On 24/10/15 10:46, David Boxall wrote: > ... If memory serves, one child averages about 20GB/month for > educational purposes. ...
Sorry, I intended to reply to the list: Yes, Paul Fletcher MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications said on 19 May 201: "Work by the Department of Communications suggests that a typical distance education student will download 15 to 20 gigabytes (GB) of data in a month." From "CommsDay Satellite Summit: 'Putting satellite to its highest value uses'": http://www.minister.communications.gov.au/paul_fletcher/speeches/commsday_satellite_summit_putting_satellite_to_its_highest_value_uses#.Vi1SYJeglyQ I can't find the research this is based on. But one parent has told me that their child's studies use 5 to 15 hours of video conferencing a week. Depending on the setting used, would be enough to use up 20GB in a month. The data use for Distance Education (DE) is mostly taken up by video and depends on the resolution the course designer, teacher and student choose to use. A full time DE university student would watch about two hours of prerecorded video and take part in two hours of live webinar/videoconference a week. The prerecorded video could be downloaded over-night to make use of off-peak data allocation (the material is recorded months, or years, in advance) and a lower frame rates and resolution used for live events, to reduce data use. -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
