Setting up VoIP with Adobe Connect Pro

Made this video the other day to help with the challenges of using VoIP with Adobe Connect. Maybe someone will find it useful.

The Future of Online Learning

I predict that in ten years there will be no such thing as “online learning”. There will be only learning; all learning will be to some degree online. Students will choose to what degree based upon their personal learning preferences and the availability of course sections in relation to their location and schedule. Sloan-C recently [...]

Plug -n- Play

Yesterday, I tried helping a faculty connect his class here on campus with another class at a high school several hundred miles away. Their plan was to discuss issues of diversity using a combination of teleconferencing and web-conferencing solutions. The arrangements had been made ahead of time and the faculty on my end had been [...]

Blended or Mixed-delivery?

Our institution of higher ed began using web-conferencing about a year ago. By the end of the year we had 100 host licenses. A host is a user who can initiate a meeting/training/support session. Attendees need not have a license – just hosts. I began using it to permit faculty to connect to our weekly [...]

The “Online” Continuum

We often talk about online delivery in terms of “fully-online”, as opposed to blended/mixed, or enhanced. These conversations tend to try and clarify what considerations we should take when designing and delivering instruction and training. However, I think we need to further consider whether these are distinct modalities, or a continuum. Fully-online (asynchronous) Online (w/ [...]