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ON24 Launches Virtual Training Platform
May 16, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
Additional features of the virtual training platform include enterprise integration, allowing connection to Learning Management Systems and collateral/document repositories, while training measurement functionality highlights key metrics such as attendance, number of discussions/chats, documents downloaded and time spent in the virtual environment — providing meaningful insight into learner participation and completion rates. Its enterprise-class security ensures that only authorized individuals have access to the environment, and its “roles” feature allows companies to customize the experience and training for a learner’s position within the company. Finally, ON24′s VCU includes geography-specific virtual classrooms that enable country/market localization, with the ability to “toggle” between as many as 15 languages.
“With our innovative new virtual training platform, ON24 has developed an engaging training solution that serves global companies even more effectively,” commented Sharat Sharan, CEO of ON24. “The ON24 virtual learning solution gives the end user unprecedented access to online educational content while enabling employers to scale virtual training quickly, share institutional knowledge more effectively, and save time and cost versus live training.”
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Independent students go virtual
May 12, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
More than 15,000 K-12 students are enrolled in full-time virtual schools in California, according to the International Association for K-12 Online Learning. That doesn’t include thousands of students who take one or more online courses offered by K-12 school districts.
School districts in the Victor Valley and throughout California are expanding online offerings as they compete with statewide virtual alternatives.
This fall, Snowline Joint Unified School District is launching the first full-time virtual program that will teach students in grades K-12 under the umbrella of a local district. Enrollment is now open for the new program, which will have a home base at the former Desert View Independent School site in Phelan.
“It’s a wave of the future and it’s another option for kids,” Snowline Virtual School Administrator Chad Brooks said. “Some kids in today’s age just can’t sit in the classroom six, seven hours a day.”
Victor Valley High School is in the second year of its virtual “school within a school.” Through the blended program, online students can take some of the school’s traditional electives, join clubs and even participate in athletics, with several students in this year’s program on the football team.
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Parent Report on the Virtual School
May 7, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
Because the mostly online school starts with kindergarteners, parents can’t just seat their kids in front of a computer and expect them to learn.
Administrator Meg Ervais described the K-2 program as requiring more parental involvement.
While Students in K-2 will be guided by a program called “Little Lincoln” the students will use text books and workbooks that directly correlate to the online teachings.
Grades 3-5 will use the “Lincoln” which is a bit more independent. They still use text and workbooks.
While both elementary programs do teach core curriculum, they use different textbooks and workbooks than CUSD brick-and-mortar schools. This would make changing midstream difficult.
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