{"id":200,"date":"2007-09-17T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T12:13:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-19T13:53:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T13:53:52","slug":"online_classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/2007\/09\/17\/online_classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Online classroom (LWW conference)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested to see Cath Hunt and Maggie Smart&#8217;s demonstration of their online classroom, using software callled Wimba (I think). They are using it to deliver online training sessions in database use to PhD students studying for a virtual doctorate at Salford University. All students need a PC, mike and headphones and the live sessions bring the benefits of immedicate feedback and a fun environment. The sessions can be archived, which is helpful for students who need to revisit any of the information. The class size did look quite small and I wondered how scalable an initiative like this would be.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1024\/1392099866_320da7d1bf_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cath and Maggie (still a beautiful view of the sea too!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested to see Cath Hunt and Maggie Smart&#8217;s demonstration of their online classroom, using software callled Wimba (I think). They are using it to deliver online training sessions in database use to PhD students studying for a virtual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/2007\/09\/17\/online_classroom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-and-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}