Web conferencing: the future of training?
By Tom Stroud (August 2005 Issue)
0 Comments 
Article Rating: 
Email to a friend | Print Version
What is web conferencing and what opportunities does it offer as a training delivery method within a blended learning programme? Tom Stroud highlights its strengths and weaknesses, and demonstrates its application in organisations today.
Our approach to the process of learning is continually changing. Historically, learning was seen as a rather formal and structured process, instead of something that is ongoing and continual. Today, it is widely accepted that learning should be part of our everyday life and never more so than within the workplace.
The use of blended learning combined with different methods of delivery has increased significantly in recent years. It has been recognised that this more holistic approach is extremely successful at delivering many learning objectives and one which can easily be adapted for the modern workplace.
Web conferencing really comes into its own is when you need to deliver interactive training to a geographically dispersed group of employees. Because participants access the conference over the internet, it is possible for employees working almost anywhere in the world to attend a training session, no matter where the presenter is located.
What is web conferencing?
Although web conferencing in various forms has been around for quite sometime, it is only in the last couple of years that the technology has evolved and developed into the secure and reliable solutions we see today.
We have only displayed above the opening paragraph of this article. If you are a TJ subscriber, login now so you can download a PDF of this article in full, free of charge. For non-subscribers the PDF can be purchased for £9.00 see the "Buy Now" Option above.
Readers Comment
Be the first to comment on this news story
Buy Now
You can download this article free by subscribing and logging in as a Full TJ member
Price: £0.00
Articles from this Issue
- Training Journal interview: Danah Zohar
- Worry - a wasted emotion?
- Relevance
- The challenge of the Outdoors
- Web conferencing: the future of training?
- Accelerated Learning: Myth or magic?
- NLP: Business as a foreign language
- Getting on track: what's new in fast learning
- Hot fashions in training
- E-xposing and e-spousing
- The most precious resource?
- Netcheck
- Distributing questionnaires