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This paper reports the case of an interactive, real time platform using web-technology in the delivery of teaching and learning when classes were suspended during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in April 2003 in Hong Kong. Responding to the suspension of schools during that unprecedented difficult period, the Hong Kong Baptist University offered schools free use of its Internet-based Virtual Integrated Teaching and Learning Environment (VITLE) platform. Teachers and their students were encouraged to adopt e-Learning by continuing their classes on the VITLE platform, and 75 schools registered to use the new technology. This is a specific example of taking advantage of streaming technologies to create a rich, multi-media communication solution for the benefits of the students, teachers and schools.
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Fung, A.C., Ledesma, J. (2005). Extending the Classroom. In: Tatnall, A., Osorio, J., Visscher, A. (eds) Information Technology and Educational Management in the Knowledge Society. ITEM 2004. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 170. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-24045-4_5
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