Sultan Qaboos University

College of Education
Instructional and Learning Technologies Department

Elluminate Live! In
Distance Education
Web Conferencing Software

12/17/2008
Distance Education
Khadeeja Al-Shidhani 61344 Suhair Al-Kindi
What is Elluminate Live?

Elluminate live is a web conferencing software that is used widely in different sectors,
such as higher education, K-12 education, training programs,

Elluminate live provide audio-video communication through internet with no need for
desktop software except java plug in. it is more like virtual classroom where different
tools are provided for student-student and student-teacher interaction.

Elluminate Live! is built specifically for live, multi-media, many-to many collaboration.
Whether you have two students—or two hundred—Elluminate Live! enables world-
class communication, collaboration, and education that transforms teaching and
learning

Objectives of using Elluminate live in DE

Elluminate live is used widely in distance education because it:

• Engages more people in more ways

• Offers rapid return on the technology investment

• Expands the boundaries of the traditional classroom

• Adds live interaction to asynchronous distance learning

• Promotes active learning and improves student performance

• Fosters social networking and the creation of online communities

• Ensures a superior user experience, regardless of connection speed

The Participant Interface in Elluminate live:

The participant interface includes many facilities:

Whiteboard which include many tools that enables the teacher to explain the lesson as
well as helping students to interact with the content same as they are in the real
classroom.

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 Participants Window:

This window shows the names of everyone who is in the

session. The word moderator appears next to the
failitator name.

• Raise/Lower Hand: the participant use this icon to

get indicate that he want to ask question or say
something during the session. when he press this icon ,hand symbol appears beside
his name in the participant window so the instructor or the facilitator will now that he
need something.

• Emoticons: the participants use these icons to indicate his impression about certain
topic or point, it replace the facial expressions in the real classroom.

• Step Away: this icon is used to indicate that the person is leaving the session

Chat Window:

Through the chat window the participants can send private or

public text messages after having permission from the
facilitator

Polling

Another feature that is provided by Elluminate live is polling

where the participant can response to the facilitator through
different polling types which are:

• Yes/No

• Multiple Choice

• Slowdown/Speedup Class Pace

Participants' responses will appear in the Participants window if the moderator has selected to
show them

Content Development:

Elluminate live provide many tools for content development and delivery in distance education
courses such as:

• PowerPoint import feature

• Private and backup slides
• Dynamic content creation and editing tools
• AppSnap™ copy and paste from desktop
• File Transfer, even during recorded sessions
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• Indexed recording and playback of the sessions

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 • Graphing Calculator
• Math Symbol Library

Management and Usability

• In-session invitations
• Advanced, yet easy-to-use, moderator tools
• Individual bandwidth management
• Native look and feel for PC and Mac users
• User profile for each attendee
• Automatic participant sort
• Activity timer
• Announcements
• Participant status indicators
• Clickable URLs in chat, whiteboard
• Centralized user preferences
• Instant polling
• Emotion and activity indicators
• Accelerator keys for easy navigation without a mouse
• Multiple language translations
• Single-click session access
• Easy session creation with email invitations

Successful Elluminate story:

(Universidad de Valencia Selects Elluminate Live!® for Online Tutorials, Blended

Classes):

• "The teachers were very satisfied with Elluminate, and the students were
delighted," said Maria Dolores Sancerni. It's a good pedagogical tool that's easy to
access, use, and support. Elluminate Live! also improved communication between
teachers and students." In fact, Maria Dolores and Paz conducted a survey, asking
teachers and students who participated in the pilot project to rate Elluminate Live!
based on usability, technical aspects, pedagogical needs, and compatibility.

• Teacher Survey Results

Category Strongly Agree/Agree

– Easy to access 100%

– Satisfactory problem resolution 100%

– Sufficient support provided 100%

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 – Easy to use, not much experience needed 92%

– Good pedagogical functionality 81%

– Complementary to lecture class 100%

– Increased communication with students 88%

– Increased collaboration with students 67%

• Student Survey Results

Category Strongly Agree/Agree

– Accessible when needed 100%

– Easy to use 100%

– Don’t need much experience to use 100%

– Complementary to lecture class 100%

– Recommend to friends 100%

– Would consider course using Elluminate Live! exclusively 80%

– Communication with teacher better than lecture class 70%

In addition, both teachers and students rated the level of utility of a variety of
Elluminate Live! features. Note that teachers felt hand raising, application sharing, and
file transfer were the most useful features, while students ranked chat, recording, and
file transfer as the most useful.

Top Ten Benefits of Using Elluminate Live!® real-time eLearning and web
collaboration?

1. Increase Completion Rates and Retention:

Research in distance learning indicates that student/teacher and student/student

interaction greatly enhances student outcomes by improving attitude and motivation
and building a sense of community. The result: increased coursework completion rates,
higher test scores, and improved retention

2. Eliminate Geographical Barriers:

With live eLearning and web collaboration technology, academic institutions can extend
the boundaries of the physical classroom, leveraging limited teaching resources,
providing guest lecturers and remote experts, expanding geographical reach to
increase enrollment, and providing access for all, regardless of location.

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3. Build Online Communities:

Today’s students can use synchronous technology collaborate without limits—across

campus, throughout a nation, or across the globe—and build vibrant learning
communities that encourage participation and stimulate innovation. With Elluminate
Live! Institutions/instructors can even set up virtual student rooms for scheduled
meetings or ad hoc collaboration, with or without a teacher present.

4. Save Travel Costs:

Synchronous online learning is a cost-effective solution that provides universal access

with lower total cost of ownership and strong Reverse On Investment.

5. Increase Staff Productivity:

Elluminate Live! provides an enhanced meeting environment with voice over the
Internet that eliminates travel time and lost hours at the office

6. Accommodate Multiple Learning Styles:

The Elluminate Live! virtual classroom provides two-way voice over the Internet,
instant messaging, and a shared, interactive whiteboard to display educational
content. All of these features create a rich and engaging learning environment that
allows users to benefit fully from sessions regardless of their preferred learning
styles.

7. Incorporate Technology in the Classroom:

today’s students have grown up in a digital world and demand that schools keep in step
with their learning styles. At the same time, educators have realized that their teaching
styles must change to keep students engaged and actively learning.
Using Elluminate vRoom (virtual room) with application sharing and chat, the strategist
is now able to successfully share notes with the student from anywhere in the
classroom via their respective laptops.

8. Scale Information and Knowledge:

Key functionality in any virtual classroom should include the ability to record and
playback sessions, creating reusable learning objects to maximize access and
leverage resources. Recorded classes can be used for exam review, and
information sessions can be pre-recorded to provide before a course begins. In
addition, pre-recorded training for faculty, students, and staff on topics like
commonly used applications or online library resources can be developed. Creating
an easily accessible knowledge base of interactive, indexed recordings is easy with
Elluminate Live!

9. Leverage Limited Teaching Resources:

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 Live eLearning and web collaboration technology mirrors the interaction of the
traditional classroom session or face-to-face meeting, while eliminating the need for
expensive teleconferencing and travel. A single teacher can be leveraged to reduce
the need for additional hiring, a regularly scheduled faculty meeting can be replaced
with an Internet-based session, students from multiple campuses can be combined
to fill an online class, and a remote subject matter expert can address a class in real
time from across the globe without traveling a mile.

11. Provide Professional Development:

Not just for the academic environment, Elluminate Live! also enables corporations
to facilitate training and development.

References:

• http://elluminate.com/

• http://www.elluminate.com/whitepapers/ten_benefits_of_using_elluminate.pdf

• http://faculty.tui.edu/it/manuals/elluminate/Elluminate_Basics.pdf