A Remote Tutorial

Professor Michael Axelsson (University of Gothenburg) kindly invited me to join in a trial of delivering a Neurosim tutorial remotely using Zoom. The idea was that he would run Neurosim on his PC in Sweden, and I, as a student resident in Scotland, would join him in a video conference call using Zoom on my Mac laptop. He would share his screen and give me control of Neurosim, and act as a tutor. He recorded the "tutorial" and this is the result.

This was completely unscripted, and is certainly not a complete showcase of Neurosim facilities, but it does give a proof of concept for its use in remote tutorials. (It also suggests that neither of us should take up acting as a second career!)

 

Since this I have tried a similar experiment with Microsoft Teams, running Neurosim on my Mac using the Wine-base emulator CrossOver, and delivering a tutorial to a colleague also running Zoom on a Mac. As with the Zoom-based tutorial, it worked well, although in both cases the mouse response was a little sluggish.

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