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... delivered electronically (virtual classroom, courseware).So, what about these other terms:EPSS (Electronic Performance Support Systems)This term is still used quite a bit, but most often it refers to online job aids or a modified front-end to software systems. While I highly respect Gloria Gery's work, I think she did us a disservice by continually pointing to Turbo Tax as THE example of EPSS.Like Jack, I find that this term is a bit tired and many people turn off when they hear it ...
eLearning Technology - Saturday, January 5, 2008 - CommentsTen Predictions for eLearning 2008
Reading & Research More Effective.Prediction #2 => Virtual Classroom Tools - Meeting Tool + Second Life LiteA medium size Virtual Classroom / Meeting Tool will announce features in 2008 that are not 3D immersive, but that are more like Mii characters in a 2.5D world. This will allow more natural kinds of interactions in classroom settings, especially ... a series of events (success of small group discussions at eLearningGuild in the Fall, success of the virtual conference ... discussion by Luis Suarez about a targeted virtual conference), I'm starting to think that the way to go is to have ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, January 3, 2008 - CommentsLMS RFP
... talking different file formats or do you mean classroom vs. virtual classroom vs. asynchronous. And if that's what you ... for:Does your LMS work with WebEx as a virtual classroom tool to?allow administrators to create virtual classroom ... the administrator?provide a link to the learner in an email notification that allows them to launch into the virtual classroom session?track attendance at the virtual classroom session into the LMS?Does your LMS allow us to associate pre-work with both instructor-led training and virtual classroom training?allow pre-work to include SCORM courses?These are ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, October 25, 2007 - CommentseLearning Defined
... virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. It includes the delivery of content via Internet, intranet/extranet (LAN/WAN), audio- and videotape, satellite broadcast, interactive TV, CD-ROM, and more.eLearning / e-Learning - Any learning that utilizes a network (LAN, WAN or Internet) for delivery, interaction, or facilitation. This would include distributed learning , distance learning (other than pure correspondence ), CBT delivered over a network, and WBT ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, October 5, 2007 - CommentseLearning Startups - New Wave Coming
... start-ups that focus on authoring tools, virtual classroom, learning management, content, services. When you look back at 2000-2002, companies getting VC funding were folks like Outstart, Hyperwave, Infocast, Element K, Pathlore, Vuepoint, Knowledge Impact. Some of that is still happening with folks like Cornerstone getting $32M. But a lot of what you see today is consolidation among players in these areas.Today the startups in eLearning sit in smaller niches or by attacking tangential opportunities in eLearning ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, September 28, 2007 - CommentsSoftware Upgrade Training and Support
... to see up-front communications, introductory sessions to the system (virtual classroom), minimal training, access to hybrid reference and support, and follow-on "office hours" that allow people to ask questions, tell us problems they've found. Office hours can be an amazingly effective tool. We can tell everyone going in that there will be challenges as you get into the system. If it's something you need immediate help on, here's how you get help ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, September 24, 2007 - CommentsHot Topics in Training
... wiki 0 0 2 2 assessment 3 1 3 2 200% virtual classroom 5 1 3 2 200% align/ment 8 1 3 2 200% strategy/ic 10 3 8 5 167% trainer 6 7 14 7 100% performance 17 9 18 9 100% lms 2 3 5 2 67% rapid 3 4 5 1 25% roi 9 4 5 1 25% shoestring 0 3 3 0 0% ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, May 4, 2007 - CommentseLearning Software
... application.Virtual Classroom eLearning Software - Information about virtual classroom eLearning Software.eLearning Software TrendsAuthoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups - How eLearning Software is changing based on Web 2.0 technical approaches.Shift in eLearning Software Approaches from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids - An alternative eLearning Software approach.Direction of eLearning Software - Emergence or Big System - a trend in eLearning Software ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, April 26, 2007 - CommentseLearning Resources
... eLearning ResourcesVarious posts around eLearning Resources: Rapid eLearning Tools Virtual Classroom Instruction - eLearing Resources Discussion Resources for Learning Professionals Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) eLearning Blogs - Quick Way to Find Good Ones Surveys in eLearning Tracking Without an LMS Fun Headline ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, April 3, 2007 - CommentsSecond Life and Learning - Tony O'Driscoll
... potential for learning professionals to ignore. But Virtual Worlds should not be used to automate existing learning approaches and models: A virtual classroom with virtual students and a virtual PowerPoint deck is not the end-game for learning in ... (embedded below) that starts with a question many of us are asking: Are virtual worlds a breakthrough technology that will ... you can have easier break-out sessions. So, in a couple of years, we would expect to have virtual conferences, virtual ... created in Second Life such as a virtual visit to a NASA museum complete with videos, presentations, a rocket-ride ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, March 23, 2007 - CommentsGet Together at Conferences - F2F Still Matters
Just yesterday, I posted about Conference Preparation and I'm preparing for a couple of conferences so I definitely looked back at: Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee. One of the questions I often ask attendees - especially as we are discussing virtual classroom tools and virtual environments (e.g., Second Life) - is:Why did we come to ... , Podcasts, Video... and she provides this picture: It shows that while we slowly approach real-time, realistic virtual ... online. Online you will have an incredibly realistic experience (think how good virtual actors are these days - add ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, March 16, 2007 - CommentsThe Paradox of Informal Learning (Form of Informal?)
