Learning Product Providers
Intrepid Learning Solutions (appear to be competition to Impetus)
http://www.intrepidls.com/services/consulting/impact/index.php
Proton Media independent Review:
http://www.simulationsintl.com/pdf/smartent.pdf
Training Objective: Experiencing a virtual world as an enterprise learning and knowledge management environment.
Description: While Second Life has helped popularize virtual worlds, Proton Media is quietly experimenting with more private
3D virtual worlds. Its ProtoSphere product is an avatar‐based platform that features an impressive array of technologies to
facilitate corporate training, including B2B applications, VoIP, text chat, polling, desktop application sharing, 3D simulations and social networking.
In ProtoSphere, professionally dressed avatars that correspond to the trainees (and users) hold meetings, attend live training classes and network with colleagues in a virtual corporate environment. In addition, the system uses blogs, wikis and discussionboards to integrate the processes of workgroup collaboration, informal learning and online training. Ron Burns, CEO of ProtonMedia, highlights the example of a corporate customer facilitating IT training and mentoring using ProtoSphere. Studentsassume an avatar in 3D, he explains, and each avatar has a user profile that acts as a relevance matching system. For example, a student could indicate an interest in standards. ProtoSphere then matches co‐workers by expertise levels to specific needs.
"When a match is found," Burns adds, "learning can serendipitously occur in private 3D spaces."
Many early adopters are multinational companies that have employees in multiple time zones collaborating around the clock.
"Aside from scheduled learning activities—meetings, classes, training sessions—users have a 24x7 opportunity for informallearning," Burns adds
BUT is Protosphere capable of Virtual Instructor Led Training
