E-meeting is getting more and more common for companies when presenting their products range or services. They may aim at adressing more people, at getting rid of physical frontiers or quite simply at reducing costs and time. In fact e-meeting may not always take place without  physical meeting at one point or another… although undoubtedly it helps to value such meetings.

Here is a good illustration for the e-meeting concept:

E-meetings are organized via tools named “virtual classes”. Over last years those classes got to be more easy to get installed. Ergonomy got better, commercial offers were more numerous which means today that their use is at everyone’s stake.

To get an idea about the advantages of the tools, why don’t you start using them to enhance your phone meetings first? When you publish a slideshow, it will help having your message spread and if you use such solutions you will get ahead from your competitors.

VoIP or phone communication?

Most of virtual classes offer VoIP solutions to communicate with microphones and headphones. There are two advantages:

• no communication cost
• recording of synchronous exchanges with screen share

Yet the host will have to get used to VoIP inconvenients: a short delay of 1 to 3 seconds.
As to participants, using VoIP implies they have some technical abilities and a high quality Internet connexion. In other cases, most people will choose to communicate on the phone.

Whatever you decide to do, you should begin the meeting on the phone thus you will be able to accompany participants in handling their connexion to the e-meeting and you will be sure they won’t miss the appointment According to their number, I strongly advise you to begin that way. What’s more, it is much helpful in case of technical problems. Many will pay phone calls rather than cancel a meeting!

Participants being at ease is important. Whether by VoIP or phone, it is better to use a headphone with integrated microphone. The headphone will keep your hands free and also will low down surroundings sounds.

Yet on the phone there is no recording possible… too bad as it is much rewarding to learn from them about their abilities… and very useful for participants to watch meetings again!

How to use chat?

Chat does not permit true exchanges although it turns out to be useful during a meeting:

• to get the assurance that participants can hear one another
• to allow participants to speak one after the other (the host is the one to be heard otherwise)
• to encourage participants to ask questions
• to have private exchanges (ask for one person to intervene in particular, for instance)

In a webinar with several participants, you may find it interesting to have two hosts at the same time. One will give the tune and the other will concentrate on chat: communication will therefore be nice both orally and on the screen!

Chat is completeley useless in the case of a one-to-one meeting.

What about screen sharing?

Screen sharing makes it posible to view the host’s screen for participants. Technical solutions are getting more efficient, thanks to Flash technology for one: screen sharing is among the most common functionalities.

There are two types:

• slideshow publication
• application sharing whether Desk or software

Slideshow publication is being democratized thanks to 2.0 collaborative tools, or the import of Powerpoint slideshows. If that functionality turns out to be sufficient for your projects, have a look at vyew.com.

When sharing your screen, choose one or two applications not the whole desktop. That way you will open a booknote unviewed by other participants ;). On the contrary ask for participants to have their desktop shared. You’ll get an overall idea that will help:

• identify unwished software (that is heavy on the Web for instance)
• check if participants are doing something else (personal emailing, chat or whatever!)
• identify specific technical troubles (Windows security or virus alerts)

Whatever technical solution is choosen when presenting a software, you are bound to notice a delay of seconds between what you show and what is seen by participants. Quite unnoticeable in the very beginning it grows more and more and counts up to several seconds 20 minutes later. It depends on each person’s web connexion (host and participants). As broadband varies, the delay will change accordingly during the session.

To try and reduce or stop such delay, virtual classes propose to postpone sharing or modify screen appearance frequency. You may also wish to reinitialize you connexion.

What about video?

Video exchanging means all particpants have a high quality Internet connexion. That is most unrealistic thus to get video all along the session. On the contrary it may be used as a welcoming video introducing people and also at the end when quitting the session on friendly faces.

If meetings do require video most of the time, I advise you check every Internet connexion that will be used! Note that personal ADSL connexion (at home) is often better than that at work. Indeed if better in quality undoubtedly, professionnal connexion is shared by numerous people.

Get trained!

Do you wish to host suh a meeting? Then connect yourself to a test webinar (provided that you can handle two computers at work: the first one as host and the other as participant). You can get trained by watching the participant’s screen: you will get an idea how works the delay mentioned in the post.

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Homo sapiens continuus. The emergence of a new species of learners

A 7 pages pdf presenting data of internet presence and community participation for a typical teen.

Of interest: “Emily might be “slow” at school, but she’s like a hurricane online. Her mobile connected lifestyle has changed her educational and social experience.”

[Source: http://www.learning-activities.org]

Formation, travail et professionnalisation

Quelques réflexions après la lecture de l’ouvrage “Formation, travail et professionnalisation” coordonné par Richard Wittorski (L’Harmattan septembre 2005).