... discussing virtual classroom tools at an in-person conference session. There's no problem, but it is ironic.On the other hand, Clark's comment did make me think about the paradox that informal learning faces...Once we give structure and form to a learning intervention, doesn't it stopbeing informal?This is much like the challenge of Artificial Intelligence that I was struck by back in the 80s. If you define a problem, such as playing chess and you say that requires intelligence - the moment you write a program that solves the problem, then you redefine what it means to be intelligent because in hindsight its pretty obvious how to play chess ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, December 4, 2006 - CommentsClark Aldrich - "Second Life is not a teaching tool"
Clark Aldrich's recent post on LCB - The Learning Circuits Blog: Second Life is not a teaching tool - has me wondering what he thinks a "teaching tool" is?Having said all of that, Second Life, as is, is not a teaching tool. It is content free. It is closer to a virtual classroom tool, or even a real-world meeting room or water cooler (without the actual ... scalable enough to provide an intellectual payoff), or be "brought in."Ummm ... but aren't virtual classroom tools or ... technical issues and provides presence audio is going to have adoption patterns similar to virtual classroom / virtual ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, November 20, 2006 - CommentsRapid eLearning - More Definition
... virtual classroom delivery or be completely standalone Will be short This fairly well lines up with how I stated the industry has come to define "Rapid eLearning" as I mentioned in my previous post.
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - CommentsWhere are open source learning applications?
... worth keeping an eye on:* Virtual classroom solutions - after having gone through trying to find inexpensive solutions, there's real opportunity here for Skype+conferencing. A few early tools exist, but they are in the early adopter stage.* Demo + Audio recording solution - Wink is early adopter stage as well, but will soon be moving more mainstream. Think of it as freeware Captivate.* Fun Interactions - Hot Potato* Audio Editing - Audacityand I know there's some that do essentially PPT + audio, lots of ways to create podcasts, video, and the list goes on ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, July 28, 2006 - CommentsDirection of eLearning - Emergence or Big System
... discussion around the next generation of standards, it made my head spin. There are many overlapping product sets (virtual classroom, LMS, LCMS, Authoring, Assessment, Search, Collaboration, HRIS, Talent Management, etc.), standards and new technologies allowing them to interoperate (SOA, Web Services, REST). Further, the standards are becoming much more complicated to support richer kinds of interoperability. It makes you yearn for the days of SCORM 1.1 where there was pretty much an LMS that needed to talk to courses.In many corporate environments, I'm already seeing the pendulum swinging away from Enterprise IT ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - CommentsMoving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind
... and weaknesses.Collaborative learning environments and strategies such as virtual classrooms,discussion forums, mentoring and coaching need to be enabled and mandated aspart of the learning experience.While I welcome LMS products providing these kinds of capabilities, I am worried that we are about to see another whole cascade of LMS features that will make it even hard to get a reasonable implementation done ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, July 6, 2006 - CommentsShift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids
Games Creation Tools Rapid Content Creation Tools Live E-Learning/Virtual Classroom Technology Just-in-Time Learning Technology Innovations in Learner Management Technology Innovations in Learning Content Creation and Learning Content Management Technology OpenNone of this makes me think about "reference," but maybe it would be included in either "Rapid Content Creation" or "Just-in-Time."Okay, now that I'm done ranting about terminology, here's the real point ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, May 25, 2006 - CommentsCollaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary
... virtual classroom sessionFirst two weeks were introductions to the tools and to collaborative learningMiddle three ... collaborating virtually. This was primarily a function of timing. If you could do several cycles in a short amount of time, then ...
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