One possible solution is to rethink your process for creating and deliverying virtual training. What virtual trainers need is access to a solution that enables and amplifies the power of brilliant instructional design - not chokes and limits it. Little better than 'death by PowerPoint'. The end result is often virtual training which is little more than static presentation slides with a voice over from the facilitator with the occassional 'interactive' dicussion with participants via audio or text chat. In short many of the features that virtual trainers require (or would like) just aren't possible within a 'typical' virtual meeting product. Ultimately virtual training is constrained by the limitiations of the virtual meeting products being used - creating a bottleneck that constrains instructional design to such an extent that the final product is too often drab, static and unengaging for learners. Virtual training is very different to virtual meetings - too often I have seen sub-par virtual training being caused by the instructional design compromises that the virtual meeting software has imposed.

The main challenge is that practically all of these applications were either designed specifcally for virtual meetings or have evolved from a product feature set that was based on virtual meetings.

For an organisation or individual looking for a software solution to deliver virtual training comparing the benefits, costs and features of each package can lead to a never-ending story and ultimately fustration that the final product chosen (or more likely mandated) doesn't deliver the tools required to enable engaging and effective virtual training. The list of web-conference applications seems almost endless.

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