Le formateur présentiel qui suit une formation pour intégrer du distant dans sa pratique se trouve aux confins de plusieurs savoirs qu’il va devoir réinterroger, confronter aux savoirs des autres apprenants de son groupe de formation pour construire de nouveaux savoirs adaptés à la nouvelle mission qui lui incombe.

Van Der Maren distingue cinq savoirs : les « savoirs scientifiques », les « savoirs appliqués », les « savoirs stratégiques » (savoirs pour l’action), les « savoirs praxiques » (savoirs d’action) et les « savoirs pratiques » (savoirs en action)…
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La Formation, c’est l’affaire de tous

La formation, c’est l’affaire de tous. Ce n’est pas du temps perdu. C’est un investissement aussi bien pour l’entreprise que pour ses salariés. Responsable de formation, c’est : Accompagner et anticiper le développement des compétences des collaborateurs. Concevoir et organiser l’ingénierie de la formation, adapter les programmes existants …
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La formation est dépassée !

Pourquoi la formation formelle n’est-elle plus suffisante ?
Lorsque nous parlons de formation ou pensons à une “formation”, nous sous-entendons pour la plupart, qu’il s’agit de formation formelle, c’est-à-dire d’une formation avec un cadre bien défini, des objectifs pédagogiques, un formateur, professeur ou maître, un cursus, un dispositif pour évaluer, un calendrier, un diplôme ou un certificat.

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Formation Informelle suite et fin

L’apprenance est et sera de plus en plus nécessaire à chacun. Pour avancer concrètement, nous répondrons ici à trois questions :

• Comment apprendre l’apprenance ?
• Comment développer à la fois sa motivation pour appréhender par soi-même et avec d’autres des connaissances informelles ?
• Quels contextes, formels eux, proposer ou mettre en œuvre ?

Des expériences et services innovants, des contextes favorables peuvent nous montrer la voie. Voici 4 exemples concrets et prometteurs, tous différents, qui illustrent la tendance de fond en train d’émerger.
[Source: http://connecteur.blogspirit.com]

Profweb 2.0 : Donner un cours de droit à partir de chez-soi : une expérience hors du commun

J’enseigne, depuis plus de huit années, différents cours en lien avec le programme Agents et courtiers en assurance de personnes (LCA.1P) à la formation continue. Au début, je devais me déplacer pour rencontrer mon groupe, mais avec l’accroissement des possibilités d’Internet, le collège pour lequel je travaille a opté pour l’utilisation d’une plateforme de visioconférence. Au départ, j’ai éprouvé une certaine inquiétude, car je ne pourrais pas voir les participants, mais je me suis lancé dans l’aventure. Depuis, j’apprécie grandement enseigner de chez-moi. Voici comment cela se passe…

[Source: http://www.profweb.qc.ca]

Sondage : la vidéo conférence dans votre entreprise

Voilà quelques jours, le Journal du Net a publié un sondage intitulé “Utilisez-vous la vidéo conférence dans votre entreprise ?”. Alors, je ne vais pas polémiquer sur la pertinence des réponses, la qualité … [Source: http://www.live-session.fr]

L’apprentissage coopératif

5 Eléments fondamentaux de l’apprentissage coopératif “Juste parce que vous mettez les élèves en groupes ne signifie pas qu’ils vont travailler comme une équipe.” L’interdépendance positive est bien structuré quand les membres du groupe estiment qu’ils sont liés les uns aux autres d’une manière que l’on ne peut … [Source: http://90plan.ovh.net]

Contribuer, échanger, participer

La motivation d’une personne à contribuer, échanger, participer avec d’autres au sein de l’entreprise constitue le prérequis indispensable à tout projet de KM ou de travail collaboratif. Inutile d’investir des sommes colossales dans le développement d’une interface homme machine (IHM) révolutionnaire …
[Source: http://www.collaboraction.fr]

Formateur n’est plus un métier d’avenir

Par eric delcroix, lundi 28 avril 2008 à 22:41 :: Formation & éducation :: #2923 :: rss
Depuis pas mal d’années (20 ans), vous le savez certainement je côtoie de près la monde de la formation professionnelle, principalement celui de la formation continue, soit pour de la délégation auprès de centre de formations et/ou de revendeurs informatique…
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Le conseil en évaluation de la formation : kézako ?

Au tout début de mes formations à l’évaluation des formations, je procède toujours au traditionnel tour de table. Je demande donc aux stagiaires de se présenter rapidement, d’expliquer ce qu’ils font actuellement en matière d’évaluation des formations et ce qu’ils souhaitent faire à l’issue de la formation.
[Source: http://blog.formaeva.com]

Mondes persistants et enseignement à distance : de nouvelles perspectives ?

