On a multimedia expedition with SWITCH
Tele-learning, computer-aided teaching, electronic learning – e-learning has many different names and faces. It is needed wherever people are engaged in learning or teaching efficiently and interactively with the aid of digital media. And the requirements of university staff when it comes to communication and e-learning are equally varied. SWITCH has taken on the task of satisfying these needs.
SWITCHcast
Online Lectures
Listening to an iPod while learning at the same time – impossible? Wrong. The two even complement each other, in fact. SWITCHcast puts lecturers in a position to record their lectures in just a few simple steps. Students can readily load the SWITCHaai-protected contents from the internet in a particularly high quality as a podcast (offline), Quicktime (offline) or Flash (online).
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SWITCHpoint
Virtual Meetings
Communicate in real time with students and research groups right across the world, while simultaneously sharing a document – this and much more is something that is made possible by SWITCHpoint. University staff thus have the option of networking highly efficiently in web and video conferences – with participants from outside the university world too.
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SWITCHcollection
Digital Learning Library
Any lecturer who has been involved in compiling learning materials is faced with the question as to how these materials can be systematically archived at a suitable location and made available to other interested lecturers. In conjunction with the Swiss universities, SWITCHcollection offers the ideal solution for the benefit of all people belonging to universities: a digital learning library for the re-use of learning materials that have been produced.
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eduhub
E-learning Forum
An online platform for sharing and discussing experience, as well as for coordinating issues and furnishing information, all of which is centred on the subject of e-learning – this is what www.eduhub.ch offers, especially for employees in support centres at the Swiss universities and also lecturers. With www.eduhub.ch the members of the e-learning community can ensure that they are always right up-to-date on electronic learning aids.
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Blackboard Vista
Learning Management System
This learning software incorporates all the necessary items: from media libraries, via online courses, right through to chat and blogging functions – with Blackboard Vista, SWITCH offers everything that teaching staff and students expect of a good learning management system.
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SWITCHsms
Send an SMS/Fax
Why not just key in a message via the keyboard to notify a colleague via a pager? Then a short SMS text message followed up by a fax? SWITCHsms makes for the rapid and trouble-free exchange of news.
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Exchanging news
NetNews
Exchanging news with people all over the world, communicating, asking questions and receiving answers straightaway – with NetNews, SWITCH provides you with internet access to like-minded people the whole world over. We make sure that you can participate in international discussions via a rapid and reliable channel.
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