Discussion Forums for Small Business, Corporate and Educational Institutes

	IBO (International Baccalaureate Organization) IBO was also faced with the challenge of finding a new virtual environment that would facilitate knowledge sharing and information exchange between teachers globally, and also help to establish professional learning communities online. At the heart of these professional learning communities are mechanisms that support and encourage teachers in their own learning and the sharing of good practice. Researching software and environments to do this proved to be a daunting task for the staff working in the OCC department. Read the full story.
	eConcordia eConcordia places much emphasis on on-line communication and user-friendly software. Staff members grew tired of difficult programs that required a great deal of maintenance and tended to be inconsistent in all the same ways. Past discussion boards required users to log in twice-once to log in to the eConcordia portal, and then again to gain access to the actual discussion board. Read the full story.
	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Distance Education Division was up to the challenge of making online learning as effective as possible. Two related challenges became apparent immediately: how to create a sense of community among online students and how to relieve professors from the burden of exploding email in-boxes. Read the full story.