Videoconferencing with Vscene is delivering research, teaching, learning and organisational efficiencies daily, to thousands of users throughout the UK and Ireland - supporting some of the challenges faced by the HE and FE sector. This session will show you how simple it is to use and some of the situations it is used in, including an outreach initiative, started from Bedford School with the University of Sheffield and the Sutton Trust, to run a wide variety of career-based videoconferencing sessions online.

1. Rob Cullis
Benefits and Efficiencies with
Vscene Videoconferencing

2. People
LogisticsEnvironment
£
today

3. People
LogisticsEnvironment
£
today

4. eOutreach
a bit of history

5. delivering events for

6. this is about actual
conversations that may
not happen otherwise

7. this is about actual
conversations that may
not happen otherwise
It was fantastic! I'm totally hooked!
Belle Vue School, Bradford
Thank you, we really enjoyed it, the
students were buzzing afterwards.
Whitley Academy, Coventry

8. VC
Belle Vue
Girls’ School Harris
C of E
Academy
Cotham
School
ACS Cobham
PC VC
PC
PC
an example from Bristol

9. 4h 6min
216 miles
2h 11min
103 miles
2h 24min
111 miles
17h 22min

10. Cotham
School
it also makes
sense locally
VC
PC

11. .... Yes they enjoyed it. I think they found the fact that it was a webinar novel
and exciting.
.... They liked the discussions and the fact you could see the other schools.
.... It was great having the Q&A at the end as they could find out more about
careers.
school feedback

12. VC
VC PC
and not just the UK
VC

13. what’s in it for
the university?
.... Events can be designed to support face to face work in specific regions,
maintaining an ongoing, achievable Widening Participation and/or Student
Recruitment relationship with target schools.
.... Events can seek to engage relevant schools that are geographically
difficult to reach;
.... Events can seek to engage specific groups of schools, such as
underperforming schools, high performing schools or schools with high pupil
premium, for example;
.... Events can introduce students to subject areas and lead on to summer
school engagement, open days, or other activities.

14. .... it is an excellent initiative which we would recommend thoroughly
what universities say
.... allows the University to increase the number
of schools and colleges that we work with
.... means the University can focus on delivering the sessions
.... allows me to reach out to schools and students
that I would not otherwise be able to interact
.... it has been a terrific experience
.... as an academic I don’t have a lot of time for outreach activities and being able to have an interactive
session with schools across the country, just by stepping into our video conferencing facility is fantastic
.... everything has always gone very smoothly
.... the English Department’s work with VU was praised as a
particular point of best institutional practice in the Internal
Periodic Review

15. .... it is an excellent initiative which we would recommend thoroughly
what universities say
.... allows the University to increase the number
of schools and colleges that we work with
.... means the University can focus on delivering the sessions
.... allows me to reach out to schools and students
that I would not otherwise be able to interact
.... it has been a terrific experience
.... as an academic I don’t have a lot of time for outreach activities and being able to have an interactive
session with schools across the country, just by stepping into our video conferencing facility is fantastic
.... everything has always gone very smoothly
.... the English Department’s work with VU was praised as a
particular point of best institutional practice in the Internal
Periodic Review

16. thinking about wellbeing

17. thank you
robcullis@channeltalent.co.uk