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Co-Browsing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide
Co-browsing is the ability to co-navigate the web with other people at-a-distance. Co-browsing differentiates itself from screen or application sharing because it is not achieved by sending a high rate of screenshots of the presenter screen to one or more participants but by distributing in a synchronous fashion the URL(s) being visited by the presenter to all participants' browsers. Photo credit: James Isbell Co-browsing, also known as "web touring" is...
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-March 22, 2007

Webcasting Trends For Online Publishers: The On24 Insider Report
ON24, a provider of internet broacasting solutions, today issued a report whose aim is to quantify the use of internet broadcasting (also known as "webcasting") during the past year and "uncover webcasting trends for business-to-business (B2B) publishers." ON24 Insider on Publishing is based on data collected among the users of ON24 Webcasting Platform and highlights all webcasting trends and attendee behaviors from first half 2005 to first 2006. The report...
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-January 22, 2007

Electronic Portfolios: What Are They And How Can They Benefit Learning Experiences?
Electronic portfolios (also referred to as eportfolios or webfolios) are gaining recognition as a valuable tool for learners, instructors, and academic organizations. Photo credit: Johanna Goodyear, Stephen Coburn Bold proclamations laud webfolios as "higher education's new got-to-have-it tool, the show-and-tell platform of the millennium", and as a tool that "may have the most significant effect on education since the introduction of formal schooling". Laying aside new-technology hype and enthusiasm, eportfolios...
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-December 28, 2006

How To Make Money With E-Learning: Tips By George Siemens
Several years ago, the rush to elearning was driven by visions of profits. The long under-funded educational system was suddenly able to play in the business domain. Photo credit: Lorelyn Medina However, NYU Online, USOU, Fathom, and others discovered that the elearning market did not guarantee instant riches. The elearning market revealed itself as any other unique market - not easily unlocked by traditional business acumen or higher education administration....
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-November 23, 2006

Online Video Publishing And Sharing for Learning and Collaboration: A Mini-Guide
Web-Based Delivery of Audio and Video Materials The web-based delivery of Audio-Video recordings consists in the ability to publish, share and redistribute to other internet-connected users audio or video clips. Photo credit: (c) Padplayer Thanks to major cost decreases for mass storage technology and thanks to the increased amounts of data bandwidth available to Internet providers and end users since 2005 it has become feasible for anyone to publish, share...
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-November 16, 2006

Whiteboarding Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide
What is Whiteboarding? Whiteboarding is the ability to mark-up, annotate and draw in real-time on any document, image, screen, slide or picture appearing on the screen. It is to be noted that in the academic world, digital whiteboards that posses digital capabilities have been an increasingly popular stable of the modern classroom. What it is being referred to here it is whiteboarding done online, with other people that are connecting...
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-November 2, 2006

Learning Networks + Knowledge Exchange = Learning 2.0
It is now ten years or so into the era of online learning. Schools, colleges and universities have now developed the internet infrastructure of their choice. Almost all have web pages, most have online courses, and many have synchronous online learning. The learning management system (LMS) has become a commodity business, educational software of all sorts abounds, and the phenomenon has spread around the globe. Photo credit: Joachim Angeltun Even...
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-October 20, 2006

Lifelong Learning And The Future Of Knowledge Sharing: Introduction To Learning Ecology
Learner-centered, lifelong learning has been the cry of knowledge society visionaries for the last decade. Yet learning continues to be delivered with teacher-centric tools in a twelve week format. Society is changing. Learners needs are changing. Photo credit: James Thew The course, as a model for learning, is being challenged by communities and networks, which are better able to attend to the varied characteristics of the learning process by using...
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-October 12, 2006

Online Collaboration: What Are The Key Traits Of Ideal Online Collaborators?
A recent survey conducted jointly by Mitch Ditkoff and Tim Moore of Idea Champions, Carolyn Allen of Innovation Solution Center and Dave Pollard of Meeting of Minds reveals that most people would rather have inexperienced people with a positive attitude than highly experienced people who lack enthusiasm, candor or commitment, on a collaborative work team. Photo credit: Mac Brown Two criteria, enthusiasm for the subject of the collaboration, and open-mindedness...
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-November 24, 2005

Virtually Networked Teams: How To Enable Bioteams Killer Ground Rules
Introduction The kinds of organizational teams we encounter today Â– Virtually Networked Teams are a unique breed of diversity and complexity that is difficult to manage effectively. The problems these teams face can make technology both part of the solution and part of the problem. Photo credit: Pam Roth What appears as being critical is the realization of Virtually Networked Teams strong character and dynamic nature, almost as it would...
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-May 30, 2005