PEDAGOGY AND PROTOCOLS FOR COLLABORATIVE TEACHING AND RESEARCH THROUGH SUPERJANET AND ISDN IN HIGHER-EDUCATION

The increasing bandwidth on the Internet between universities in the U K has potential for multimedia communications in higher education, for both reaching and research purposes. This article reports on a projec t which developed person-to-person protocols for such communication an d the pedagogic styles employed in a set of eight case studies. The pr oject transferred previous experience with multimedia communications, using ISDN2, between a university and partner schools into higher educ ation. It also transferred experience with the 128K dedicated bandwidt h of ISDN2 to the distributed architecture of 10 megabyte communicatio ns employed in SuperJANET service. Additional new styles of pedagogy, consultation and collaborative development became the most prominent m odes. Styles such as these should assist staff to integrate IT into te aching and learning in higher education.