Hypergrid Business: Arizona school goes virtual with VenueGen
Posted: February 11th, 2011 | Author: Kate Hendrick | Filed under: In The News, Virtual Instructor-Led Training | Tags: 3D, avatar, Ease of Use, eLearning, engagement, Non-Profits, venuegen, Virtual Learning, virtual world, Web conference, Web Conferencing Services | 4 Comments »
By Maria Korolov
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EXCERPT: Chris Lineberry is the principal of the Florence Virtual Academy in Florence, Arizona.
Chris Lineberry
“One of the problems with online schooling is building a sense of community,” he said. So the school decided to use the VenueGen Web-based meeting platform because it offered the ease of use and security his school needed at an affordable price. “This gives us a real ability to reach students,” he said.
Immersion.VenueGen users get a sense of immersion – of “actually being there” – when they attend virtual events on the platform. As a result, it helps bring students together who are located around the school district, or, in fact, anywhere in the state. The school also holds all its staff meetings in VenueGen, as well as meetings between teachers and students.
Staff meeting in VenueGen. (Image courtesy Chris Lineberry.)
“What I really like about it is the sense of immersion that the kids and the staff are able to get from it,” he said. The schools serves a wide variety of students…But they know the value of a high school diploma and a quality education,” he said.
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Awesome article by Maria Korolov. Of all the use cases for VenueGen, this one is closest to my heart. Congratulations and thanks to Chris Lineberry for all his hard work in virtual education. It’s so rewarding to see validation for what we set out to do in the first place: provide an easy-to-use, secure, cost-effective virtual platform that enables truly engaging e-learning and meeting experiences. Thanks!
But an increasing number of colleges and universities are.embracing it as a tool to reach students raised on computers and video.games. Students dont necessarily sign up for a course in Second Life but their professors may incorporate Second Life as an added dimension to the learning environment.
Thanks – where is article source?
Article source is HyperGrid Business, Feb 9 2011. Here’s the URL: http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/02/arizona-school-goes-virtual-with-venuegen/