{"id":6263,"date":"2010-06-16T19:52:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T23:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=6263"},"modified":"2010-06-16T19:52:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T23:52:58","slug":"wimba-solutions-improve-academic-and-administrative-help-and-support-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/06\/16\/wimba-solutions-improve-academic-and-administrative-help-and-support-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimba solutions improve academic and administrative help and support services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimba.com\/company\/newsroom\/archive\/wimba_solutions_improve_academic_and_administrative_help_and_support_servic\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wimba solutions improve academic and administrative help  and support services<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wimba<em><br \/>\nSchools rely on Wimba to  provide flexible, cost-effective expansion of virtual support and  service offerings, enabling increased accessibility and continued  collaboration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">New York, NY (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/\">PRWEB<\/a>) June 15, 2010 &#8212;  Wimba\u00ae Inc., a leading provider of collaborative solutions for educators  around the world, announced today that colleges and universities are  increasingly turning to the capabilities of the Wimba Collaboration  Suite\u2122 to meet growing demands for enhanced help and support services.  By providing collaborative solutions that support a 24\/7 online  environment, Wimba makes it possible for schools to deliver academic and  administrative help &#8211; whether through the expansion of help desk  support, online tutoring, informal instruction opportunities or other  campus services &#8211; to students, faculty and staff whenever and wherever  it is needed most.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Taking the Help Desk to the Students<\/strong><br \/>\nThe help desk, a mainstay of the collegiate experience for decades, is  facing a crisis of convenience. According to a 2008 Community College  Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE), while students attribute  relatively high importance to academic advising and career counseling,  35% to 51% of students rarely (or never) take advantage of those  services. Inconvenient hours and even performance anxiety can keep  students from seeking one-on-one support.  Forward-thinking institutions  that realize students greatly benefit from academic advising\/planning,  academic skill development and other services that may affect learning  and retention are taking the help desk to their students using Wimba.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Making Academic Support Easily Accessible<\/strong><br \/>\nBeing available at the exact moment a student is facing an academic  challenge greatly increases academic success.  Wimba Pronto\u2122, an instant  collaboration system designed to promote learning through informal  instruction and meetings, encourages students and faculty to interact  frequently as individuals or in small groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimba solutions improve academic and administrative help and support services &#8212; from wimba Schools rely on Wimba to provide flexible, cost-effective expansion of virtual support and service offerings, enabling increased accessibility and continued collaboration. New York, NY (PRWEB) June 15, 2010 &#8212; Wimba\u00ae Inc., a leading provider of collaborative solutions for educators around the world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,49],"tags":[47,593,683],"class_list":["post-6263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-in-he","category-web-based-collaboration","tag-it","tag-web-based-collaboration","tag-wimba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6264,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263\/revisions\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}