Evaluating the incorporation of synchronous video services in eLearning applications

A number of platforms are available to support video for eLearning purposes, yet many and diverse issues need to be addressed in order to achieve satisfactory deployment. These issues stretch from video capture to monitoring student attendance and evaluating their feedback. Albeit straightforward to address them individually, they form a chain whose weakest link determines the quality of the entire video presentation. This paper seeks to structure the process for incorporating synchronous video in eLearning, by identifying different area of concern, important goals and their associated factors and constraints. For each goal it provides a set of solutions classified in quality classes thus producing metrics for the evaluation of setting up synchronous video inside an eLearning platform.