Posts Tagged ‘elearning’
AlterEgos The Ideal Computer Based Training Aide.
September 19, 2010
The Center of the study of Language and Information from Sanford University compiled a research paper entitled “The Benefits of Interactive Online Characters”, even though they centered on “online” the content of the research aptly shows that introducing Virtual Representatives or Animated Avatars into visual media has a definitive positive effect.
I quote: Automated characters take advantage of social responses that are natural reactions to interactive media. They can be perceived as realistic and well- liked social partners in conversations that simulate real-world interactions. Characters can express social roles, emotions, and organized personalities that match learning goals, company brands, and transaction needs. Characters can increase the trust that users place in online experiences, in part because they make online experiences easier.
It’s no accident that many e-learning providers incorporate visual stimulation, why? “because it works”! The media platform is of little consequence as long as the content is accessible and many software solutions exist to make the production of compelling tutorials and e-learning solutions a simple task, including: PowerPoint, Camtasia Studio, Articulate, Keynote, Lectora, Adobe Captivate, iSprint Presenter, OpenOffice Impress and Dryfork to name but a few. Virtual Tutors or Avatars software solutions that are compatible with these products on the other hand are harder to find.
AlterEgos is an Avatar solution specifically designed for the e-learning . AlterEgos was developed with e-learning and virtual education in mind, allowing educational content creators to be creative without getting bogged down by technology. AlterEgos comes ready with 53 female and male characters that automatically lip-sync and maintain convincing ambient and natural animations, all the creator has to do is provide a narration audio file or indeed use the in-built Text to speech and you are all but done.
AlterEgos offers a number of easily imported video formats including Flash FLV, Flash SWF and dear old AVI.
Costs of all Avatar or Virtual Representatives vary dramatically, beware however of Pay-For-View type models, not only can they work out expensive if your site is popular, but many lack the ability to embed the Avatar media directly within your presentation, tutorial or e-learning course, which is a major problem if you host within a school or distribute via CD/DVD.
Irrespective of whether you are a Commercial or education sector e-learning solution provider, effective content delivery in these cases is paramount, together with flexibility, cost and quality. Not only does AlterEgos give you a perfect partner, but now you have the benefit of Stanford Universities findings.
Why not embrace the facts and consider what a virtual teaching avatar could do for your e-learning content.
A complete copy of the Stanford University research article by Byron Reeves, ” The Benefits of Interactive Online Characters”, is available by visiting www.alteregos.com
Don’t just buy the first Virtual Character solution to work with your e-learning project that you come across, check out the competition. Here is an example of AlterEgos latest. AlterEgos Free to trial .
AlterEgos Sets A New Standard! Integrating With ISpring Presenter.
September 18, 2010
Having a virtual animated avatar or virtual tutor within your CBT, training or presentation media is a well proven means of dramatically increasing information retention, effectiveness and impact. However being comfortable incorporating our own likeness is something we normally steer away from. There is a great product partnership however that makes this process accessible, simple and highly compelling; ISpring Presenter and AlterEgos a revolutionary desktop avatar production system from AlteEgos.com.
ISpring Presenter offers an effective import feature to enable you to integrate external video compositions, but how many people are comfortable integrating their own image? AlterEgos.com may have the answer in a simple to use concise desktop package.
AlterEgos takes virtual tutors to a new level and compliments ISpring Presenter perfectly. With simplicity you get effective impact that will allow your productions to stand out.
AlterEgos allows you to use either your own or an imported voice for the narration, it even has a Text to speech interface to make life even easier. With 53 virtual characters available directly in the software and hundreds of tailoring items including backgrounds and clothing, it’s a simple process to create a highly compelling automated lip-syncing animated character. AlterEgos also supports various composition outputs including Flash and AVI so integration is a snip!
In five minutes using the wizard driven interface your AlterEgos virtual teacher is sitting on your desk ready to import directly into ISpring Presenter, a simple and effective workflow.
ISpring Presenter makes it a few clicks process using their effective media import process. All you have to do is; Generate your AlterEgos composition and import, it couldn’t be simpler or more effective.
