The interdisciplinary nature of the Water: Systems, Science, and Society program, which brings together instructors and students from the geographically separated Tufts campuses, prompted Professor Paul Kirshen to call UIT’s Academic Technology department to help him research and implement a low-cost, portable web conferencing solution.
Adobe’s Connect product met his needs by providing many-to-many video and audio conferencing. The software also has built-in application sharing to allow presentation materials to be shared amongst the various conference sites.
