Yeah – my Polycom camera and software arrived on Friday – yippeeee! (Thanks Steve!!!)Haven’t had a chance to load it all up yet – have allocated Thursday for that! And right as my camera arrives – here’s a great case study about Polycom technology: Video Conferencing and Music Performance Education – Around the world with…
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Contemporary Online Teaching Cases
James Farmer shares a really nifty project pulled together at Deakin Uni – Contemporary Online Teaching Cases. "It features the work of over 70 Deakin University staff in developing and using new media and online technologies to foster student learning. The site was developed through University strategic teaching and learning innovation funding. It has been…
Read MoreQantas game plan
It’s great to see LTUG members making page 3 – of the SMH Technology feature!There is a half page article (in the paper-based version) highlighting the benefits of the new QF safety compliance training that has been developed by Tata Interactive Systems in India. Typically this type of complaince training can be rather..ummm…dry – but…
Read MoreVirtual Success
Jenny O’Farrell – Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) How people could learn in small chunks and be actively invovled in learning – so – Jenny bought some virtual classroom software. Jenny’s learning philosophy – Winston Churchill: "Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." Jenny recommends: virtual classrooms as…
Read MoreOvercoming Learner Resistance
Bob Spence – St George Bank Managing Expectations: many promises are made: saves money & reduces costs, reduces classroom facilities, reduces facilitators, more effective, from paper to "e" is easy etc Learner Expectations: (most important component in the equation!) – of course! they want relevant learning, time to complete, quality learning, be able to use…
Read MoreOnline Courses as Video Games
Here’s an engaging case study on the use of video games, role-plays and education….make sure you link through to the case study and then the link to the example of a RPG educational video game!!! From Campus Technology Online Courses as Video Games By Dr. Rodney P. Riegle, Professor,Illinois State University Online course offerings are…
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An example from Webex on the use of the synchronous webinar software in an educational setting! The Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in Amsterdam is using WebEx for collaboration with students and lecturers – creating a virtual classroom for remote students. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041201/sfw046_1.html
Read MoreLearning Circuits 2004 Survey results
Rather than review a specific case study this month, I thought it may be of interest to LTUG readers to review the survey results from Learning Circuits – ASTDs (American Society for Training & Development) e-zine. In August and September of 2004, Learning Circuits ran two separate online surveys. The first survey, Learning Circuits Annual…
Read MoreKnowledge Sharing
Informal, joined up knowledge sharing using connected weblogs in pursuit of Mental Health service improvement While I’m focusing on blogs (when am I not?) I thought this might be of interest! Lee Bryant from Headshift – a UK-based internet technolgies company that focuses on social and communication technologies has integrated blogs and wikis into the…
Read MoreVirtual George!
While the internet, LMSs and email have provided so with so many alternative ways to communicate with and manage are students or learners, I’ve always been challenged with managing student queries that flood through onto my emails…but… looks like George Mickhail, a lecturer in accountancy at the University of Wollongong has come up with a…
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