Elearning - June/July 2008 - (Page 15) ¿Habla Español? If you have a dispersed workforce, or would like to provide partners, suppliers or customers distributed around the world with access to your training content, you should consider a learning management system available in the appropriate languages. In preparing the current edition of Brandon Hall Research’s “LMS KnowledgeBase 2008,” it asked vendors to reveal the languages supported by their systems. The results indicate that many commercial learning management systems have translated their learner and administrative interfaces into multiple languages. Of the 76 systems covered in the research: 47 are available in Spanish, 45 in French, 40 in German, 31 in Italian, 28 in Japanese, 24 in three dialects of Chinese. Looking for something a bit more exotic? Three systems have been translated into Latvian. Three are available in Malay. One is available in Swahili. One is available in Hindi. By the way, a 2001 survey indicated that 41 percent of the population of India speaks Hindi. So one smart LMS vendor has a large potential market. To access a copy of the report, visit the Website http://www.brandon-hall.com/publications/lmskb/lmskb.shtml. Web Seminar Series Join us for these engaging on-demand and live learning sessions: Live Sessions: >> Beyond the Checked Box: Compliance Training in Banking >> Virtual Classroom 101 >> Collaboration Strategies >> E-learning 101 On-Demand: >> Engaging E-learning >> Improving Learner Performance >> Business Impact of E-learning >> Hot Learning Technologies >> Global Deployment of Learning Don’t miss another valuable learning experience. Hear professionals from Alcatel, CA, Scottrade, Caterpillar, Bersin & Associates and many others. Thoughts on ‘Second Life’ Brandon Hall Research has been investigating the usefulness of virtual words as platforms for learning. To this end, its team recently had a meeting in Second Life. Following the meeting, Tom Werner had these thoughts: >> It’s a novel environment and, thus, kind of energizing for the group, like any new setting can be. >> You can arrange pleasant meeting areas in Second Life, and that seems to have a positive effect (we met “outdoors” in Second Life, on a nice deck area). >> Once you get set up to show PowerPoint slides in Second Life, you can do it fairly well (although a Web-conferencing tool would be more practical if the object is to show PowerPoint slides). >> There’s some pleasant sense of experiencing fellow meeting participants as physical representations rather than simply as voices (although how pleasant this is may vary for each individual). >> There can be entertaining side-activities in Second Life. (Our avatars hopped into a nearby hot tub after the meeting.) But there are also drawbacks. >> The meeting is affected by each member’s ability to navigate (although that’s true with any technology). >> Practical meeting tools (like pointers) are better in Web-conferencing tools than in Second Life (although various tools are available in Second Life, and this is bound to continually improve). >> If the meeting is primarily information-sharing and discussion, a killer advantage of Second Life isn’t obvious (although you could conceivably argue the same thing about a conference call versus Web conferencing). >> It’s debatable how conducive Second Life is for meetings. It’s safe to say that even Second Life enthusiasts would say that a standard meeting doesn’t particularly take advantage of the unique aspects of Second Life (for example, 3-D). To find our more about membership in the Brandon Hall Research Library, visit the Website http://www.brandonhall.com/publications/library/library.shtml. Register Now! Sign up for the complimentary Elearning! Web Seminar Series at: http://www.elearning.b2bmediaco.com/ webseminars.php Sponsored by: Elearning! June/July 15 http://www.brandon-hall.com/publications/lmskb/lmskb.shtml http://www.brandon-hall.com/publications/lmskb/lmskb.shtml http://www.elearning.b2bmediaco.com/webseminars.php http://www.brandonhall.com/publications/library/library.shtml http://www.brandonhall.com/publications/library/library.shtml
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