Fahad AL-Rawahi (57737).

Khalid AL-Saadi (63530).

• Definition• Features• Limitations• DE Support

A product developed by Microsoft Corporation that enables groups to teleconference using the Internet as the transmission medium.

NetMeeting has been called “theking of the hill for client-side collaborative computing on

IP networks.”

NetMeeting enables us to:

• Conduct conversations via text in real-time with one or more people.

• Use graphic information during NetMeeting .

• Share applications during a conference with one or more NetMeeting users.

• Conduct real video and audio conferencing.

• very easy to use and cheap.

• Computer has to meet many hardware requirements to work properly.

• The connection may gets lost in the middle of a conference.

• There are often temporal delays in the audio, especially when other features are used at the same time.

Video Conferencing:• supports the process of

building a learning community for isolated learners

• learners can meet online regularly to complete various tasks

Text-Based Chat: To support discussionbetween teacher-student andstudent-student.

Electronic whiteboard :

• negotiation of meaning in task completion as well as constructive learning.

:Application SharingA user can share a program running on one computer with other participants in the conference.

“e.g. share a word processing application to collaboratively edit the same document at the same time”.

software demonstration

on time learning activity

Collaboration

• File Transfer: To support sharing

resources between remote teachers and learners.

Time of interactionSynchronous

Asynchronous

Type of interaction

Student-student

Student-teacher

Student-content

Student-machine

Learning styleGroup-based

Self-based learning

Flexibility

Anytime

Anyplace

Ease of access/use

Speed

Development

Feedback

Delivery

InstructionStand-alone medium

Multimedia support

CostCost effectiveness