Distance Education

Introduction

In the last few years, the need of distant education has been felt by many eminent collages and schools. Almost all higher studies in colleges and institutions organize lectures by eminent professionals and subject experts. But it is not possible to accommodate all the students in the lecture sessions across all the campuses. If these lectures are to be organized across all remote locations, the cost goes very high. To reduce the cost of these lectures, broadcasting live lecture across all campuses is a must. With OOHMP platform, delivery of live or recorded lectures through lan, broadband, wireless, MPLS , popular networks technologies, communications among people from around the world are not only limited to speeches any more, but are extending to direct face-to-face vision.        Click here for Demo

Product

OOHMP Shikshak enables education facilitators provide a platform for conducting live distance contact class education program at lowest professional setup cost This product delivers both live and recorded lectures on devices reliably using media formats which are good for streaming and has good quality.

Features

Lecture Studio Setup

OOHMP Shikshak studio captures lecturer live video stream using one or multiple camera. The desktop or laptop output integration with live lecture video stream is mixed used croma technique. The live lectures can be recorded and then uploaded to the recorded lectures database. These can be further used for scheduling of recorded lecturers for students who have missed the lecture. Receiving of video stream from the classroom is optional and controllable. The lecturer can view classroom streams if required. When the number of classroom increases it is not possible for the lecturer to view all the classrooms. By default all classroom communicates using a web-module to ask questions or send questions to the lecturer studio using sms. Only questions which are approved by the moderator will be displayed to the lecturer. The lecturer can see the person name from specific classroom from where the question has been asked. After answering the questions, the lectuer can hide the answered questions

Classroom Unit

The output of oohmp box can be displayed onto a TV screen or monitor or a projector. The display will consist of live or recorded lecture video stream along with questions that are asked by various students. Education establishment logo and a running ticker can also part of video stream. The oohmp boxes are plug and play set top boxes and are minimum maintenance equipments with easily configurable network connectivity setup to connect to your network. Streaming classroom video is optional and requires additional camera equipment and 1MBPS sustained bandwidth.

Content Management Server

The content management server will store all recorded lectures. These recorded lectures can then be pre-send to different classroom. These recorded lecturer then can be played in class only when the web admin permits them. Web admin can schedule live or recorded lectueres, create and display notices, decide on ticker content for oohmp boxes as per course and student requirement. The web admin can receive screen shots of lecturer that are played in the classroom as well as the classroom streams. Classroom box ON-OFF status, disk-space, grouping and ungrouping of boxes to various course groups can be done through this module.

Benefits

Low Cost, Easy Configuation & Maintenance

Compared to video conferring equipments and solutions used for distance education which are costly to deploy and maintain, OOHMP shikshak classroom units are run on low power consumptions set top boxes which have solid state hardware design which are easier to maintain.

High Integrability

Beside the set top classroom oohmp boxes which are ready to use, the web admin module offers updating of classroom layout with easy interface, new users can change layouts in less than ONE faceminute.

Scalability

The oohmp shikshak can be scaled up anytime Add more distance education centers and the server side and the classroom side can be upgraded instanstly