Posted by admin on Sep 21, 2009 in
e-learning Ebooks are books in an electronic form but a lot different in the way the presentation is done to the reader.
Just as you would read a book by earmarking pages, flipping pages refering back to text, etc so can you do the same on dual displays for ebooks.
The latest ebook was developed by researchers at Maryland and Berkeley Universities.
Uses
Unlike conventional reading of paperbacks, magazine, periodicals, etc, ebooks are a totally new concept added to the meaning of reading. In addition they allow you to scroll to different pages unlike flipping through a book or even call up on research data needed for a topic for the book.
Advantages
Where physical reading allows one to flip a page or fold the book, the device allows readers to turn pages by interaction or close book movements of one face toward the other, and, in the folded posture by flipping the device over. Users can also fold one face behind the other, which provides an alternative, more compact form . When the displays are detached, multiple documents (eg. literature and thesaurus, literature and map, etc) can be viewed simultaneously. In such a setting, users can arrange the displays in convenient positions as required.. Read more…
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Posted by admin on Sep 9, 2009 in
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Effects of E learning
“Successful organizations understand that investing in workplace learning and performance is the key to a highly skilled workforce,” said Tony Bingham, president and CEO of ASTD.
Corporates investments in online learning technologies are paying off through cost savings and efficiency gains as e-learning reaches a high level of complexity.
A good example
Cisco Systems created an innovative training program called E-Service Training (EST), which makes the most of the potential of Internet capabilities and technologies. The objective of the EST program is to ensure that Field Engineers are ready to repair and maintain new merchandise as soon as they’re released to consumers. Owing to the speedy nature of new product deployment, the growing number of products, and the global location of consumers, training all of the FEs in time becomes very complicated.
The E-Service Training program changed the conduct of both the people who created training, as well as those who received it. Training developers were used to to using a very ordered process to create training for a classroom setting. In the course of developing the E-Service Training content, trainer had to learn how to create material on an array of file formats other than PowerPoint®. Devices such as HTML editors, image editors, and multimedia applications are now incorporated in the toolbox for trainers. Trainers realize that content development is not just about slides, but about creating training that was appealing, educational, and fun. Read more…
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Posted by admin on Aug 17, 2009 in
e-learning In this modern age, there is a proliferation in terms of business – online or offline. Perhaps this is due to the fact that many would like to have more money to survive in this time that is full of crisis. As observed, those who have the financial freedom are the ones who have businesses. Consequently, not only business establishments or companies prosper. At a certain point of time, maybe but not at all times. Many end up in bankruptcy due to people’s demand which is getting lower and lower every day. To make your business survive, techniques and strategies must be applied but for certain reasons techniques and strategies if not presented to proper persons and avenues, they still become in vain.
This is not what you want to happen to your own business, right? You want to achieve your targets not only for a specific period of time but for a lifetime. One of the answers is buying an online presentation software. Imagine, you only spend a little amount to buy the said software, and off you go and make effective online presentations. The competition is not offline. It is online. Once you have the software, you can create online presentation.
Advertising is really part of business. The advertisements you show, reflect the culture and values the company has. Therefore, you have to be very careful when you create online presentation. In your presentation, you implant or inject to would-be customers the product you endorse and the value/s that the company possesses. Read more…
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Posted by admin on Aug 5, 2009 in
e-learning Rock guitar lessons software has some significant differences versus online rock guitar lessons. This can be valuable to understand for the guitar student who is looking for effective guitar learning tools, but does not know what some of the differences may be between these very different learning modalities. Rock guitar lessons software is a computer program that you load onto your computer at home. Online guitar lessons are an internet interface that you do not load onto your computer, but access via your internet connection. This may seem like a non-important concept until you learn about how they are different and how your learning and ability to accomplish more on your guitar can be by affected by these different forms of rock guitar lessons.
Online guitar lessons are only available by logging in to a system with a per session charge or by maintaining a subscription fee. This means that you never always have unlimited access to your lessons once paid for. Either the one time fee needs to be paid again to retake a lesson, or you only have access as long as you maintain the subscription. Years later how much to you have to pay to retake certain lessons; Are they always still going to be available? Your internet service must be working properly and the particular service that you are accessing needs to be functioning properly. With many companies disappearing in today’s business world, you have no guarantees that you can have access to all of the content. Read more…
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Posted by admin on Aug 3, 2009 in
e-learning The students who began college this year have been dubbed the first “Net Generation,” because they habitually seek, receive, and even expect information to reach them over Web services like Twitter, Facebook, Google, and YouTube. Soon, they will join our world’s “movers and shakers,” but they are already so wired into the Web that (according to Beloit College’s “Mindset List” ® for 2009), before arriving on campus, they had checked out their roommates on Facebook, “…where they have shared their most personal thoughts with the whole world.”
This is the first of many future college classes that:
Drink electronic media like water, and breathe broadband communications like air.
- Will expect us to deliver e-Learning content over the Web channels where they “live.”
- Will require highly interactive, graphic, and “engaging” training materials.
- Won’t allow themselves to remain bored by training that doesn’t grab and hold their interest.
This implies a lot for the e-Learning community. But it doesn’t mean that we must abandon the way we create and deliver e-Learning today. In fact, you may already possess all the tools you need, to start producing more interactive and engaging e-Learning materials immediately. If you haven’t yet tried the following technologies and techniques, now might be a good time to start! Read more…
Tags: e-Learning community, FaceBook, Google, Twitter, Web services