E-Learning Meeting Solutions
Teach and train more people, more often for less online with MCI Conferencing e-learning solutions and watch how quickly your company can gain the competitive advantage. These days, corporations around the world are challenged to increase productivity, sell smarter, ensure customer satisfaction, and reduce costs. That's why more organizations than ever are turning to MCI Conferencing for e-learning and Web collaboration solutions. We can be your complete corporate e-learning solution because Net Conferencing makes online training and distance learning easy for everyone in your organization. With a virtual classroom, you can bring together groups of people to interact and learn while dramatically reducing travel, facilities, and telecommunications costs. 1
Offering Two Virtual Environments Net Conferencing from MCI Conferencing offers your company the choice of two virtual classroom environments large auditoriums that support up to a thousand live connections, as well as highly interactive, online classrooms for smaller groups. All you need is a phone, Internet connection and a Web browser for an instant online learning environment there is no new hardware to deploy making the upfront investment minimal. 1. Reserved Net Conference Make teaching and training more effective with Reserved Net Conference. Using Reserved Net Conference is easy. It requires absolutely no learner plug-ins. This dramatically increases the overall ease of use for learners, while enabling you to focus your resources on the training delivery, not the technology. Multiple Presenter Environment. Multiple instructors can present during a session. Any instructor can instantly contribute or become the active instructor without having to pass the baton back and forth saving time and making instruction even easier. Net Q&A. Any instructor or content expert can answer textual questions during the presentation to help learners get the information they need quickly and conveniently. Learners can get private replies (keeping other learners focused) or you can use Post to All to display all questions and answers. Instructors can also save the questions and answers for later discussion. Virtual Stage Presenter Presenter Presenter Participant Seats With Reserved Net Conference, you can connect up to 1,000 participants and include multiple presenters. Virtual Auditorium. Seating chart and feedback indicators give instant feedback to you to help pace the session or to highlight individual needs. Net Replay. You can record every aspect of the training delivery. Net Replay is a tool that records training sessions to be replayed on demand. In addition, Net Replay technology allows viewers the flexibility to skip from slide to slide in a manner similar to viewing a DVD. Once published, powerful MCI streaming servers provide instant access to your recording via a URL link. It s easy to create, publish and make your course content available to learners. Easy Participant Access. Train thousands of students at once. Connect up to 1,000 live groups, sessions or independent learners simultaneously in a single session. Secure Meeting Environment. Reserved Net Conference s architecture and login capabilities provide a secure applicationsharing environment with three access controls to meetings, encryption of content and added security with seven layers of defense. 2
2. Instant Net Conference Instant Net Conference is an effective classroom solution available for small group training, collaboration, and coaching. Working Sessions. Instant Net Conference is ideal for small, task-oriented working sessions where learners can be given access to share applications, in a highly interactive environment. You are in control at all times, and can give or take back learner controls and access at any time. Collaboration. Instant Net Conference is ideal for smaller training sessions to give learners the ability to collaborate online and in teams. Presenter Instant Net Conference offers an ideal venue for small collaborative meetings. Seat Seat Seat 3
Benefits of Using MCI Conferencing for Instructors You always retain control, and can display or remove the following features from a learner's view at any time: Chat capability Slide review Seating chart and mood indicators Annotation tools You can use multiple slide types including: PowerPoint slides Live demonstration of any application (such as Excel, Word, databases, etc.) Desktop application sharing Live Web slides and Web tours Whiteboards Text slides A robust set of annotation tools to increase the interactivity of training sessions Any graphic, photo, illustration or document Snapshot capabilities* You can conduct training sessions with ease and are able to: Use polling and polling reports to measure understanding Use participant lists for records of all students that attended the training sessions.* Save results as documents that instructors can provide as handouts or printed copies of the active presentation Printing capabilities may be enabled or disabled at any time * Only applies to Reserved Net Conference 4
Benefits of Using MCI Conferencing for Learners Learners in Instant and Reserved Net Conference classroom environments can: See live demonstrations of products and receive software training Get hands-on/minds-on learning through application sharing and remote control Participate easily as no plug-ins are required* Print or download handouts or complete notes View archived sessions to increase understanding of important points* Interact and participate with chat, questions, and answers Share their opinion and give feedback Facilitate on-demand learning with Net Replay an exact copy of a session with all materials including audio* Review any portion of a recorded session skip forward, backward or replay sections* Enjoy fast access to sessions no learner plug ins* See live Web tours and Web site walk-throughs Use live links to Web sites for research and information * Only applies to Reserved Net Conference Learners can get hands-on/minds-on learning through application sharing and remote control. 5
The MCI Benefit MCI is the world s largest provider of conferencing services. As a global leader, we can support all of your conferencing needs from small meetings to large, high-profile events. With MCI s global network, dedicated meeting managers, and vast experience, we are your single source for conferencing. Net Conferencing from MCI also offers you a choice of: Service level (Instant or Reserved) Pricing (Per Minute or Seat-based) You can be assured that our expertise including management and testing of vendor platforms, a single point of contact for sales support, and technical assistance is woven into every choice you make. Attend a Free Demo Today With Net Conferencing from MCI, you can create a rich and engaging online experience to vastly improve the effectiveness of your meetings. Train remote employees, launch new products to customers, conduct online seminars, demonstrate software, tour Web sites, manage cross-functional projects it s no wonder that Web conferencing use is dramatically on the rise. To learn more, visit http://mci.com/conferencing, where where you can register for a free demonstration or training session, sign up for services, and much more. One-Stop Shop for Choice of Service Type MCI Net Conferencing Choice of Pricing Model Sales Support Global Reach 6 CN7989 11/03