E-Learning
Groopex Integrated Conferencing provides Moodle WebEx integration and Moodle Live Meeting integration, allowing hosting of actual classes directly from an LMS, bypassing the need for a physical environment for your establishment. Web conferencing programs such as WebEx Meeting Center, WebEx Training Center, and WebEx Event Center fills the needs of the common classroom, such as:
- Whiteboard
- Handouts (document sharing)
- Face to face discussions (Webcams and VoIP)
- Viewing presentations
- Raising hand
- Taking notes
- Polling
Further, web conferencing exceeds the abilities of the typical classroom by additionally providing the following:
- Real time pointing, so students can see where a teacher is reading from, or a teacher can see what a student is referring to when asking a question
- Annotation, underlining or highlighting anything needing emphasis, or drawing a diagram on a document
- Application sharing, allowing specialized applications for a particular topic to be viewed by all, and even worked on together
- Full recordings
Groopex provides a complete E-Learning solution, combining learning management systems (LMS) with fully integrated web conferencing. Our unparalleled comprehensive offerings enable your establishment to run and manage a worldwide online school or provide corporate training to multiple offsite facilities with ease.
An LMS, such as Moodle, allows your faculty to create a school online without needing a physical headquarters. It covers the management of all the needs of a typical office staff, such as:
- Semesters, courses, teachers, and students
- Enrollment, including tuition management, and online payment
- Calendar for each course, or the school year, integrated with popular calendar software
- Distribution of course material, such as slides, documents, and homework
- Homework grading, and online tests
- Transcripts and report generation
- Bulletin boards for news and school announcements
- Leaving messages for staff, students, coworkers, and classmates
- Chat rooms
- Much much more
Because of these capabilities, many schools and universities use an LMS as their infrastructure for managing education. For the classes themselves, teachers and students have to come to school and show up to their classes. This provides a burden on the school, and on the students. Schools need to have a physical location, with enough room for the amount of classes they are offering, and limit themselves to teachers and students who are geographically able to attend.
In the classical school setting, the disadvantages are numerous:
- Expensive real estate costs and upkeep
- Selection of teachers is limited to those who live nearby or willing to move
- Bad weather is able to prevent classes from occurring
- Delays due to traffic
- Minor ailments preventing teachers or students from showing up
- Special needs students requiring separate education in order not to disrupt mainstream learning
- Students geographically disadvantaged receive a poor education, or none at all
Groopex has enabled education opportunities which heretofore were impossible. Thanks to Groopex, teachers living in their own country have been able to teach language to foreign students elsewhere, as well as start up an online school in 2007, which so far has reached over 9000 students in over 120 different cities worldwide. With Groopex, many unheard of teaching conditions are now possible, including:
- Allow leading experts to lecture courses worldwide from the comfort of their own home, no longer limiting your teaching staff to the mediocre selection nearby
- Provide courses around the clock to those who can only learn at strange hours, thanks to teachers being in multiple time zones
- Allow those on isolated farms, military bases, or other rural areas to receive a first class education
- Teachers traveling to another continent for a family event, or even business or pleasure, can still teach their classes right on time
- Families moving far away no longer disrupt their children's education
- Minor ailments such as a bad cold do not prevent attendance, nor is there worry about classmates getting sick too
- Zero transportation costs for staff or students
- No time wasted getting to and from school
- Those who need a review, or missed a class, can see exactly what they missed or need to review thanks to full recordings of every class
- No need for a physical location
- Never needing to worry about other students bringing firearms or drugs to school
- Attending classes during a blizzard
- Attending a class from work during a lunch break
The above list at first glance might seem like a fantasy, but is a reality when using Groopex Integrated Conferencing for E-Learning. Our clients have already done everything mentioned here, and so can you.
We at Groopex use our own products in-house for corporate training and staff meetings, so we understand your needs and our products very well.