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Complaint? Students Don't Hang Out in Virtual Worlds After Class

Kapp Notes

It is interesting to me that we often require a higher standard of new teaching technology than we do for existing teaching technologies. The same is true of Adobe Connect, Horizon Wimba and other 2D classroom software. Virtual worlds are synchronous tools which means you need more than one person to really make it work.

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Evolving the E-Learning Experience for the 21st Century

eLearning 24-7

Web conferencing vendors can establish themselves to expand beyond the meeting standard. Synchronous based learning which has limitations and sometimes passive learning, now becomes active learning. Content authoring tools that have to be used on the desktop of your cpu, no longer is required. Converters.

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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 accessibility standards for elearning are exactly the same as web design.