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Training starts for 2013

Moodle Journal

The idea that you are going to require staff to carryout major changes to their existing materials is always likely to induce an expected and to be frank understandable level of reticence, however by using Wimba Create , which will convert materials produced in MS Word into Scorm compliant packages, can pretty much neutralise that.

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Blended Learning

Moodle Journal

It all seemed to start off with a request to convert some course options for one of the professional programmes to being fully online, in fact students could in theory even take just the online course as part of professional development anyway, and it was that possibility that raised a whole raft of other considerations.

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Evolving the E-Learning Experience for the 21st Century

eLearning 24-7

As aforementioned one company called Wimba already has audio – voice capabilities within their social learning product, so that learners can say their comments on a discussion board and other learners can hear the voice comments rather than read them. Converters. Social learning takes on a whole new meaning. Why would I want it?

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What you don’t need to know about SCORM

Integrated Learnings

About 5 years ago the company I was working for had a product called Wimba Create and the term SCORM started swirling around in my head again. Wimba Create is an add-on for Microsoft Word and can convert content to a SCORM package that can be used in a learning management system (LMS). The LMS provides the SCORM compatible API.

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Newsletter,feedback and eMaterials

Moodle Journal

As you will have read from previous recent postings, I have introduced Wimba Create as tool for converting Word files into Scorm packages, and these can include embedded webpages, media and short tests. Of course while these new materials certainly look impressive, what is the perception of our students?

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E-Learning Innovative Products – They are Out There

eLearning 24-7

Provides social learning features including shoutbox, photos, discussion boards, blogs, events, polls, articles. It is automatically converted into a single.SWF file, so you can use it with any 3rd party authoring tool. Wimba Collaboration Suite 6.0 – Live. Attaches to your current Legacy LMS. Can see price points online.

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Top 70 eLearning Articles - Hot Topics: iPad Adobe Captivate - July 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Well Played, Blackboard - elearnspace , July 8, 2010 While Blackboard is unable to write a press release that includes clear statements like “we have purchased these companies&# , I have to give the company credit for the acquisition of Elluminate (and Wimba). The contents list is shown in the screenshot below. THANK YOU !