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

Kapp Notes

In the course of a week, I get asked many questions about Virtual Worlds, an interesting one that keeps occurring goes something like this. It seems that students find virtual worlds boring. How can I get them more into virtual worlds beyond the classroom? The problem is not confined to virtual worlds.

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Teaching & Learning Conference

Moodle Journal

In the end I decided to opt for an introduction to eLearning, the terminology, and standards and how the vle fits into the delivery. With regard to content I took the opportunity to demonstrate Wimba Create , which in itself would act as nice advertisement for my training session.

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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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Evolving the E-Learning Experience for the 21st Century

eLearning 24-7

Virtual Desktops. Virtual desktops not only mimic a desktop on a cpu, but they include such things as a calendar, clock, media player, wallpaper background, desktop icons, online storage, word processing, high file size upload (some go up to 150mb per file) and e-mail. those who are using IE 7).

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Newsletter,feedback and eMaterials

Moodle Journal

Apart from raising awareness for everyone regarding those things that are actually taking place with eLearning at the college, I also felt that it could act as a link to resources and news items in the e-digital world in general. The materials came on a CD from Skills2learn , and included a standard network and Scorm package version, nice.

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E-Learning Innovative Products – They are Out There

eLearning 24-7

Anyone, anywhere in the world can buy your course. Accepts any courses built in any content authoring tools that are SCORM & AICC compliant – so you can upload and sell your courses that you built in Articulate, Captivate, even open source authoring tools (but they must be standards compliant). That’s right – YOU.