A new automated staff information system was recently purchased by a major corporation and needs to be implemented in six regional offices. Unfortunately, the staff is located throughout all the different offices and cannot meet at the same time or in the same location. As an instructional designer for the corporation, you have been charged with implementing a training workshop for these offices. As part of the training, you were advised how imperative it is that the staff members share information, in the form of screen captures and documents, and participate in ongoing collaboration.

 Windows Live Meeting

 

       Often companies with multiple operations around the world would need to have up to date training with their employees at different sites.  Travel time for the trainers, renting conference rooms, loss of productivity, reproducing training manuals and other materials can be costly.  Using operating systems such as Windows Live Meeting and Knoodle, can cut down those costs while allowing each employee the exact training.  This will also allow the employee’s to share what works and doesn’t work with each branch of the company.

 Since many computers use the windows operating system Netmeeting from windows would have been a good choice.  However if the company upgraded to Windows 7, then it will not be a good fit.

     Windows 7 has what is called Live Meeting.  Office Live Meeting is a conferencing solution that you can use to engage audiences in online meetings, training, and events.   Live Meeting includes software that is installed on client PCs, and uses a central server for all clients to connect to.  The software is offered for free download from the Microsoft website. This software also operates on Mac computers. 

     The ID trainer can schedule, join, or present a Live Meeting by using newly available features that includes: audio, video conferencing, uploading handouts for distribution.

From this the trainer can import the content in the Live Meeting, managing attendee permissions

Recording a meeting

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/live-meeting-help/office-live-meeting-instructor-led-training-HA010242972.aspx?CTT=1

Knoodle

      "Knoodle provides a cloud-based social presentation, training, and learning management system in a single platform.  Deliver more effective and engaging online training and presentations to your target audience within minutes by using a combination of slides, video, audio, images, surveys, tests, multiple delivery options, and data analytics.  You can use Knoodle for sales pitches, product demos, sales or product training, video resumes, professional career and employee development, e-learning, and more." (Knoodle 2012)

Knoodle offers effective classroom experience for on demand learning.  Trainers can share their presentations and training tools by uploading them into media sites like YouTube and Facebook for future references. Trainers and the corporate offices can get feedback on how well your presentation or training was received by taking Knoodle's real-time analytics and data reporting dashboard.

http://www.knoodle.com

"Assessing available technologies often requires that the instructor determine the level of lowest common technologies (LCT)." Simonson, Smaldino, Albright, & Zvacek, S. (2012).   This can be done by the learner taking a survey on what technology is available to them.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/live-meeting-help/office-live-meeting-instructor-led-training-HA010242972.aspx?CTT=1  

 http://www.knoodle.com 

Simonson, M., Smaldino, S., Albright, M., & Zvacek, S. (2012). Teaching and Learning at a Distance (Fifth ed.). Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.