ArticuLearn Announces New Professional Development Series for Online Educators; Ongoing Effort Will Provide Instruction, Guidance in Developing E-learning Content.Business Editors & High Tech Writers Telecon West 2000 AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2000 ArticuLearn, Inc., an e-learning solutions provider and wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of VTEL VTEL Video Teleconferencing (R) Corporation (Nasdaq:VTEL), is rolling out an ongoing instructional program designed to give educators and corporate trainers A corporate trainer is a specialized skill development position in a corporation where the goal is to help improve the "soft skills" or "people skills" of the workers in the corporation. the information and tools they need to quickly develop effective, easy-to-use online course content. The ArticuLearn Professional Development Series will include workshops, seminars, publications, guides and handbooks, as well as online courses on e-learning course design. Dr. Jeanette Cates n. pl. 1. Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties. Cates for which Apicius could not pay. - Shurchill. Choicest cates and the fiagon's best spilth. - R. Browning. , director of professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. for ArticuLearn, will lead the series. Cates has more than 30 years of experience in teaching adults and has created numerous technology-based courses, both online and offline. "This is an opportunity for educators and trainers to learn the key components of an effective online course by working directly with ArticuLearn," Cates said. "We want to empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems participants by giving them the tools and knowledge they need to create engaging, effective e-learning courses. We'll be taking away the `mystery' of online course development by providing the information and support needed to jump into the e-learning environment." The Professional Development Series kicks off Dec. 6 at the TeleCon 2000 trade show in Anaheim, Calif. ArticuLearn is offering a free learning lab that will give participants hands-on experience in compiling com·pile tr.v. com·piled, com·pil·ing, com·piles 1. To gather into a single book. 2. To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources: existing resources into a fully enabled online course. Following TeleCon 2000, ArticuLearn will begin offering both online and traditional seminars and workshops around the country to provide guidance and support on a variety of subjects, including instructional design Instructional design is the practice of arranging media (communication technology) and content to help learners and teachers transfer knowledge most effectively. The process consists broadly of determining the current state of learner understanding, defining the end goal of , using multimedia, adding interactivity to course content, creating online communities and more. "Through the Professional Development Series, we will be showing educators and trainers just how easy it is to migrate their traditional classroom curriculum to an online environment," said William McCauslen, chief executive officer of ArticuLearn. "Everyone has been talking about how e-learning will transform and add to the learning experience, but now ArticuLearn is showing organizations exactly how to do it." Information on upcoming events in the Professional Development Series will be posted on the ArticuLearn website at www.articulearn.com. About ArticuLearn ArticuLearn, a wholly owned subsidiary of VTEL(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:VTEL), is an e-learning solutions provider dedicated to making education and training over the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the easy, affordable and effective for its clients. ArticuLearn creates custom e-learning portals for the commercial, education and healthcare markets that allow organizations to author, deliver and manage course content directly online. More information on ArticuLearn can be found at www.articulearn.com |
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