August 19, 2000.
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Here's the deal. Last Monday I used this material as a catalyst to discussion on live elearning. Normally, I'd just convert my PowerPoint slides to HTML from within PowerPoint. However, Microsoft ju-ju wants me to go through a couple of hours of arcana to restore the HTML conversion feature that disappeared last time I downloaded a security patch for Outlook. Or was it service release-2 that had a rocky time because I'd upgraded with Office Small Business Edition from Office 97 Professional, with a few bug fixes along the way. Anyway, it's easier to screen-grab this than get my Microsoft software back together, so get ready for a high bandwidth one-page presentation. Or bail. |
Let's talk about Live eLearning.
Jay knows less about live eLearning than these wonderful folks who clued him in last week:
Takes (at least) two to tango, although they can't be in the same room.
Why? To bring people together. If they're far apart,
live sessions over the web may be "better than reality."
Common features of live eLearning apps.
Collaborative Strategies' take on the market.
"Thick client" means a download of a meg or more.
This is great
if you're coming back again and again, as in a recurring learning
situation. (The more you've loaded onto your hard disk, the less
you'll have to download each session.) Not too hot for just dropping by.
"Thin client" implies a less than 1 meg download.
Easy as browsing the web. But may lack the quality
and feature-set you'd get from a thick client.
If I were in the live eLearning business, I'd be preparing
to be acquired. But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
A lecture is not a seminar is not a bull session after class.
On the web or in real life.
How good does it have to be to work?
Better than this.
Being there is better than Memorex. Why?
Xerox PARC tells us that audio+active shared application
communicates 90% of the information you'd get via full-motion video.
