Second Life Again!

Few weeks ago in the class, we had a second journey in Second Life. I was so excited because I was thinking what the Second Life would look like after one year.

 Then I found it is more interesting then the first time I saw it. But there are sitill some advantages and disadvantages. It’s easy to get lost, I find there is no obvious notice board to show you the way to the place you want to go. And because of technical limitation, it needs faster internet base, otherwise you can’t move around in the Second Life easily. It is also  a  both process and graphic space.

Key educational strenth:

It offers new way thinking about delivering and facillitating. It has the abbility to ask people  to active or engage learninng. It is alos about engaging and activiting and experiencing.

how would u use 2nd life

Learners are taught some courses in 2nd life instead of in TAFE which is being bored. Learners can build up their own knowledge and contexts there not just learn things from others.

The 2nd life is still attracting, but it’s also a bit confusing. It’s getting easier after you keep using it. If it’s your first time to go there, it is better you have a mentor to show you around which like we did in the class. Then you definately think it is a wonderful place!

Webinar–Webex

For our group assignment, I’ve been looking at the area called Webinar. I have no idea before starting doing this assignment. After the research, I just found Webinar has lots of advantages which bring more profit to the company.

 For example, from my case study–Subaru. They use Webex as their webinar to create new training programm for their employees. This software saved the money and time. The dealers just need 10-20 minutes to particiate in the web presentations whenever and wherever they are, at a cost of approximately $0.75 us dollars per person.

So this kind of software is quite convenient for learning. The learners can review and redo all excersise whenever they want and it’s free. More and more company is using webinar to develop their learning system for their employees. Thus, employees’ learning process will more and more effective by use of webinar.

First post of E-learning Design

The class has started for 1 month and I realize that it is the time to start writing my process of this subject, otherwise, Anne won’t forgive me!

During this month, we have done lots of activities so I feel like that I have many things to talk about. I’m happy because I can still wirte something here, use this wonderful blog which is recording my uni life by doing E-learning Design.

This subject is not disappointing me, it is very interesting and exciting. We had research about new technology used in the organizations such as Webinar, Instant Messaging which our group did for the first assignment; we also had DoCS people who came to our class and gave us a presentation of NEO Training Program and we had 2nd Life again!!!

I will talk about those in more details later~!