The end result is a compelling web or CD ready tutorial, presentation or training module with a fully embedded virtual trainer.
Professional quality presentation and Computer Based Training production now has a perfect partnership with AlterEgos and ISpring Presenter.
For the ultimate in customisation AlterEgos.com will even create you your very own AlterEgos for a small fee. If could even be a virtual “you”, full circle, it’s a funny old world.
Get your own copy of AlterEgos for free at AlterEgos.com and give your ISpring Presenter presentations and CBT a new face!
AlterEgos And ProForm ELearning Studio The Ideal Computer Based Training.
September 18, 2010
Improving the impact of presentations and CBT projects by including a virtual representative or virtual teachers is a well known method of improving memorability, impact and retention of information, consequently improving dramatically the effectiveness of training media, there has always been a drawback however, “the need to create a personal video of a suitable representative”. The combination of ProForm ELearning Studio and the revolutionary AlterEgos.com approach promises and even better training and CBT solution, for just a few dollars.
Many products allow you to import industry standard media files and ProForm ELearning Studio excels in this area. AlterEgos offers many video outputs within their simple desktop solution offering an almost perfect partnership.
AlterEgos takes virtual tutors to a new level and compliments ProForm ELearning Studio perfectly. With simplicity you get effective impact that will allow your productions to stand out.
AlterEgos allows you to use either your own or an imported voice for the narration, it even has a Text to speech interface to make life even easier. With 53 virtual characters available directly in the software and hundreds of tailoring items including backgrounds and clothing, it’s a simple process to create a highly compelling automated lip-syncing animated character. AlterEgos also supports various composition outputs including Flash and AVI so integration is a snip!
In less than five minutes you can script, design, generate and integrate your own virtual representative or virtual tutor dramatically directly into ProForm ELearning Studio improving your productivity and streamlining your workflow.
ProForm ELearning Studio makes it a few clicks process using their effective media import process. All you have to do is; Generate your AlterEgos composition and import, it couldn’t be simpler or more effective.
The final productions for deployment on web or CD is compelling and effective with a fully integrated virtual, fully animated, talking teacher.
If you are serious about your Presentations, and Computer Based Training solutions, the combination of ProForm ELearning Studio and AlterEgos is a perfect solution.
For the ultimate in customisation AlterEgos.com will even create you your very own AlterEgos for a small fee. If could even be a virtual “you”, full circle, it’s a funny old world.
There are many shapes and sizes within the Virtual Character and Avatars market so check out all of the competition that work with ProForm ELearning Studio, their options and costs. You can download a free trial of AlterEgos here AlterEgos Free Edition
Better Training Results With AlterEgos And Keynote.
September 17, 2010
Improving the impact of presentations and CBT projects by including a virtual representative or virtual teachers is a well known method of improving memorability, impact and retention of information, consequently improving dramatically the effectiveness of training media, there has always been a drawback however, “the need to create a personal video of a suitable representative”. The combination of Keynote and the revolutionary AlterEgos.com approach promises and even better training and CBT solution, for just a few dollars.
Importing external media is common place in any media solutions and Keynote also offers a flexible approach to this function. AlterEgos provides the virtual representative in numerous video formats, a perfect synergy.
Fully animated talking Virtual representative, Avatars and Virtual tutor production is where AlterEgos stands heads above the competition. It’s simple, effective and adds the impact that features within Keynote compliments perfectly.
With fifty-three male and female virtual characters in the box, The ability to use the your own voice recordings or the integrated Text To Speech, hundreds of backgrounds and clothing items, AlterEgos gives masses of flexibility. AlterEgos produces industry standard media files including; Flash SWF, Flash FLV and AVI. Lip-syncing is fully automated and the whole production process takes just a few minutes.
In less than five minutes you can script, design, generate and integrate your own virtual representative or virtual tutor dramatically directly into Keynote improving your productivity and streamlining your workflow.
Importing into Keynote is done with just a few clicks. The process couldn’t be more simple.
The final productions for deployment on web or CD is compelling and effective with a fully integrated virtual, fully animated, talking teacher.
If you are serious about your Presentations, and Computer Based Training solutions, the combination of Keynote and AlterEgos is a perfect solution.
