E-pSyLon: a synchronous e-learning platform for staff training in large corporations

Video-lectures: An effective complementary teaching method at business college

“…Video is a very effective tool to be used for e-learning. Most of the available video conferencing systems suffer a main drawback represented by the lack of eye contact, which means interaction, among participants (Halawani et al, 2011). However, it turns that the ways the video footage was shot are very important.…”

“…E-learning is becoming increasingly popular as a tool for developing human resource training plans in large corporations. An e-training platform has been designed and implemented to explore the possibilities of e-training in large corporations (Granda et al, 2013). E-learning is increasingly being adopted as an instructional media, and has moved from a niche solution launched in the defense and aerospace industries, to become adopted across the majority of industries and within education worldwide.…”

“…The combined learning and teaching methodology increases the motivation of business students (Halawani et al, 2011).…”

Resilient overlay network for real-time interactive multimedia sessions in corporate networks

“…A preliminary implementation of the RON has been successfully used to support real synchronous e-training sessions [16]. This implementation has also been used to analyze the performance of the overlay.…”

“…Companies can benefit from interactive teleconferencing, e-meetings, product demonstrations and distance training [16], while universities may use real-time communications for developing innovative synchronous e-learning activities. The networks of these organizations are usually organized into multicast islands, one for each organization site, connected through virtual private network channels over the Internet [28].…”