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Avacaster In The Virtual Classroom - Ken Gordon, techLearning

Once upon a time-say, a few years ago-a lot of people believed that Webcasting was the Next Big Thing. We were going to watch television-like, serial entertainment right on the Web. A lot of seasoned film and television people jumped their respective ships for start up companies that would provide original programming for the Web. Venture capital poured in. Those were the days. Though the venture capital dried up and most of those companies have gone out of business, Webcasting is still alive and well. Broadband connectivity is proliferating at a rapid clip, and multimedia-enabled computers are cheaper than ever. And although entertainment hasn't exactly become the raison d'etre of Webcasting, it's thriving in other markets. One of these markets is corporate teleconferencing. The other is distance learning.

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