Collaborative Training Environment

Scenario: A new automated staff information system was recently purchased by a major corporation and needs to be implemented in six regional offices. Unfortunately, the staff is located throughout all the different offices and cannot meet at the same time or in the same location. As an instructional designer for the corporation, you have been charged with implementing a training workshop for these offices. As part of the training, you were advised how imperative it is that the staff members share information, in the form of screen captures and documents, and participate in ongoing collaboration.

Since this is a major corporation and the chance for further instruction will be needed, I would advise them to set up a Course Management System (CMS). In particularly I would recommend Edu 2.0 business edition. The website is Edu 2.0 for business. This site is a paid site that will allow the development of any courses that this corporation may need. It also allows for synchronous and asynchronous learning and collaboration. In other word the people will be able to view the content at their leisure or structured time, chat, post to a forum, and even collaborate using a wiki page. A nice feature to this site is that it is easy to use and appears like a common social site most people are using, Facebook.

The corporation might say that Edu 2.0 for business is too expensive and we do not plan on need this in the future. Another recommendation would be to use Elluminate. This site will allow the users to support the process before, during and after a real-time session. This would be to post in a forum, respond to questions, collaborate on a topic and upload a screen cast. 

Both of these solutions can work for the scenario given above. Edu 2.0 is a course management system which will allow the users to have more than one course under their umbrella (company).

References: 

Glass, G. (n.d.). Edu 2.0 for business. Retrieved from http://www.edu20.com/ 

Samanani, N. (n.d.). Elluminate. Retrieved from http://www.elluminate.com/Products/Elluminate_Learning_Suite/?id=72