The Live Response System is the latest addition to The Learning House Inc.’s client directory Web site, www.eLearnPortal.com. eLearnPortal provides interested students with a simple-to-navigate online menu, through which they can search by online program (business, education, social work, etc.), online degree (bachelor’s, master’s, certificate, etc.) or name of school. The new Live Response system is designed to offer students a fully-supported experience as they explore possible online education programs.
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Once used to bring distant parties together, webcams have been updated for a new type of application: proctoring online testing.
Online education — a field of ever-expanding technological innovation — is introducing webcams into the virtual classroom for the purpose of proctoring exams. While many online courses utilize written assignments to monitor a student’s progress, formal standardized testing remains an important gauge for instructors of many disciplines. However, traveling to a testing facility may be virtually impossible for many students, especially if they live in remote areas or abroad. How can institutions balance the trust involved with allowing students to take tests from home with the attractive flexibility of an online degree program? Through webcam proctoring!
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The numbers are extraordinary.
Pew Internet & American Life Project compiled a report on the use of the Internet in daily life. The report states that 88 percent of Americans use the Internet in their daily lives. Moreover, 64 percent of Internet users admitted that the loss of Internet access would affect their day-to-day activities. Social media and networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, have experienced an astounding 774 percent increase between 2006 and 2007, states a 2007 comScore study. In fact, NetRatings, Inc., a respected provider of Internet media and market research, reported in May of 2006 that the number of individuals using MySpace had reached a staggering 38.4 million unique visitors. It is evident that the integration of technology into daily life—from obtaining research data to making weekend plans—has altered the way we live our lives.
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The virtual world of eLearning and online education is packed full of buzzwords and jargon that can be quite confusing to both potential students and institutions seeking to provide new distance learning services. Much of the miscommunication surrounds technology, which remains an area of great confusion to many computer users. However, with a little explanation of how the process works and what technologies are used to produce online education, this disorientation can be remedied.
At the heart of every distance learning program is a Learning Management System (LMS), a software application designed to facilitate the planning, storage and delivery of the online learning process. In order to better serve its clients, Learning House. Inc. offers the option to customize a Learning Management System to the individual needs of a client. In building online campuses for small colleges and universities, Learning House goes the extra mile to integrate various Learning Management Systems with a client’s goals and business platforms.
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Louisville, KY-Move over text-based courses, the Live Classroom has entered the world of online education.
The Learning House, Inc. (www.learninghouse.com) has upgraded to Live Classroom 5.0-Wimba’s fully-featured virtual classroom-including collaborative components such as video and Voice-over IP, immediate student polling, and application sharing. Now, Learning House staff gives an insider’s perspective on the most collaborative technology for online education and what it can do for your campus.
In a two-day seminar, all Learning House staff took part in Wimba’s Live Classroom training sessions. Whether new to the program or an experienced user, Learning House staff easily saw the numerous benefits provided by Wimba technology. “It takes what the instructor wants and brings it to life,” remarked Dr. Dot Heady, Learning House Curriculum Developer.
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Learning House houses its servers at Peak 10 Tier 1 Data Center. The hosting of its learning management systems (LMS) on its IBM servers, allows Learning House to provide a set of very unique services to small colleges, businesses, and organizations. Learning House can place a client on a level playing field with its major competitors by providing the best equipment and software to conduct business without any capital outlay. These savings are substantial to the client.
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The online textbook developed by Learning House provides a diverse, comprehensive and progressive approach to teaching and learning. In my review of external textbooks I found the texts, for the most part, to be cumbersome and indirect. The online textbook eliminates all of the guesswork for the students and enables them to explore not only the developed text but also a larger global world through links to current articles, books and research.
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If you are an instructor or student online and have not had the chance to experience LearningEdge Live, then you are missing the best online education has to offer. LearningEdge Live Classroom has changed the way students and instructors experience online learning. Using a computer, speakers, microphone and an Internet connection, students and instructors are able to attend a live class session online in which all participants can speak to each other.
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The largest need in web technologies is seen in digital sciences teaching as they require much information which must be exact and clear for understanding. For example, modern math teaching can apply web technologies. With the realization that new methods of teaching math are needed to improve student comprehension, this investigation considers the use of a web-based activity for teaching students the basic premises of quadrilaterals. Given the fact that web-based activities can help students learn difficult mathematic concepts in a more concrete manner, there is a clear need to consider what has been noted about web-based applications in the process of teaching.
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Considering the efforts directed towards Integration of Technologies in Teaching and Learning, digital content and networked applications have launched e-learning to the forefront. Well documented comprehensive content has clubbed learning sciences and pedagogical effectiveness to deliver high quality e-learning solutions for educational institutions.
e-learning is an interactive learning tool where learning content is available online and provides automatic feedback to a student’s learning activities. E-learning focuses on learning content on a topic and can be viewed as an online descendant of Computer Based Training and Computer Aided Instruction.
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