Video Conference in UTP Learning Activities

As we are in the 21st Century, several events have dramatically changed the environment
of higher education In the Malaysia, and elsewhere in the world. Video conferencing has
getting more attention among educators due to its effectiveness that can be used in
distance education settings. Video Conferencing is a real time communication and is
designed to support two-way video and audio communication between multiple locations.
This rich communications technology offers new possibilities for schools, colleges, and
libraries including formal instruction (courses, lessons, and tutoring), connection with
guest speakers and experts, multi-school project collaboration, professional activities
such as meetings and interviews, and community events. The main objective of this final
year project is to focus on developing a prototype of video confetencing which embed
video and audio as well as slides in a ,single screen. The project also aims to provide a
mobile application which allows users to download videos from mobile. In order to carry
out the whole project successfully, a. thorough literature review has to be done. The
literature review will help a lot in understanding the entire project and the current issues
regarding the video conferencing concept and implementation. This project will use
Dimbim, an open source software as the main platform that offers rich choice oflive and
on demand video conferencing functionality. Moreover, the software can be easily
integrated with Moodie, current e-learning system in UTP. As an additional feature, this
project also will introduce a mobile application where user can download the video from
database archive via mobile. This is another flexibility that this project will put forward.
Based on the literature review and the prototype of video conferencing, the efficiency of
distance learning therefore can be observed. the outcome of this project may be used by
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) as the advance learning process in campus.