vidyo of students who are currently enrolled in universities and higher education classes, 30 percent of the respondents indicated that they will attend a Virtual or Distance Learning classroom in the coming academic year.

Education institutes across the globe are currently embracing VidyoConferencing and its widespread deployment has raised the bar for interactive video communication and collaboration in education.

The long list of Vidyo education deployments includes Carnegie Mellon, Bellarmine, Northwestern, and Emory Universities in the US and Kyushu University in Japan, Porto University in Portugal and Thinking Schools Academy in India, among others.

A large number of undergraduate and graduate programmes at colleges, universities and research facilities use Vidyo's visual collaboration solution for its unmatched accessibility, scalability, quality and affordability. Recent announcements regarding the selection of Vidyo by such renowned academic and research communities, such as Internet2 and CERN provide further evidence of Vidyo's mass adoption.

"The significant number of educational networks and academic institutions that are using our products demonstrates Vidyo's competitive advantage in delivering a variety of classroom workflows," said Dr. Amnon Gavish, Vidyo's senior VP of Vertical Solutions. "There has been a shift from traditional room-based systems that are limited in quality and scalability to more flexible and affordable solutions that are easy to use and can be accessed via public networks on all the latest mobile devices used by students."

With video conferencing becoming more affordable and accessible on laptops and mobile devices, interactive visual communications is becoming more prevalent on college campuses. According to Vidyo's survey, 41 percent of the student respondents said they used video conferencing on a laptop or mobile device (i.e, smartphone or tablet) for some type of school-related activities during the last academic year.

Vidyo for Education is proving to be a functional enhancement to the traditional classroom because it enables students to connect, not only from campus classrooms, but from wherever they are located, on devices that they use in their daily lives.