Mondes persistants et enseignement à distance : de nouvelles perspectives ?
C’est le titre de l’intervention de deux chercheurs, Philippe Bonfils et Philippe Dumas, du laboratoire I3M - Information, Milieux, Médias, Médiations, à l’occasion du colloque TiceMed 07 qui eut lieu à…
[Source: http://www.vagabondages.org]

Le tutorat virtuel et affectif arrive

Ceux et celles qui ont suivi des cours de formation à distance ont probablement eu l’occasion d’être accueillies et guidés dans leur apprentissage par un tuteur virtuel. Ces tuteurs sont de plus en plus élaborés, humanisés… ils ne sont plus ceux qu’ils étaient il y a quelques années.
[Source: http://www.savoirsenreseau.com]

Adobe Connect Professionnal 7

La toute nouvelle version d’Adobe Connect Professionnal est disponible. C’est une évolution majeure qui apporte des fonctionnalités vraiment clés pour l’animation efficace de formations et de réunions rapides et en direct.Voici les nouveautés les plus importantes :

• Organisez des sous groupes : l’animateur(trice) peut organiser les participants en groupe de travail (ou ateliers séparés) pour les faire travailler sur une activité ou un exercice en particulier (seul ou à plusieurs).Quand il le souhaite, il réintègre tous les participants dans la salle principale. La visite de chaque sous groupe est possible.
• Editez les sessions enregistrées
• Calendrier des sessions
• Exercices interactifs
• Meilleures gestion des droits de paroles

[Source: http://www.live-session.fr]

La fin de l’innovation éducative ?

Nicholas Negroponte, le promoteur de l’organisation un ordinateur portable par enfant (One Laptop per child, Olpc) vient d’annoncer officiellement que Windows équipera de prochaines versions de son ordinateur. Selon Negroponte, la compatibilité …
[Source: http://www.internetactu.net]

Le nomadisme digital

C’est un des premiers articles que je vois sur la nouvelle ère du nomadisme dans la presse “grand public”. L’Economiste insiste beaucoup plus que je ne le fais sur l’importance du “sans fil” dans le développement du nomadisme et sur la façon dont l’espace …
[Source: http://www.speechi.net]

One Laptop per child

J’ai vraiment imaginé que pour une fois l’enjeu ce ce type de projet pouvait être d’abord et surtout autre chose qu’un enjeu commercial…les doutes m’assaillent à la lecture de cet article…manque plus que MAC ! Le discours autour de ce projet va vraisemblablement s’ancrer dans l’injonction paradoxale…la dépendance : le prix à payer pour la liberté ? Cela dit, les enfants ont des talents surprenants pour dépasser les paradoxes et s’extraire des dépendances…Et dans ce cas précis, notre responsabilité de les y accompagner est engagée !
[Source: http://florencemeichel.blogspot.com]

5 conditions pour le travail en ligne

Lorsqu’un collectif de travail (on peut appeler ça “groupe de travail” ou “équipe projet”, bien que ces termes désignent des réalités différentes) se lance dans une expérience de travail collaboratif en ligne, je lui recommande de veiller à réunir, autant que faire se peut, les 5 conditions de succès suivantes : Le groupe …
[Source: http://travailcollaboratif.typepad.com]

Livre blanc sur le mobile learning

Le Mobile Learning ou mLearning va se développer dans les années à venir. Avec la puissance des téléphones portables dernières générations et la sophistication des applications qu’ils peuvent faire tourner on peut dire que la techno…
[Source: http://www.live-session.fr]

Dissuader d’Investir en Formation

Faisant suite au commentaire d’une lectrice attentive de ce blog, je souhaitais faire part de mon opinion sur le Droit Individuel à la Formation (DIF). De nombreux acteurs de la formation s’accordent à dire que le DIF est une bonne chose, même s’il a fallu que les responsables formation fassent preuve d’habileté pour ne pas faire exploser leur budg…
[Source: http://blog.formaeva.com]

Une thèse française sur les Serious Games !

