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Web Conferencing

Web conferencing really makes life easier. We use it everyday to hold meetings with far-flung colleagues, work together on the same document whether or not we're in the same room, look over the shoulders of the faculty and students we coach in the use of technology for teaching and learning, and, of course, when we give our own webinars and product demos.

Technically speaking, web conferencing is the real-time delivery of content using the Internet. Many of the products in this category can easily be integrated with just about any kind of delivery system you can imagine, from course management software like Blackboard or WebCT, to learning management systems like Click2Learn or E-College.



Elluminate Live! 

Elluminate LogoElluminate Live! is a real-time content delivery tool. With Horizon Wimba as its only close competitor, it easily bests ASAP, Breeze, Centra, GoToMeeting, ILinc, and LiveMeeting on both features and ease of use. We are constantly evaluating products in this category and, as yet, have not found one better.

Elluminate Live! is, in our opinion, perhaps the best of the best when it comes to connecting in real time over the Internet and utilizing web conferencing features such as participant and moderator tools, chat, whiteboard, application sharing, break-out rooms, and so forth. This product holds such high esteem in our eyes because of its robust scalability (you can meet with 1, 10 or 1,000 participants and the experience is pretty much the same), bandwidth management (it doesn't matter what the participant's connection speeds might be, no data is lost, no screens freezing, no cacophonic audio), audio cacheing (not a word, not a syllable is lost, no matter how much the Internet bottlenecks), and true cross-platform compatibility (got a Mac, Linux, or Solaris machine? You can still participate! It's not just a Windows platform).

More about Elluminate Live!


Wave3 Session IP 

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Wave3 Session Collaborate 

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Comotiv 

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GoToMeeting 

Key-Featured,
Windows Only
Web Conferencing


All You Can Meet

GoToMeeting is an easy-to-use and cost-effective way to organize and attend secure online meetings. You can host meetings on-the-fly, give live presentations in real-time to far-flung students or colleagues, supplement your blended or online course with real-time discussions, or hold office hours or advising sessions from home. You can host unlimited online meetings - with up to 10 attendees per meeting! If everybody you work with uses the Windows operating system, GoToMeeting is a great entry-level web conferencing product.

More about GoToMeeting

Course Management Services

Check out the course management services below, that we offer for Blackboard, Moodle, and WebCT, the most frequently used software platforms. We also work with almost any other platform, such as Angel, E-College, Etudes, FirstClass, Intralearn, NiceNet, VirtualU (you get the idea). Let us know what your challenges are and we'll do our best aid in their solution.

Want to know more about FutureU's approach to course management services? Go here.



Moodle Services 

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including web hosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 40,000-student University.

In the near future, we will be sharing the business case for Moodle in which we show how it has become a strong representative success story for the viability of open source software as a replacement for expensive proprietary software licenses.

Check back here or send us an email to be put on the waiting list.


FutureU's Blackboard Services 

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FutureU's WebCT Services 

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Other Services 

Please visit the "academic" part of our web site for more information on the services we offer to individuals and institutions of learning.

DISCLAIMER  The opinions expressed here are entirely those of the authors. Others knowledgeable in the fields of virtual communications and technology-enriched learning may have opinions of their own that differ from ours. The software packages being evaluated tend to rapidly evolve over time, sometimes getting better and sometimes getting worse, but in either case, the features and capabilities we discuss on this page can become rapidly out of date. Please contact us for our most current thoughts.


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