Posts Tagged ‘distance learning’

Using Sakai and Elluminate for an Online Course

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With the right tools, online courses can be as effective as traditional face-to-face courses. I designed an online course that would teach instructors how to integrate multimedia into their own – virtual or traditional – courses.

Using Screen Recordings for Demos and Training

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We learn both by seeing and doing and a great way to cater to this is to create screen capture videos for your demonstrations or training. These capture videos are easy to create, can serve multiple audiences at once, and allow users to watch, pause, and stop the video as needed. The creation of the video is in real time so the time constraints are minimal.

A Secure Way to Share Flip Videos

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With a large number of instructors and even larger population of students, it was vital that creating videos be as easy as possible. If instructors were able to create videos with minimal effort, they would be more receptive to using a streaming video solution. As part of this video project, the Department of Romance Languages [...]

Importance of Infrastructure

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Before embarking on any project, it is imperative that a proper infrastructure is in place. This is particularly important when dealing with any type of course redesign or technology project. Often this is an area that is overlooked and failure to address it from the onset can have catastrophic affects on the overall success of a project.

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