If you want the ultimate in “unique” AlterEgos will for a small fee create your own custom character. It’s never been easier to create effective, memorable content with ease and simplicity.
Test AlterEgos and Keynote for free from here with a trial copy. AlterEgos trial download
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AlterEgos Sets A New Standard! Integrating With Articulate.
September 17, 2010
Improving the impact of presentations and CBT projects by including a virtual representative or virtual teachers is a well known method of improving memorability, impact and retention of information, consequently improving dramatically the effectiveness of training media, there has always been a drawback however, “the need to create a personal video of a suitable representative”. The combination of Articulate and the revolutionary AlterEgos.com approach promises and even better training and CBT solution, for just a few dollars.
Articulate offers an effective import feature to enable you to integrate external video compositions, but how many people are comfortable integrating their own image? AlterEgos.com may have the answer in a simple to use concise desktop package.
AlterEgos was specifically designed to make the production and integration of Virtual representatives or Avatars into third part media solutions such as Articulate a simple and effective solution.
With fifty-three male and female virtual characters in the box, The ability to use the your own voice recordings or the integrated Text To Speech, hundreds of backgrounds and clothing items, AlterEgos gives masses of flexibility. AlterEgos produces industry standard media files including; Flash SWF, Flash FLV and AVI. Lip-syncing is fully automated and the whole production process takes just a few minutes.
In five minutes using the wizard driven interface your AlterEgos virtual teacher is sitting on your desk ready to import directly into Articulate, a simple and effective workflow.
With just a few clicks your AlterEgos fully animated composition can be imported into Articulate, no special techniques or conversions are necessary. Simplicity itself
Your final composition has the ultimate in flexibility, deploy directly to the web, CD, DVD or internal server based. Everything is industry standard formats from start to finish.
AlterEgos and Articulate offers you a perfect partnership. With ease of use, industry standard compliance and simple workflow, professional impact and effectiveness is available to all.
AlterEgos can even produce custom character to make your content even more unique. Compelling and memorable content has never been so simple to produce.
You can even get a free copy of AlterEgos to test the water before you commit. Click here for AlterEgos
AlterEgos And BB FlashBack.
September 17, 2010
Having a virtual animated avatar or virtual tutor within your CBT, training or presentation media is a well proven means of dramatically increasing information retention, effectiveness and impact. However being comfortable incorporating our own likeness is something we normally steer away from. There is a great product partnership however that makes this process accessible, simple and highly compelling; BB FlashBack and AlterEgos a revolutionary desktop avatar production system from AlteEgos.com.
Importing external media is common place in any media solutions and BB FlashBack also offers a flexible approach to this function. AlterEgos provides the virtual representative in numerous video formats, a perfect synergy.
Fully animated talking Virtual representative, Avatars and Virtual tutor production is where AlterEgos stands heads above the competition. It’s simple, effective and adds the impact that features within BB FlashBack compliments perfectly.
With fifty-three male and female virtual characters in the box, The ability to use the your own voice recordings or the integrated Text To Speech, hundreds of backgrounds and clothing items, AlterEgos gives masses of flexibility. AlterEgos produces industry standard media files including; Flash SWF, Flash FLV and AVI. Lip-syncing is fully automated and the whole production process takes just a few minutes.
In five minutes using the wizard driven interface your AlterEgos virtual teacher is sitting on your desk ready to import directly into BB FlashBack, a simple and effective workflow.
BB FlashBack makes it a few clicks process using their effective media import process. All you have to do is; Generate your AlterEgos composition and import, it couldn’t be simpler or more effective.
The final productions for deployment on web or CD is compelling and effective with a fully integrated virtual, fully animated, talking teacher.
Professional quality presentation and Computer Based Training production now has a perfect partnership with AlterEgos and BB FlashBack.
If you want the ultimate in “unique” AlterEgos will for a small fee create your own custom character. It’s never been easier to create effective, memorable content with ease and simplicity.
Get your own copy of AlterEgos for free at AlterEgos.com and give your BB FlashBack presentations and CBT a new face!
Better Training Results With AlterEgos And Dryfork.
