Date: January 26, 2010
Interactive technologies take learning out of the ‘Digital Dark Age’
At this year’s Learning Technologies exhibition, held at Olympia, London on 27th- 28th January, SMART Technologies will demonstrate how collaborative technologies can take training out of the ‘Digital Dark Age’.
Technology innovations are driving a shift towards a more learner-centric, interactive style of training. Visitors to stand 14 will be shown how SMART’s solutions - such as the SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard – provide trainers with the ability to deliver motivational training regardless of geographical location. SMART’s training solutions are designed to accommodate all three learning styles - visual, audio and kinaesthetic – making training more personalised and improving the learning that takes place. Interactive whiteboards combine the simplicity of a whiteboard with the power of a computer. Users can write over slides in digital ink, save their notes, access any website or multimedia file and project their work onto a large screen to give learners a truly interactive experience.
Companies with disparate locations often face barriers to effective training mainly through ensuring consistency and quality of training and the costs associated with distance learning. Using the SMART Hub SE with any SMART Board interactive whiteboard or display, trainers can collaborate around the world with training participants. The SMART Hub SE is a stand alone appliance that enables trainers to create, share, and distribute digital notes, and set-up data conferencing without a computer. During training sessions, trainers can share their desktop remotely ensuring the same quality, efficiency and consistency of training, whether all the participants are in the same room or different locations.
Malcolm Stewart, Business Development Manager from SMART Technologies, comments “With the continued pressure on budgets and increased competition to attract delegates to attend training courses, organisations need technology that can provide them with a return on their investment within months not years. During my seminar on “The digital dark age vs. the interactive edge” on Thursday 28th January in Theatre 4, I will detail how interactive technologies provide a clear return on learning investment and can give your organisation the “Interactive Edge” when students / or trainees select their learning environments.”
Visitors to the stand will be able to enter a competition to win the latest SMART Podium™ interactive pen display – a wide screen interactive pen display that brings presentations to life. SMART’s widescreen 22” display is ideal for manipulating highly detailed material and for presentations that include wide-format content such as video, HDTV and high-resolution images. As with SMART Board interactive whiteboards, users can write over slides in digital ink, save their notes, access any website or multimedia file and project their work onto a large screen. It connects to any computer and projector by DVI, HDMI or VGA, making it compatible with existing technology and future technology investments.
To find out more about how SMART is reshaping learning in training rooms around the world, please visit stand 14 at Learning Technologies or call 08450 724800.
