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Technology and Corporate Training: Webinars, Video Conferencing and Podcasts
To meet the evolving demands of a global marketplace, businesses are searching to find inexpensive and alternative solutions to keep their employees knowledgeable and prepared for the varying consumer trends. As a result, it has become necessary for many businesses to replace critical components of their traditional training models with cost effective solutions. For many companies, that solution has come in the way of webinars, video conferencing, and podcasts.
Webinars, video conferencing, and podcasts serve as an interactive, affordable alternative that covers global borders, budget constraints, and uses the latest technology to further company’s training and development initiative.
1) it shows digital convergence by crossing global boundaries
2) Questions can be typed in the screen; red, yellow and blue boxes; interactive table digiselves that can be manipulated to facilitate the training.
3) Affordable alternative in the economic crunch, no hotel fees, air travel or ect.
4) Combines video, audio, and text
5) Podcasts can be chronicled and categorized to provide access to training anytime
6) Facilitator can be located in one geographic location and the trainees in other geographic locations.
7) Can be translated into any language
8) Streaming links and RSS feeds
9) WWW
10) Different industries that are on the cutting edge-pharmacy, corporate, real estate, retail, schools.
11) The LMS system for target
*What am I trying to prove?
1) Is this new way of training effective in all areas: cost, knowledge,easy?
2) How does this affect employees perception of company training? How do they feel about it?
3) how does this exemplify digital convergence.