Julian Alvarez, Docteur en science de la communication et de l’information (IRIT - Université de Toulouse III) et auteur d’applications multimédia, vient de publier sa thèse sur les Serious Games intitulée: “Du Jeu vidéo au Serious Game, approches culturelle, pragmatique et formelle”…
[Source: http://www.jeux-serieux.fr]

Learning Game

Le Learning Game : un nouveau concept et un nouveau mot, qu’il va falloir rajouter à votre lexique de technopédagogue. Ce concept, qui s’intègre dans l’e-learning, cherche à placer l’apprenant dans une situation d’apprentissage attrayante et motivante.
Pourtant la définition du « Learning Game » ressemble à celle du « Serious Game ». D’après les cr…
[Source: http://blog.emandarine.net]

Mikogo: partager un écran

On peut utiliser Mikogo avec n’importe quel messanger, voire avec un téléphone classique. J’ai tester rapidement le système et je trouve la connexion tout à fait classique … Sympa.
[Source: http://blogveilleflorencemeichel.blogspot.com]

Les deux grands apports du TNI

Pour beaucoup d’enseignants qui utilisent le TNI avec leurs élèves, deux aspects reviennent fréquemment et semblent les plus importants. Le premier est la mémorisation. L’enseignant conserve grâce au logiciel les tracés effectués à l’aide du TNI, ceux qu’il a effectués mais aussi et surtout ceux des élèves. Il dispose ainsi des remarques, des propositions des élèves de la classe de … Cet aspect est donc d’un grand intérêt pédagogique. Au tableau blanc classique, conserver les traces des propositions élèves avec leur intitulé exact s’avère impossible mais le TNI conserve tout. Il permet de valoriser le travail des élèves. (…) Le second est l’interactivité avec les élèves. Le TNI facilite la participation des élèves et les motive davantage. leur attention est aussi beaucoup plus forte. Apprendre en faisant est de toute façon beaucoup plus efficace.
[Source: http://blogpeda.ac-poitiers.fr]

Culture et Formation et la formation E-learning

Culture et Formation, l’école spécialiste en secrétariat médical lance une nouvelle formation : la formation de secrétaire médicale en e-learning. Le E-learning, kezako ? Formation en ligne, cours par internet, plusieurs expressions francisées définissent simplement ce qu’est le e-learning. Plus précisément, il s’agit d’utiliser…
[Source: http://www.presse-fr.com]

Apprenance ambiante

En réfléchissant autour des Digital Literacy, un vision s’est imposée naturellement : celle de l’apprenance ambiante, dont on pourrait dire qu’elle serait le moteur d’une société apprenante en devenir ! Pour expliquer cette vision, je vais tenter un cas de figure : Imaginons : dans le cadre de mon travail, je suis amenée à publier différents contenus sur le web…A l’instant t, mon patron vient me demander de publier une vidéo sur le blog de l’entreprise ! je n’ai jamais réalisé ce genre de travail ? Je lance une recherche sur mon navigateur : “comment publier une vidéo sur un blog ?”
[Source: http://florencemeichel.blogspot.com]

Supercoolschool : quand le rêve d’un homme devient réalité !

J’ai eu la chance de suivre ce projet au travers de mes discussions avec Steli et j’ai vu son rêve prendre forme…je lui tire mon chapeau devant tant de détermination et d’énergie pour faire aboutir ce projet ! Supercoolschool est un espace qui donne l’opportunité à chacun de demander ou de proposer une formation dans un domaine de son choix : les sujets sont variés comme le laisse deviner la page d’accueil ! Si vous êtes demandeur : une classe virtuelle s’ouvre lorsque vous faite votre demande de formation et elle deviendra effective lorsque 7 autres apprenants et un formateur auront manifesté leur intérêt pour la formation en s’inscrivant a leur tour ! Si vous êtes formateur : une classe virtuelle s’ouvre lorsque vous faites votre proposition de formation et elle deviendra effective lorsque 8 apprenants auront manifesté leur intérêt pour la formation en s’inscrivant !
[Source: http://blogveilleflorencemeichel.blogspot.com]

Du tableau noir au “cyber-tableau”

Il s’agit de notes prises lors de l’atelier. Logiciel de vidéoconférence sketch pad, service inclus dans Skype. Projet de Alain qui voulait expérimenter la vidéo-conférence en lien avec l’univers social (géographie). Le projet a ensuite évolué en mathématique et le français. Avec ce type de projet, il arrive qu’il y ait des pépins techniques; comme avec n’importe quel logiciel. Difficulté aussi d’arrimer l’horaire des deux classes participantes. Difficulté de Sketch pad: Il ne faut pas oublier de cliquer les paramètres pour utiliser l’application avec Skype, sinon il n’est pas possible d’utiliser l’outil. Les élèves ont installé Skype à la maison puisqu’il est gratuit. Il est possible de présumer qu’ils utilisent l’outil en dehors de la classe. Donc, l’outil favorise la communication et la télécollaboration; ce qui change la façon d’enseigner. Skype demeure sécuritaire car il faut accepter d’échanger avec d’autres personnes. C’est une bonne occasion d’éduquer les élèves à une utilisation adéquate des outils de communication. Le projet suscite la motivation des élèves et permet le développement des compétences. Interaction intéressante entre une école de la ville et une école de la campagne.
[Source: http://recit.org]

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The document shows what 2.0 services can bring in professional efficiency and how helpful they can be regarding team work!

