Content about Virtual education

January 3, 2012
The Integrated Learning Manifesto

The time has come for a new, integrated model for corporate learning. Technology should provide a platform for seamlessly delivering carefully selected, timely, role-appropriate learning opportunities at the right point in career development. Learner needs must drive the LMS, not the other way around.

By Chris Frederick Willis, CEO, Media 1

November 15, 2011
Re-Inventing Learning at Whirlpool University

Whirlpool University leveraged the opportunity of marketplace-driven circumstances to create the “Closed Loop Learning Method.” This method integrates: the power of the online learning environment, face-to-face classroom, application of skills, and the employee’s manager.

By Tamara Patrick, Director, Whirlpool University

July 1, 2011
A New Revolution in Online Training

A recentresearch report from Forrester Resarch predicts: “The 3-D Internet will be as important for work as the Web is today, and knowledge management professionals should begin to investigate and experiment with virtual worlds.” A look at the advantages of 3-D virtual platforms and how to get started.

By Mark Jankowski, Co-Founder Shapiro Negotiations Institute

3-D virtual platforms are Internet based, multi-user environments where participants create avatars, which are, simply put, computer-generated people. These avatars can attend training programs, participate in interactive group experiences, and collaborate with one another.

June 6, 2011
Can Online Training Be Personal and Interactive?

Technology can help us create learning environments that are even more dynamic, more stimulating, and more effective than ever before. The challenge is to throw away our traditional classroom thinking and open our minds to all the new possibilities for teaching and learning. Maybe it’s online role-playing games that replicate a company’s business environment. Sometimes though, it’s just looking someone in the eye who’s thousands of miles away and saying, “You can do it.”

By Debra Chrapaty, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Collaboration Software Group, Cisco Systems

Polishing your English-as-a-second-language skills in a non-English-speaking country can be a challenge. So how did Shaker M. Aldwikh, a project manager with an international telecommunications company based in Saudi Arabia, recently achieve a promotion in part thanks to his greatly improved English language skills?

October 4, 2010
Learning AnyWare Courses Expanded

Learning Tree International, Inc., is expanding the courses it offers through the company's Learning Tree AnyWare solution, which enables participants to fully interact with their instructors and classmates through a media-rich interface that integrates live classroom video, audio and chat features, as well as the ability to view instructor demos.

Learning Tree International, Inc., is expanding the courses it offers through the company's Learning Tree AnyWare solution after more than 5,000 business and IT professionals enrolled to participate in such courses during the first year of open enrollment. Learning Tree AnyWare is a live, online training delivery solution that connects participants to an actual classroom.