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Videoconferencing Providers
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The Technology-Based Learning Systems Department of the New York Institute of Technology, in partnership with Verizon and the Hitachi Foundation, has created a not-for-profit consortium named the Educational Enterprise Zone. Members of this consortium are content providers who create programming for K-12 classrooms and learning environments that receive the programming, as well as corporate facilitators such as Verizon and Tandberg USA who assist with hardware, software and connectivity needs for the various programs the EEZ® sponsors. Content providers come from a variety of educational, public and private sector arenas. Cultural institutions, museums, research centers and small businesses offer member schools a wide range of curricular programming, allowing the receiving members to meet instructional needs. http://www.nyiteez.org/providers.htm
All content providers are evaluated based on five criteria; capacity(audio and video quality, staffing & instructional support), policies and procedures (fee is commensurate wither services rendered), content (expert presenters using authentic artifacts & primary sources, program is aligned to National & State Learning Standards and requires the application of the highest order of thinking skills to respond), presentation skills (Presenter integrates pre-conference materials into the videoconference effectively) and educator evaluation (program is formally evaluated by educator)