You can find the source in SlideShare, the author is Janet Clarey :

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Here is another one, less sensational but the concept happens to be more understandable:

Pdf presentation by Cisco: cisco.com
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Encourager la mobilité ou réduire la distance ?

La mobilité est-elle l’avenir du travail ? Nous ne le pensons pas. Nous croyons même que ce concept de mobilité cache l’essentiel, beaucoup plus intéressant pour les entreprises et pour les salariés : la réduction des distances. Quelle importance, pourrait-on se demander…

Plugin Googlemap pour Dokeos

Je viens de réaliser un plugin pour Dokeos. Il a pour but d’afficher une carte Googlemaps sur la page d’accueil qui localise les tuteurs et apprenants de la plateforme. Le simple visiteur peut afficher le profil des tuteurs mais pas des apprenants. L’utilisateur logué peut afficher tous les profils dans l’infobulle.

Ma vision du mobile learning

On entend de plus en plus parler de Mobile Learning ou mlearning, l’apprentissage supporté par les technologies mobiles telles les assistants personnels du type Palm ou Bluetooth ou encore les lecteurs médias tels les Ipod. Ici encore, comme dans le cas du learning 2.0, on assiste à mon avis à une forme d’excitation exagérée.

Je saisis l’occasion d’un article sur le Web 2.0, appliqué à l’éducation

Cet article conduit vers une source exposant l’apport du Web2.0 à l’éducation, qui pourrait donner à penser que le Web 2.0 n’ouvre que sur des collaborations aléatoires, déterritorialisées.

Formation continue : E-learning

Les réticences de la fin des années 90 liées à l’e-learning ont disparu; la technologie s’est améliorée. Il n’en fallait pas plus pour que la Cegos, le spécialiste de la formation continue, revienne en force sur ce marché. La société proposera, dès la mi-janvier, 80 modules de 30 minutes chacun.

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What’s New?

• Reinforcement of Web Services architecture, with the full support of the WSDL standard, numerous new components and connectors: Microsoft Dynamics, Mondrian, Palo, Weka, Vertica, iReports, etc.
• Support for Slowly Changing Dimensions (types 1, 2 & 3) has been expanded to include the following databases: IBM DB2, Ingres, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Sybase ASE
• Enhancements to manage the error: OnComponentError link & OnSubjobError link
• Enhancements to the Trace Mode: pause/resume capabilities, expand/collapse options
• Enhancement to the component settings: the Properties panel become Basic Settings and Advanced Settings

Training on Talend Open Studio updated

Community Ressources:
To have ready-to-use Job Designs at your disposal, import the Demo Project include in Talend Open Studio. Don’t know whether your most wanted component is already included in Talend Open Studio? Simply access the exhaustive list of components, and check out the real-time udpates.

Professional Services:
Don’t hesitate to ask the Talend training team (training(at)talend.com) if you have any specific need or requirement: specific dates, classes in other languages, in other countries, on site, etc. For more informations, please visit http://www.talend.com

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2.0 from the point of view of the technical expert

The first websites were only 5 to 10 page sites, simple and with no interactivity. Technology has given tools to meet greater interactivity. The Flash format and the FLEX development solution are worthwhile, Xml is everywhere, AJAX is getting much present, widgets and mashup are common concepts to technical people.

The word 2.0 is there to define websites that use the latest technology tools to offer richer web media, that is more ergonomic, friendly and faster too. Users therefore can handle websites in a more efficient manner: they benefit from the best of NTIC!

In the same time softwares are downloadable online with offered services. The name for this is SaaS: Software as a Service.

For a technician, the concept 2.0 is to be associated to specific technologies.

2.0 from the point of view of the user

The first websites were only written pieces of information usually to be met in companies’ traditional communication media. The aim was that of advertising and marketing mostly. Html often was the langage used for such static websites and sometimes you could come across images. Users would mainly check their email messages; in fact, there were few individuals implied.

Websites became more dynamic thanks to langages servers. Contents get richer and become true information sources. Thus for the user Internet is now something renewed with the first forums for instance. Then are the wikis, the RSS flux, the blogs. From a simple reader he has become an author and a content producer. There is new interactivity between users and websites’ authors. And between users themselves. Possibly many people link P2P to Web 2.0.

There is another change with the websurfer adapting interfaces to his needs. Choice of language, of colors, of characters and above all of selected information. That way he can really get implied into the world web… and into social networking.

Creating 2.0 services has definitely allowed to get 2.0 successful. Websites are then dedicated to users’ needs, that is the aim is to offer services rather than merely making profit. Creatives Commons licences officialized individuals’ content production and sharing.

