About Us

The Interactive Video Team is in association with Advanced Learning Technologies. ALTEC is a group of organizations always searching for innovative ways of improving teaching and learning. IVT specializes in the implementation of video communications in education.

Video conferencing began in the mid 1980’s as compressed video. Although compressed video did produce an interactive video conference, it was expensive, difficult to coordinate in a school district and the signal quality was sacrificed due to compression technology (Howard, Ault, Knowlton & Swall). A new protocol of video communications emerged in the mid 1990’s called Internet Protocol or IP based video. IP based video conferencing is a method of performing interactive audio and video communications over a regular high speed internet connection. Since it was introduced, communication technologies have improved exponentially. It has become apparent in the last few years that the expanding networks in school districts will be able to handle the implementation of video communications if not now, then in the very near future.