Upskilling and Reskilling your Workforce
Sep 14, 2021 /
The common definition of upskilling is when “Employers provide employees with more advanced skills through additional education and training with the goals of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization(Merriam-Webster).” Upskilling essentially allows an employer to take advantage of resources that already exist within their current workforce with minimal disruption across different departments or […]
Utilize Layouts for a Better Virtual Classroom Experience
Aug 12, 2021 /
A layout is a pre-configured arrangement of Pods. Each new meeting room contains three default layouts named: Sharing, Discussion, and Collaboration. Within each default layout, the Pods initially deployed are configured best to represent the intent of the default layout name. The Layouts panel is used to display the default, and host-added layouts. The panel […]
Adobe Connect 11.2 is at CoSo Cloud!
Jul 15, 2021 /
At CoSo Cloud, we’re happy to be upgrading our customers to version 11.2. Adobe Connect 11.2 is available in our Secure Private Cloud and we can start planning your Managed Service Customer upgrade whenever you are ready. Adobe Connect 11.3 and 11.5 are not far behind. Adobe Connect 11 moved users to a fully HTML5 […]
Creating Custom Adobe Connect Events Pages
Jun 17, 2021 /
The Events module of Connect allows you to create a micro-site that lets people self-register to gain access to any object in your Adobe Connect account. Events can point to live Meetings or Seminars, or on-demand recordings or documents. After registering for events users can receive email notifications of Registration Approval, Reminders of the event, […]
How Advanced Video-Based Learning Is Transforming Knowledge in the Enterprise
May 13, 2021 /
In case you haven’t noticed video-based learning is hot again. Was it ever not hot? True, the use of video in virtual classrooms and other corporate training and eLearning sessions never really went away. But there were plenty of reasons for training managers to avoid the medium. Video requires bandwidth and if that bandwidth is […]
How to Train your C-Suite
Apr 8, 2021 /
Virtual training in the enterprise comes with many challenges. Training managers struggle with engagement. They have the difficult task to demonstrate ROI. They’re tasked with confronting corrosive interpersonal issues in the workplace that society hasn’t been able to fix since civilization first reared its head. Suffice to say, running an effective virtual training program is […]
Virtual Reality in Virtual Training (Part 2)
Mar 23, 2021 /
Two weeks ago we posted the first part to Virtual Reality in Virtual Training. This week, we’re wrapping up with part two. The concept of practice through repetition is useful across many workplace tasks, says Derek Belch, Strivr’s CEO and founder, and a former student of Bailenson’s. “For sexual harassment training, for interviewer training, we’ve […]
Virtual Reality in Virtual Training (Part 1)
Mar 10, 2021 /
People have been talking about virtual reality coming to virtual training for years now. (We’ve even blogged about it) So where is it? Sure, we’ve all seen the compelling use cases in law enforcement and the military. But what about elsewhere? In 2019, NPR ran a story on how Walmart is currently using VR to […]
Teaching to the Google Generation
Feb 24, 2021 /
Marshall Shepherd thinks something may be missing when it comes to learning in today’s “Google It—What Does Wikipedia Say” era. His article in Forbes quotes another educator who believes memorizing facts should no longer be the emphasis in scientific learning since information can so easily be obtained with a quick search. She says students should […]
Best Practices for Securing Your Web Conference and eLearning Sessions
Feb 4, 2021 /
It actually happened. Hackers from the activist group Anonymous broke into a weekly conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard and then posted the entire call on the Internet. What was the call about? Hackers. Rarely when people talk about information security these days do they include conferencing. But think about it. Tremendous amounts […]
Goodbye 2020…Hello 2021!
Dec 31, 2020 /
And so, we are at the end of a year where so many things made life so difficult for so many people, and for 330,000 people and their families in the U.S., a whole lot worse. The hardest part of 2020 was the viscous grip of the global pandemic that in some way negatively impacted […]