For the user, Web 2.0 is a tool. It is an information tool that can be shared and can raise collaborative work. Undoubtedly many users get to the Web with the Web 2.0. Not before!

2.0 from the point of view of the sceptical people

Web 2.0 is a marketing word, a buzzword. In this respect Web 2.0 led to new commercial and marketing practices and/or abuses. Advertising is everywhere and sticks to users’ profiles. Written information is reused improperly, even avatars are created with propaganda purpose! More chocking is the fact that detailed information can be gathered to know more about your personnality and about your opinions!

This is much alarming indeed. Yet I don’t think the phenomenon 2.0 has anything to do with it, instead its use must be watched out!

E-business 2.0

Here is a website richcommerce.fr that gives updated news and trends about rich interfaces regarding E-business, it was launched by Fred Cavazza and François Ziserman. The most interesting idea about E-business I read is there: Vendre du textile à la 2.0 ! As one would expect it, E-business marketers know how to make money!

E-business 2.0 is a reality: users’ participation is even looked after.

Enterprise 2.0

Enterprises obviously were to join the party! With langages servers came intranets. Gathering and capitalization are important words to all companies and computing solutions have always been looked after. At the beginning information was pushed to employees but after a while new solutions were found to collect information. Web 2.0 has changed the way we use the Internet. Intranets take into account the capacity for employees to produce content. To get more information about it, here is an article I wrote: Entreprise 2.0. I stress on the fact that enterprises should consider the phenomenon 2.0.

Enterprise 2.0 is necessary. There is a true change in employees regarding the phenomenon 2.0.

E-learning 2.0

E-learning has been the first area to benefit from Web 2.0 technologies. Before this, e-learning platforms were only but static websites with no real success. Yet the concept E-learning 2.0 defines the place that is given to the user himself : he is in the heart of the learning solution and is no longer a spectator only. E-learning 2.0 also means cooperation, exchange and content production between one employee to another or to others. As a conclusion I see no difference between e-learning and e-learning 2.0, but I do understand when a user or a customer rather uses the latter expression!

E-learning 2.0 is no new, the fact that we say 2.0 is.

Education 2.0

Here is an interesting discussion about the concept Education 2.0 on the network Apprendre 2.0. It has to do with professionnal people willing to have the educational system evolve. To my opinion, the evolution that is needed has more to do with developing collaboration and exchange, with placing trainees in the heart of learning solutions, with transforming them into real actors rather than with using 2.0 technologies.

I am professionnally tempted to believe in Education 2.0 indeed. It may only be a transition phase… so what!

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In the Open Source market, the licences aren’t linked to a cost. The autonomy of users and the existence of related communities even make it possible to have no contact with the editor

Last years users of open source solutions were to be met in training more often. The training activity is becoming one of the most representative indicators for the adoption of open source technology. L’observatoire du logiciel libre - Observatory of Free Software - bases its analysis on developments in the training market and published a few days ago the “Baromètre des tendances 2007-2008 du logiciel libre“, that is the barometer for 2007-2008.

I was pleased to read that the Business Intelligence is the most dynamic segment with a growth of over 386%. The software Talend Open Studio is quoted many times and appears at the top of trends for 2007 and 2008!

Here are 2 extracts:

Among the leaders in the field, JasperSoft (BI) and Talend (ETL) focus on the segment of the decision-making “operational”.

This tool integration is the undisputed star of the year 2007 (…) The number of training sessions should at least double next year because Open Studio meets two needs: integrating applications between them, and preparing BI data projects.The complete study can be freely downloaded at: http://www.ob2l.com. It is a Creative Commons publication.
About the Observatoire des logiciels libres

The barometer was created by Anaska and ib-Groupe Cegos in 2005. Its goal is to make a point every 6 months of the market of open source software based on the training market. All the indicators that appear in the survey are based on a comparison with a volume of activity between 2006 and 2007 and are based on a panel of about 2000 trained people.

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Here are the current list:

• Moins d’un salarié sur deux connaît le DIF
• Panorama du Web 2.0 pour la formation : e-learning Bretagne
• Formation continue, enseignement, e-learning… bref, l’apprentissage
• Le e-learning est mort ! Vive le e-learning !
• Quel(s) outil(s) choisir pour le elearning?
• Conférence sur l’entreprise 2.0
• eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts: eLearning 1.0 Ecosystem and eLearning 2.0 Ecosystem
• Des accointances du e-learning avec la certification…
• L’affaire du e-learning
• Nomadisme, religion, mécanique quantique et enseignement
• Ne publiez pas la feuille de route de vos produits !
• e-learning open source : une alternative très sérieuse
• Cofundos.org: Financemenent collaboratif pour projets open-source
• L’entreprise est-elle fair-play ?

