MOREnet has developed a quick reference matrix to help customers determine which solution — e-Conferencing or videoconferencing — is appropriate for their needs.
| Task/scenario |
e-Conferencing |
Videoconferencing |
| Multiple people at a specific site want to meet with a separate group of people for a discussion. |
|
X |
| Ten superintendents at ten separate locations from around the state want to meet and discuss items and share documents. |
X |
|
| Instructional support: Remote contact with institutions, reference assistance, remote site instruction, test preparation, virtual field trips. |
|
X |
| Delivering instruction to home-bound or specific populations, alternative high school situations. |
X |
|
| Faculty and staff development: professional development, technical training, curriculum development. |
X |
X |
| PC troubleshooting: share applications and desktop; change or capture configurations. |
X |
|
| Four high schools from around the state want to share a foreign language instructor, to meet Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. |
|
X |
| Student services: counseling, recruitment, marketing, orientation, testing. |
X |
X |
| A librarian wants to hold a seminar with other individual librarians throughout the state about an interesting new online periodical database. |
X |
|
| Healthcare Networks: non-critical examinations of extended-care patients, consults. |
|
X |
| A large organization based out of an urban community wants to educate individual new employees on company policy via PowerPoint presentation. These new employees are located in rural satellite offices throughout the state. Daily updates, ad hoc issue resolution. |
X |
|
| Chancellors from four different colleges, geographically dispersed from one another, want to meet. Administrative and working group meetings where face-to-face contact is important. |
|
X |
| Business: CEO and regional meetings, board meetings. |
X |
X |
| An individual wants to deploy a slide show presentation to 50 individuals, located throughout the state in geographically dispersed areas. Public health and safety personnel: Training medium-sized groups. |
X |
|
| A meeting among five remote sites is planned, with each site hosting 100 participants in an auditorium-style building, for a total of 500 participants. Community Resources: public hearings, public testimony, town hall meetings, board meetings. |
|
X |
| Law enforcement arraignments, risks in transporting. |
|
X |