September 17, 2010
Having a virtual animated avatar or virtual tutor within your CBT, training or presentation media is a well proven means of dramatically increasing information retention, effectiveness and impact. However being comfortable incorporating our own likeness is something we normally steer away from. There is a great product partnership however that makes this process accessible, simple and highly compelling; Dryfork and AlterEgos a revolutionary desktop avatar production system from AlteEgos.com.
Dryfork offers an effective import feature to enable you to integrate external video compositions, but how many people are comfortable integrating their own image? AlterEgos.com may have the answer in a simple to use concise desktop package.
AlterEgos was specifically designed to make the production and integration of Virtual representatives or Avatars into third part media solutions such as Dryfork a simple and effective solution.
AlterEgos allows you to use either your own or an imported voice for the narration, it even has a Text to speech interface to make life even easier. With 53 virtual characters available directly in the software and hundreds of tailoring items including backgrounds and clothing, it’s a simple process to create a highly compelling automated lip-syncing animated character. AlterEgos also supports various composition outputs including Flash and AVI so integration is a snip!
In five minutes using the wizard driven interface your AlterEgos virtual teacher is sitting on your desk ready to import directly into Dryfork, a simple and effective workflow.
Dryfork makes it a few clicks process using their effective media import process. All you have to do is; Generate your AlterEgos composition and import, it couldn’t be simpler or more effective.
The final productions for deployment on web or CD is compelling and effective with a fully integrated virtual, fully animated, talking teacher.
AlterEgos and Dryfork offers you a perfect partnership. With ease of use, industry standard compliance and simple workflow, professional impact and effectiveness is available to all.
AlterEgos can even produce custom character to make your content even more unique. Compelling and memorable content has never been so simple to produce.
There are many shapes and sizes within the Virtual Character and Avatars market so check out all of the competition that work with Dryfork, their options and costs. You can download a free trial of AlterEgos here AlterEgos Free Edition
Lean Six Sigma Certification Video Training eLearning ONLINE
August 25, 2010
An introduction to Lean Six Sigma by 100% Effective Training. Six sigma courses, black belt, green belt, yellow belt, certification and coaching.
For more information on our courses, please visit:
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Duration : 0:6:42
Reinventing Online Training with Adaptive Path and Bolt | Peters
August 24, 2010
Putting User Experience and Simplicity first
Mindflash partnered with Adaptive Path and Bolt | Peters to research how to build a product that would solve the training problem that all organizations face: making sure employees have the knowledge and skills they need to succeed at their job and contribute to the company’s success.
Duration : 0:2:29
Elearning South Africa – Opportunities And Challenges
August 14, 2010
Elearning has developed beyond recognition from its early years when end users had to struggle with floppy disks and headache-inducing monitors. Today, it incorporates interactive graphics and animations and sophisticated learner management systems which have brought the learning process to life.
Providers of electronic learning in the recent past have vied with each other to create learner management systems which are increasingly sophisticated and interactive. Many providers diverted considerable development resources to building impressive learning platforms.
Yet all too often the standard of the underlying content does not match the improved mode of delivery and many providers have found to their cost that the most important ingredient in learning is good content.
So what constitutes good elearning content? The answer is that it must be relevant and current. The modern work environment is changing rapidly and what was relevant and current last year can quickly become outdated. New technology allows people to work more effectively and efficiently than ever before but the technology must still first be understood and mastered.
With the advent of the internet the best practices and resources for business, information technology and finance can be studied and applied all over the world. Companies have the responsibility to invest in their human capital and ensure that employees can keep learning the skills they need to do the best job that they can.
Electronic learning provides a host of solutions for formal and informal training with interactive courseware, simulations and access to online business, IT and desktop resources. New courses and software are added continuously especially in areas like project management and leadership training where new thoughts and challenges are always emerging.
In developing economies like South Africa, the provision of quality learning allows companies to have access to best practices in industry and to remain current and relevant. An effective corporate elearning strategy will ensure that high quality, on-demand learning is available to those who need it most.
Looking to find the best deal on corporate online training solutions, then visit www.learningsolutions4africa.com to find the best advice on elearning South Africa solutions for you.