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The categories are: Networks educational videos, Learning tutorials sharing, Community and languages, Flash Cards, Mind maps, Tutoring and online courses, Course notes online, Universities 2.0, Second Life, Serious Games, Mobile Learning 2.0, Services & Tools 2.0, Education 2.0.

Very pleasant to read! However synchronous tools are not that much emphasized. I mean the virtual classrooms, software and services dedicated to collaboration and instant messaging often associated to VoIP and video. These features make it possible to establish a direct and synchronous relationship between trainees and trainers… A relationship vital to the process for accompanying the training. These features allow to produce at distance the same quality as in traditional training.

These technologies must be accompanied by a strong leadership change so that users do not feel technology and distant training as a bad point.

Years after, elearning remains worthwile. The elearning meets indeed several strong companies’needs:

• geographical constraints: grouping all participants in a single classroom
• planning constraints: impossible to stop the production / matching the schedules of all participants
• the most effective in the shortest time

The synchronous technology meets the first constraint by allowing the organization of sessions with participants from different geographical areas. However, the animation of a collective session in elearning is not that easy. Many of the “signals” that the trainer is usually aware of won’t exist in virtual classrooms. The animation of a 10 people group is not easy in physical meetings, you can imagine the difficulties that may arise in elearning!

The solution preferred by the majority of companies is therefore to organize short and individual courses. Is it financially worthwile? The elearning will eliminate costs generated by the training attendance (lack of office, transport, lunch, accommodation), the financial gain is so important that individualized elearning training turns out indeed to be worthwile.

It should be noted that these tools won’t do everything! They are however interesting additions to any other educational solution. Used before or after traditional training or asynchronous training, these technologies help to enhance the interaction between participants and trainers.

These allow technology to individualize training and meet the needs of the learner in the most efficient way possible. For all these reasons, the elearning surely has many good points to offer!

I invite you to read these 2 posts (in French) from les z’ed:

• formation continue, enseignement, e-learning… bref, l’apprentissage
• formation continue, enseignement, e-learning… la suite en liens

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Participants are growing and they happen to come from diverse universes. If subjects are quite varied, they are all about the same thing: passion for sharing knowledge!

You can write in English or French … yet French is for the moment the most common use. That network is open to all and to quote the welcome message, “the only constraints are to subscribe and develop exchanges and ideas in mutual respect!“. The url is: http://apprendre2point0.org.

About her profile, Florence says : “I act within the network Apprendre 2.0 as an independent person: no company behind! … I hope that we all get back new skills from this shared experience so that they are enhanced in each one’s specific area!”

The platform is Ning. It is composed of a multi-author blog, a forum and a mailing box. Many functionalities and as much as RSS feeds. That is you must be technically aware to benefit from all of them! Otherwise you will stick to the main ones only. (update: in 2011, the network leave Ning and migrate on a open-source architecture)

To get an idea of the latest messages:

The code for the banner is:

<p style="margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:0; padding-bottom:0; text-align:center; line-height:0">
	<a href="http://apprendre2point0.ning.com/">
	<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Forum-Apprendre20.1.gif" alt="Forum - Apprendre 2.0" style="border:0">
	</a>
</p>

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Click on the Play button, and then click the Menu button to access other videos.

Via profession-web.ch.

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Everyone has its own definition for Web 2.0. With this video, people may share the same point of view.

The Thot newsletter says that Mike Wesh works in the Department of Ethnography digital Kansas State University.

The video has been used for a long time in the world of Education and Training. Today I observe a revival, certainly a consequence of the popularity of sharing videos services. Short, attractive, they use images to go along with words … And they can be shared endlessly

Source : Thot via ElearningSpace

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The tax and the financing depend on several laws… and these laws are often updated. In this context, it’s very interesting to subscribe to professional services.

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SparkAngels

SparkAngels claims to be the first online coaching service. It is a collaborative tool limited to two people: a user and his coach, the SparkAngel.

VoIP communication and instant messenger allow the two people to communicate. The service makes it possible to access the desktop from distance and to guide the user through popups for instance. Technically there is no need for any communication port but downloading may be required (Java Webstart app).

The aim is to tackle digital exclusion to give a solution so that ” skills among certain types of population may be shared with other people unfamiliar with technology“. The thing now is to develop places where those people get access to computers and benefit from the solution.

There is a professionnal offer too, it is possible to customize the application with personal logos instead of SparkAngel ones. Darty, a French company, chose their solution last month and proposes a distant DartyBox support. DartyBox is a French box to provide internet connexion, VoIP and video

Widgets should soon be available to be inserted in websites to facilitate the relation between users and SparkAngel.

