Alicia Swaggerty let me know about this webinar last week and I captured the event and posted it in YouTube. It’s an hour long, so I’ll share my take-aways:
- VenueGen is going after the corporate market
- IE’s are more engaging than ELive or Connect Pro webinars
- this particular engine allows for avatar customization to more closely represent your real-world self because they value that over fantasy projections
- this interface makes affective interaction easier than Second Life, though there are specific skills and competencies that moderators and students alike would need to master
- the cost structure is most likely significant based on the tone of the presenters
- I would be interested in doing research based on using this tool as a replacement for live events that have a far reaching impact (for example, non-credit professional development events for PA educators)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNBHDLBpl04?rel=0&w=480&h=390]