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| Learning Methods |  Guided Practice
During all kinds of studies performance the teachers and tutors must be aware of all delivery systems and instructions peculiarities which are under their responsibility.
On practice it means having good experience in delivering material, speaking to the camera, the capacity of using different kind’s techniques and approaches in conveying material through the electronic systems. Types of presentations are also according to the teacher. And the main thing is to evaluate the level of proficiency of students at the time of conference and according to this find the most appropriate method of conveying material.
To reach such a level teachers must experience in using audio, full-motion video, graphics, and text, in front of a live audience, yet still in a non-threatening situation. Strategies such as using fewer overheads and more moving video, interspersing "talking heads" with videos of sites, using hands-on experiments, incorporating text and graphic art, and other guidelines for effective video production are also valuable.
Site facilitators, too, benefit from training programs which emphasize hands-on practice with the equipment they are expected to use. According to statistics and various researches, those teachers who participated in structural training programs and experienced in using modern technique to convey educational material to students are more independent and capable of using high tech in further studies.
Media-based Challenges
The re exist special instructional challenges, which are quite common for many distance education programs. They appear due to the loss of visual detail in videoconferences due to signal compression-especially detailed lip movements. This can be helped by engaging students to or5al answers over the phone as a part of feed back form in study course, and by instructional strategies that encourage frequent student-teacher and teacher-student.
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