DimDim

update of January 2011: Salesforce.com Acquires Dimdim. The GPL version is always available, but it’s not sure that we can benefit of new enhancement. If you have an interest for DimDim, stay tuned

A true virtual class. Slides import, desktop and applications sharing, audio and video communication, multi-users instant messenger, invitation by mail. DimDim may be integrated with Moddle and Sugar CRM.

The DimDim license is GPL, hosted on sourceforge. Important features are currently on development phase: quizz, recording, links with Outlook and Google Calendar and so on.

Uncommon: the official website explains that “The Dimdim open source edition is meant … for usage in Non-Critical Environments … The Enterprise Edition is a much more stable, scalable and reliable piece of software which is fully supported and certified by Dimdim, the company. The Open source community supports the Open Source edition“.

The company provides you with professional services regarding technical bugs and helps you with the tool.

demo

Elluminate

I read about it on elearning.fr, Elluminate provides a Java virtual class limited to 3 users but free! The look and the features are similar to the Centra Symposium virtual class. I used Centra for five years, here is a screenshot here. Except for its old looking, it seems to be a complete solution and the company offers professional services.

Streaming Rooms

Streaming Rooms provides free virtual rooms to organize your online meetings.

You can publish one or more video feeds: perfect if you want to aggregate videos from different users in a meeting! Only communication is based solely on chat, there is no password protection, no possibility to publish diaporamas, no download zone… it seems the virtual class is dedicated to individuals only.

I found out that Jessy Cyganczuk, the streamingrooms developer, has built up the application in one week end, before going on holidays. Today he is concentrating on other projects

The service, that points out functionalities of an open source framework - CakePhp, makes me think that:

• it is necessary to test thoroughly any new 2.0 tool before considering it is worthwhile
• the development for 2.0 tools is not always time-consuming

One last word…

It is more and more common to get services with paid subscription to turn out free. Functionalities indeed may reveal restrictive but individuals or small companies should find themselves interested in them.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer that solution to those relying on advertising! What’s more, a free service along with a commercial offer guarantees its perennity.

What do you think of it?

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Here is what Epistema - the company - announces on its blog :

“Epistema has decided to concentrate its strategy on e-learning solutions, so our product is no longer on sale. It is obvious that current Callexia customers will benefit from free support for the software until 2009.”
This is to stress on the fact that the choice for a software or a service implies an important criteria : how long will it be available as it is?

Mature open source solutions do respond to that criteria. For instance Talend Open Studio available since last year.

• the source codes are hosted on different websites, which assures their present and future availability - sourceforge, freshmeat
• parterns that integrate Talend Open Studio in their software suites (JasperETL) also assure that the source code is saved and largely published and that the software is intended to evolve
• the developers and users community at last is another assurance for it (click here for more details)

In the case of Callexia, I have heard of no other open source choice except maybe for the two following free services speechi and view.com.

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This tutorial is much original! To present the use of the NTIC, CommonCraft has used several “pieces of paper”. The user is then concentrated on the very purpose of the service and not on the technical aspects. An idea one can follow.

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Subscription and service are totally free, yet Zentation also offers commercial services. You can in this case let them register the video, create the powerpoint and do their synchronization. Another service is the secured hosting of your presentation.

As shows Saleforce, companies can find themselves interested in such a service :

Public videos can be viewed from zentation.com and can be integrated as widgets in other websites, as shown below:

At last, here is the page where you can get familiar with the synchronization of the two:

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I’ve been watching the evolution of the platform for several years now and I’m quite surprised to learn that the visio conference module is now available in free licence. Most of Learning Management System platforms in open source have no streaming audio & video functionalities.

Does it mean you can get the visio conference module for free ? First, this Dokeos module requires a RED5 server … I advise you to rely on Dokeos so that they help you with the installation and the following of the platform. I spent some years in a distant learning training center so take my word when I say do not undermine the necessary skills to manage those services!

To see details of the platform, please visit : http://www.dokeos.com/features.php

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• blank board - the usual electronic paperboard
• slideshows - automatic PDF conversion, Powerpoint, Word, Excel, Flash animation
• screen share for slideshows viewing, work on the blank board and even more sharing of your desktop to handle a software
• instant messenger - public or private chat
• free call conference

Slideshows are often the main tool in a training course, that is in all training sessions you are likely to encounter the same suite. http://vyew.com makes it possible to save slideshows to reuse them.

The free service is limited to 20 participants whereas the subscription service (for less than 20$ a month) can host up to 300 people.

Certainly VoIP and video streaming functionalities would have been great, in the same time their lack avoids further technical constraints necessary for the service! Although the quality of the screen share may result low (as to rapidity and image resolution), it should be enough to meet most of your needs.

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