-- Arizona State University
-- Arkansas Virtual High School
-- Trinity College
-- University of Illinois, Chicago
-- Virginia Community College System
-- University of Sheffield
-- University of Waterloo
-- University of Western Ontario and Schulich School of Medicine and
Dentistry
-- Western State College
"We've been using Wimba Voice for a number of years in the School of
International Letters & Cultures to add audio support to our hybrid
language courses," said Peter Lafford, Director of the SILC Language
Computing Laboratory for Arizona State University. "We were so pleased
with the results that we encouraged the University Technology Office to
license it and make it available to the rest of the university."
Wimba Voice increases personal interaction in any online learning
environment -- whether supporting traditional, distance or blended courses
and classes -- by giving instructors and students the ability to easily
exchange ideas and information with their own voices, no matter where they
are. Wimba Voice supports subjects that are virtually impossible to teach
effectively online without use of the spoken word, such as foreign
languages and speech. Wimba Voice also enhances these and any other
classes by integrating personality and connectivity.
"We deliver solutions that allow rich interaction between instructors and
students as well as among students," said Wimba Chief Executive Officer
Tommaso Trionfi. "Rich interaction means rich learning, something we strive
to inject wherever Wimba solutions are used."
Wimba Voice supports an array of verbal exercises in any subject and
supports vocal collaboration, coaching, and assessment. Using Wimba Voice,
students and faculty can embed voice messages into course pages online,
they can maintain threaded voice discussion boards and they can coordinate
and participate in live group discussion and debates. Wimba Voice also
enables students and instructors to easily produce and access class
material as podcasts.
Wimba Voice continues to set the bar for vocal communication in online
programs. Its array of features -- from voice discussion boards to
podcasting -- offers the most flexibility for facilitating online vocal
instruction. In fact, Wimba Voice is such a good fit for language
instruction, that several schools eliminated their language labs and now
only use Wimba Voice.
About Wimba
Wimba is a company focused solely on education and dedicated to the
principle that people learn more when they are drawn closer together. Our
collaborative software applications for the online education market enable
institutions to bridge technology and pedagogy by supplementing course
management systems with many of the proven disciplines of in-person
learning environments. Wimba's intuitive solutions enable educators and
students to quickly and easily teach and learn live online, engage in live
chat and instant message exchanges, benefit from oral content being added
to text-based course content, and more. Instructors can also use Wimba
solutions to convert Microsoft Word documents into accessible course
content and to create and administer tests, quizzes, and exams. Our focus
on education and collaboration with educators fuels our product
development.
Wimba. People Teach People. www.wimba.com
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