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A powerful virtual classroom: Adobe Connect 8

Janet Clarey

I’m always cognizant of what Ellen Wagner (formerly with Adobe) said while writing about web conferencing technologies around the time Blackboard bought Wimba and Elluminate and combined them to create Blackboard Collaborate (for edu-types, I’ll insert the ‘muwhahahaha’ just for you). billion by 2014.

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Weekly Bookmarks (1-2-2011)

Experiencing eLearning

Four Steps to Effective Virtual Classroom Training by Ruth Clark : Learning Solutions Magazine. Four-step model by Ruth Clark on designing for synchronous online training via Elluminate etc. Better than your average tag cloud–interactive, colorful, shaped like clouds, etc. tags: visualization tagging tools.

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Synchronous Software Scavenger Hunts

Experiencing eLearning

If I’m doing software application training, doing it as a webinar isn’t really my first choice. Just-in-time, interactive training that supports or simulates actual tasks is my first choice. Application training via a synchronous tool like WebEx, Adobe Connect, or Elluminate too often ends up with passive learners.

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Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions

Experiencing eLearning

These are my live blogged notes from Karen Hyder’s webinar, Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions from the Training Magazine Network. In a classroom setting, you couldn’t ask everyone for feedback they way you can in virtual classroom. Helps extend the time of the training.

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E-learning on a shoestring

Clive on Learning

And don't forget those organisations - typically cottage industries - that provide training services to the big boys, but have had neither the capital nor the technical expertise to integrate e-learning into their offerings. But this year we have seen a major shift.

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Another Stake in Ground for Blackboard: Two New Investments in the Open-source E-learning Market

Janet Clarey

Moodlerooms is a solution provider that hosts Moodle for organizations, integrates enterprise features for Moodle, and provides consultation service and training for organizations interested in the low-cost, popular open-source Moodle LMS (they call is a CMS) and also customization, flexibility and extended features for the enterprise.

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Top 70 eLearning Posts for June and Hot Topics including iPad and Mobile Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

believe it is important for everyone, especially those in teaching or training roles, to develop critical thinking skills. In 1955, Bell Telephone was concerned about leadership development: “A well-trained man knows how to answer questions, they reasoned; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.”. Social Bookmarks.

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