El Paso Community College
Distance Education
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El Paso Community College Distance Education |
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HISTORICAL REVIEW OF VIDEOCONFERENCING AT EPCC
Videoconfencing Distance Education at EPCC began in the summer of 1995. By Spring 1998, the EPCC Distance Education was delivering nine video conferencing classes to distant sites using a bi-directional fiber optic network. Classes were transmitted simultaneously between the Valle Verde Campus, Northwest Center, and Transmountain classrooms and distant sites such as Dell City High School (96 miles), and Fort Hancock High School (60 miles), and San Elizario High School (50 miles), from El Paso.
The original videoconfencing network and systems installation was completed in 1999 with EPCC operating six fully functional distance learning classrooms.
Valle Verde Campus - (Advanced
Technology Center and the "B" building)
Northwest
Campus
Transmountain Campus
Rio
Grande Campus
Mission Del Paso
The first upgrade to the videoconferencing network was completed in the Summer of 2003 with the installation of new Videoconferencing systems from Polycom. The new systems added the ability to deliver VideoConferencing over IP networks (i.e. the internet).
The second major upgrade was completed in the Summer of 2007. The new videoconferencing systems have improved video, audio and can display people and data simultaneously.
Throughout the history of the Videoconferencing program the goal of the Distance Education has been to provide the widest range of educational opportunities to a large geographically dispersed audience in the El Paso Metropolitan area.