... synchronous e-learning myths #2 and #3 but no #1. Last Friday I attended the eLearning Network's Thinking Synch event in London. I must admit that, up until the event, I thought I had a pretty good handle on how to use virtual classrooms and ... -to-face classroom, but as a valuable medium in its own right. The first myth to be exploded was that virtual classrooms ... bricks and mortar call centres, using a three week classroom programme to train new operators. Their new venture was ... way that was more realistic than could be achieved in a classroom. Captivate simulations and role plays.

Continuing my review of last Friday's eLearning Network Thinking Synch event, I was surprised by several case studies that seemed to suggest that better results could be achieved in the virtual classroom than face-to-face. Hard-hitting evidence came from Illustra's Alan Saunders, whose presentation I mentioned in my previous post. Illustra's online executive coaching programme received phenomenal feedback: "The delivery by virtual media made it even more interesting ... imitation of the face-to-face classroom. Coming next: the myth that synchronous e-learning is essentially a 2D experience.

... environments (which may include simulations, ILT, virtual classrooms, etc.) powered by the tools that foster social ... tools are the better choice here for supporting the learner. Networks and connections are needed. Why create a stand alone ... social interactions? Usage of the distributed network? It’s ongoing. Presentation of content has a beginning and ...

... environments (which may include simulations, ILT, virtual classrooms, etc.) powered by the tools that foster social ... tools are the better choice here for supporting the learner. Networks and connections are needed. Why create a stand alone ... social interactions? Usage of the distributed network? It’s ongoing. Presentation of content has a beginning and ...

CA has a TON of people to help learn - mostly customers. Their group wanted to extend beyond the classroom, What they did: Went to one LMS, instead of many Implemented an eBook platform Standardized the virtual classroom Integrated ... discussion threads, blogs, wikis and RSS Feeds, a resource library, subscription options, chat and virtual classroom, tagging ... and evaluate.) Ha, he just labeled Jive’s Clearspace as a Social Networking platform linked with Facebook instead ... Norms & Practices Real Names Read all new Email participation Social Network Large city mentality Anonymity ...

... employees, partners and customersImplemented eBook platformStandardized and integrated virtual classroom and virtual lab ... response in room)- Chat and virtual classroom (not turned on yet)- Tagging with full text search capability- Training centers ... life? DNA? Native features vs. later addons.- Discussion forums / Conferencing (then networking and content)- Content Management Systems (LMSs then build in networking and collaboration)- Networking (Facebook - may eventually build in content and discussion)Some key differences between building a community v. social networks- community = small town ...

... end. Experimental Design Classrooms Virtual classrooms don’t have to have desks in rows If you want students to ... Virtual World People: sense of presence Places: learning environment Content: course design Assessment: assignments, rubrics ... Site to compare virtual worlds provided in chat: http://www.virtualenvironments.info/ The world keeps changing, so it ... RL Roleplay & conflict Blended reality 80% of the world’s internet users will be in a virtual world by 2011 Suffern Middle School students acted out trial from Of Mice and Men Autism & Aspberger research in SL–virtual ...

... for Kids - 90 courses for kids.Adobe comments - doing a lot of development with Virtual Classroom solution. Looking for our input. How to best engage learners in virtual classrooms. Brent Schlenker and Heidi Fisk - orientation to Annual ... translating.Social networking available (liveblogging, twitter, etc). (What I'm doing - kinda. Not as instantaneous as I like, but ...

... as the fully-featured capabilities of web conferencing, including virtual classrooms. Asynchronously there’s been similar progress, with email, forums and newsgroups; the World Wide Web; social networking using blogs, wikis and ... communication formed the introduction to a webinar I ran this week on virtual classrooms for TrainingZone. I've subsequently ... , using the traditional classroom. I wondered why it was that we continue to value both synchronous and ...

... virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. It includes the delivery of content via Internet, intranet/extranet (LAN/WAN ... various glossaries:eLearning / E-Learning - learning that is accomplished over the Internet, a computer network, via CD ... 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 . Can be ...

... start-ups that focus on authoring tools, virtual classroom, learning management, content, services. When you look back ... network effects to grow very large.One thing that was curious to me is that I can't find a good resource that shows ...

It took me a while to adjust to the idea of virtual classrooms, what with unreliable connections and then endless online death by PowerPoint. I was eventually converted by my participation in a wonderfully interactive and engaging webinar delivered by someone who's name I have entirely forgotten (my apologies if by some extraordinary chance you are reading ... familiar environment for classroom trainers (perhaps not in appearance but certainly in function) and that it requires only a ... , encouraging social networking and punctuating a distance learning programme with milestones that help to keep everyone ...

... 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 3D ... . And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable.

... have been hoping for? Combining all of the great uses of different social networking tools into one that is portable to many devices. Sounds almost too good to be true. Sounds like the ultimate virtual classroom to me. ... It looks like the future of Social networking is going to come from Korea in the form of a tool called Cyworld.  ... example, is a social network owned by a subsidiary of SK Telecom, the country's largest wireless provider. To an American ... homepage that's actually a 3-D room containing a users' blog, photos, and virtual items for sale. Cyworld's digital ...

... sort of live, real-time experience that learners are used to in the classroom. This takes us to paradigm three, the use of virtual classrooms. Synchronous communication is important to learners because it helps to provide structure to a ... because it encourages social interaction. If virtual classroom software wasn't so inexplicably expensive, it would also be ... to form and all learners to be supported. Paradigm three makes the immediacy of the classroom available to learners at a distance. E-learning, which exploits computer networks to facilitate education and training, needs all three of ...

... was bored or had already done the work. I don't see online learning, or virtual classrooms (the way they are today) as a ... networks are your filter for information overload. If A likes it and I like and trust A, then I should like it. I agree with Stowe to a point, in that social networks only deal with part of the problem. I do not believe that you will be able to filter enough through these networks to stop the overwhelming of your bandwidth for both information and attention.I ... your bandwidth and attention by multiplying your self.Some type of virtual agent that not only knows where you are, ...

Dialogue, their version of a virtual classroom and NETg buying KnowledgeNet last year for their virtual classroom ... First, on Monday, WebEx buys intranets.com for $45M in cash (details) then today SumTotal buys Pathlore for $29M in cash (details) and $19M in stock. And then I hear that back on July 27 Premiere Global Services announced that it was buying Netspoke for $23.2M in cash (details).So a virtual meeting company buys a collaboration company.A LMS company buys ... people scrambling to get into liferafts. Think social networking analysis, workflow learning, collective ...

One of the first definitions for e-learning is ASTD's, who define it as covering a wide set of applications and processes, such as Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. It includes the ... -electronic forms, and even traditional classroom instruction). Just-in-time and asynchronous learning, such as virtual labs, virtual classrooms and collaborative work spaces. Simulations, document repositories and publishing programs. Tools ... : It is networked It is delivered to the end-user via a computer using standard internet technology It focuses on ...