Next Generation
This cutting-edge technology combines the best of self-paced,
web-based instruction, live class room learning, and synchronous distance learning—all in a highly engaging
virtual world that users literally enter from their personal computers at home or in the field.
   
Informa is a Virtual Learning Center (VLC) development partner of protonMEDIA, whose VLC technology combines synchronous and asynchronous 3-D simulations into a truly blended, web-based learning experience. This exciting, next-generation eLearning solution employs internet technology to provide live or synchronous training from an instructor to a group. This blended strategy utilizes the web to deliver instructional concepts and immerses the learner in rich instructional content delivered in an engaging, virtual world in which they are able to learn, move, speak, listen, engage, and interact. The media allows learners to ask questions and work in groups or individually as it integrates the collaborations and experience of a live environment with the content immersion of a web-based program. VLC is tuned to today’s technology of voice over IP (VoIP) and bandwidth that can support the use of a 3-D environment that combines text, 2-D illustrations, audio, streaming video, animations, application sharing, polling, role plays in a simulated environment, course content, and gaming activities. This dynamic tool advances the state of learning while offering significant benefits in terms of training ROI, as it reduces travel time and costs and decreases time out of the field. New technological advances have made this next generation of eLearning an affordable option that can be developed with custom content in a relatively short time.
VLC Combines the best of self-pased, web-based instruction, classroom instruction, and synchronous distance learning to allow users to experience:
• the feel of a live classroom or simulated environment, such as a doctor’s office
• convenience of completing training at home or in the field
• ability to interact with content, peers, and an instructor
• full content immersion |
