AIOU Workshops and AI-Enhanced Videotelephony

aiou relies on the LMS system, Microsoft Teams App in which students have to attend workshops and quiz. It is useful for teacher training and student training as AIOU is distance learning platforms so videotelephony is crucial for this system. AI and videotelephony combines to meet this system. This article covers how the Artificial intelligence has revolutionized the videotelephony.

The Videotelephone’s Journey

Even though the videophone was the most widely expected innovation during the late 1800s, right after the invention of the telephone, it did not become a regularly used technology until the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020. The videophone’s long road from invention to successful commercialization is described in this research study according to five stages: invention, laboratory, demonstration, market formation, and successful commercialization. It took the videophone and video calls 142 years to become a success.

AIOU, Pandemic and Videotelephony

During the pandemic situation the videotelephony has developed as it is a blessing during that situations which enable the smooth online education both for teacher and student. It enables the AIOU workshops conduction smoothly for the students who belong to different geographical areas. It can be conducted through Zoom meetings, MS Teams which help in communication globally.

AIOU Workshops and AI-Enhanced Videotelephony

AIOU workshops which are conducted during spring and autumn semesters through Zoom or MS teams with enhanced videotelephony allows the interactive, smooth sessions for every batch. It offers all language subtitles which are helpful for national as well as international students. Student can attend workshop through below link.

Benefits

• Smart Attendance Monitoring: It enables the teachers to recognize students by face for their attendance.
• Emotion & Engagement Analysis: Tutors can check students engagement by their emotions and facial expression.
• Improved learning: It helps the students in improving their learning abilities.

Challenges

There are many challenges for videotelephony in online education system in many countries like Pakistan. Few are reflected below.

• Internet issues: In many areas of Pakistan internet accessibility is very low specially in rural areas.
• Cost issues: These are costly and not every student can afford it.
• Low bandwidth: Low bandwidth issues 2G, 3G network make it hard to be implement.
• Flexibility issues : Many students fail to participate in such learning opportunities due to technical limitations which make it hard to scale such workshops in large scale.

Solutions

• Low-Bandwidth Solutions: It should be solved by authorities.
• Offline Resources: university should provide such as pdf, slides, notes.
• Mobile-Friendly Tools: Tools which are easily accessible by ever student.
• Partnerships: partnership with telecommunication authorities should be encouraged to provide high speed internet to rural areas.

Conclusion

aiou workshop and videotelephony is helpful for workshops, students engagement, their learning output increases. Allama iqbal open university can broad their mission by adding advanced features in this system which will increase quality education.