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that they allow students to go back and review the content as needed.

nterCall survey of 504 college-aged respondents, because web-based lectures would allow them to work longer hours and watch the videos during their free time.

said they “learn more effectively” with online lectures, and 54 percent “report that their grades improve when lectures are streamed via video online,”

They can’t be bothered with things that require stepping out of their own comfort and convenience zone,” she said. “Rather than adapt themselves … they want things the way they want things. College isn’t Burger King—you can’t always have it your way.”

The potential isolation of online learning didn’t affect student opinions; nearly half “prefer joining their classes online rather than interacting in person with their classmates and professors.”

make use of the following Moodle activities:

outline for the quiz as follows:

environment which is fun and motivating for the students.  Because they can come up with their own collaboration system they already have ownership.   They also can be creative in the questions they set up and will spend a bit of time debating which questions should go into the final quiz.

I will perform the quiz myself in class.  I will use this as a revision activity and will use each question as stimulus for discussion.

Universities are discovering that lecture capture is a competitive advantage and of great benefit to 'millennial' learners, who are accustomed to convenience and to on-demand access to myriad content sources," said Alan Greenberg

the University of New South Wales in Sydney found the Wowza servers to be much more cost effective and easier to maintain than its separate legacy QuickTime™ and Windows® streaming servers,

With Wowza Media Server 2 we are able to consolidate our media resources onto a single platform, while also opening the door to new campus IPTV and iPhone streaming capabilities for our UNSWTV and lecture recording services,"

Many other universities are leveraging the Wowza Media Server's iPhone and IPTV streaming capabilities to expand enrollment and make courses and other content such as athletics widely available outside

"Wowza is focused on helping educators make learning more accessible and affordable by using online video content," said Dave Stubenvoll,

Wowza Media Server was named Best Server Hardware/Software in the Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards in 2008 and 2009, and received the 2009 Best Innovation award for Wowza Media Server 2

Employees can then access training when it is convenient for them, at home or in the office.

The biggest benefit of eLearning, however, is that it eliminates the expense and inconvenience of getting the instructor and students in the same place.

Web-based products allow instructors to update lessons and materials across the entire network instantly.

electronic learning solutions can offer more collaboration and interaction with experts and peers as well as a higher success rate than the live alternative.

With 24 x 7 access, people can learn at their own pace and review course material as often as needed. Since they can customize the learning material to their own needs, students have more control over their learning process and can better understand the material, leading to a 60% faster learning curve

Training Magazine reported that technology-based training has proven to have a 50–60% better consistency of learning than traditional classroom learning

Teaching and communication techniques which create an interactive online environment include case studies, story-telling, demonstrations, role-playing, simulations, streamed videos, online references, personalized coaching and mentoring, discussion groups, project teams, chat rooms, e-mail, bulletin boards, tips, tutorials, FAQs, and wizards.

can try new things and make mistakes without exposing themselves.

After a failure, students can go back and try again. This type of learning experience eliminates the embarrassment of failure in front of a group.

expensively funded release of university content in Ireland that was accessed by just 40 students.

University of Westminster has around 25 students on it, yet an average of 2,500 unique users from all over the world consume the course’s OER content

It is not as simple as just releasing OER on to the web or in a repository. The real work begins when you try to promote and disseminate the resources

t is not just about having a Facebook account or a Twitter feed. To make these things work, you have to interact with the people who follow you (your so-called friends or followers). You need to link to other key players releasing interesting content related to your own, respond to questions and requests on a regular basis and regularly update your content with lists of the most popular and newest releases.

One great thing about using the web for marketing is that you can track everything you are doing. I can tell you that today, 10 people came to our OER content via our Facebook site, 25 came via Twitter and 12 via YouTube. This is powerful stuff, because you can home in on what really works.

it is the argument that OER can be sustainable and even make a contribution to a university’s bottom line that is perhaps the most pertinent one.

“We are now reaching people all around the world that, without iTunes U, we never would have touched,” said its vice-chancellor, Martin Bean, formerly the general manager of Microsoft’s education products group

Mr. Bean looks at iTunes U and YouTube as free marketing — an opportunity to take “all those active inquiries and those leisure learners and expose them to who we are as a university.

Other universities say that limited resources, copyright concerns or the reluctance of old-fashioned professors are keeping them from recording and uploading lectures.

The courage comes from taking the next leap of faith. Universities no longer define themselves by their content but the overall experience: the concept, the student support, the tutoring and mentoring, the teaching and learning they get and the quality of the assessment.”

"encourage students to submit their schoolwork for mass consumption ..

The Maturity Model was used as a prescriptive, developmental tool in one of the teacher education colleges and one public university