EDUC 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: M-Learning, Web Conferencing, Microsoft Netmeeting
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Lesson 15 training trends and best practices. Instead, use it for announcements, interviews, and other shorter segments where visual stimuli is not needed to understand and appreciate the content: software suggestion: audacity. Keep these segments short (no more than 10-15 minutes) and always indicate the viewing time so learners can set their expectations and schedules accordingly. If the videos are longer, they should either be segmented by sub-topic or complemented with visuals: software suggestions: windows movie maker, realplayer converter. Instead, this medium can be used to have live office hours and tutorials (with one student) and to avoid long-distance fees. Also quite popular for e-collaboration (meetings and file- sharing) and technical support since some software allows one user to take over the other"s computer: software suggestions: skype, netmeeting, windows live. Because of the utter dependence on the technology, instructors must take the necessary time to familiarize themselves with this environment to the point where they are quite comfortable with it.
