eTeaching Broadcasts Are Revolutionizing eLearning

Virtual schools are popping up everywhere these days, along with hybrid eClassrooms, eTeaching, and eLearning offered by traditional universities, high schools, and both enterprises and non-profit organizations throughout the world.

In fact, even as far back as in 2015, more than 62 percent of all universities were already offering fully online programs.

But with the competition for eLearners so fierce these days, it’s important for schools to be able to distinguish themselves with superior eLearning offerings.

How eTeaching Works

eLearning courses are typically offered via a number of ways, including:

  • Downloadable reading materials and presentations
  • Prerecorded and downloadable video
  • Forums, textbook reading assignments, and email correspondence
  • Live broadcasting / Live streaming

It’s the last option, live broadcasting / live streaming, which has the most potential for differentiation…

Live Streaming

With live streamed eTeaching, groups of students or participants can view course material in real time. First of all, they get the benefit of learning from a live instructor. And more importantly, they get this without ever having to leave the comfort of their own homes no matter where in the world they are.

youtube live streaming

There are plenty of services that offer live streaming these days, including YouTube Live Streaming.

Combining Live Streaming with Live Chat

In order to take most advantage of what live streaming eTeaching has to offer, combine your live broadcasts with an embedded group chat.

It’s so easy to set up that you can achieve it in just two steps. Simply:

  1. Embed YouTube live streaming on a page on your website
  2. Embed a RumbleTalk chat room on the same page right beneath it.

By doing this, you can enhance the student learning experience tenfold. Students and participants can view your lecture and you can choose when (or when not) to take their questions in real-time in the chat below.

live streaming chat room

You can also enable open discussion if you wish, so participants can discuss the presentation amongst themselves while the broadcast takes place. Or, they could continue chatting afterwards.

All-in-all, by combining live streaming with an embedded group chat, you can make your eClassroom stand out from the competition—and watch the signups increase as a result!

To find out more and get started today, visit https://www.rumbletalk.com/features/.

Veeam Case Study: Live Event with 4500 chatters in one Chat Room

RumbleTalk is proud to have been a part of a great live event hosted by Veeam®. Veeam embedded RumbleTalk’s group chat room alongside a live broadcast to engage 4,500 unique, concurrent viewers in real time as they launched a new product.

RumbleTalk chat platform withstood the workload because of a server dedicated to the virtual event. Veeam also acknowledged that RumbleTalk provided great post-event service when various statistics on viewers/chatters were requested.

live event group chat

More About Veeam Live Event

Veeam recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Enterprise™ a business that must operate 24.7.365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of < 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged data and complete visibility.

Veeam’s global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world. To learn more click here.

Fun fact: The name “Veeam” comes from the phonetic pronunciation of the letters of the acronym for virtual machine, “VM.”

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How to Improve Online Radio Stations

For better or worse, I have no need to own a radio. Between my smartphone, laptop and desktop I have no reason to spend my precious money on a device with such little versatility as a radio. If I want to listen to radio, I pull it up on one of my sophisticated electronic devices by visiting the station’s website.

Actually for the better. The Internet makes radio much more competitive and for this reason, better. Listeners are no longer limited to the radio waves in their area, and radio stations can potentially reach listeners around the world. Having more options has brought deserved capitalistic success to stations that create great radio, and forced those who are mediocre to up their game.

And in addition to the market advantages, having radio online gives DJ’s and hosts more opportunities and tools to engage with their listeners. When a listener opens a radio station’s website, they can browse the static information that is relevant to them, such as the schedule or host profile, at a time when they are ready to see it or can participate in live interactions with the show.

RumbleTalk has seen its radio clients benefit from the live interaction that occurs with group chat. Including a live group chat allows listeners and hosts to engage with each other in a public and immersive way. Read on to find out how live group chat improves online radio stations.

Turning Passive Listeners into Active Listeners

It is common to use radio as background noise; but just because a listener tuned into your station with that intent doesn’t mean you can’t convert them into an active user. Knowing and increasing how many listeners are actually active can increase the value of your advertising space whether that is in the form of an audio commercial or display ad. Even generally, it’s better for your station to be heard than to fall on deaf ears.

By including a live group chat in your website, your hosts will have many angles to direct users to your website. This pulls them from distractions like Facebook to your content and increases the value of your “digital real estate”.

For example, the host can upload and embed a video, audio, or video in the live group chat for listeners to comment on, or encourage listeners to send their questions, comments or song requests for live responses. If your station hosts a talk show, the live group chat is a great way to have listeners share their opinions on controversial issues. Stations can also use the live group chat to play trivia or other games.

Watching the Spectacle of Live Radio

There will be typically be people who just want to view the live discussion without participating. Forum style interactions give the sense that the user can return to it any time, but live group chat discussions create a sense of urgency to keep users engaged.

radio station live chat

The content of your live group chat from those who do actively participate in the discussion provides a value-add to the station as a whole. Those who are participating in the chat are generating free content for your other listeners to consume. And expert, interesting, or simply vocal users of the chat can be a driving force for returning listeners who are fascinated with watching the spectacle of a raw discussion.

Some producers will fear the potential for controversy, but controversy should not be overtly avoided. Controversy is a common factor in viral content and viral content is good for business.

However, most radio stations want to have the option to use effective moderation tools. Moderating with RumbleTalk is easy and can be done in steps. You can appoint as many moderators as you would like, create a list of words to be automatically filtered, view the IP addresses of chatters, kick out a chatter, and permanently ban a chatter.

High ROI

Live group chat is an investment with a high return. The reason for this is that listeners who feel emotionally connected to a station return and an emotional connection can easily be made from a human-to-human interaction.

The feeling of sitting in the room with their favorite radio host can be imitated when both the host and the listener are present in the same live group chat room. Alternatives to live group chat lack this human feeling of instantaneous interactions.

In addition to the host-listener relationship, listener-listener relationships are also created. This builds a community of people who feel connected to one another for their mutual interest in the station. That community bond is another driver for returning listeners.

Live group chat increases returning listeners and keep listeners glued to the station website for longer amounts of time. As discussed earlier this makes the value of your digital real estate increase, but what does it cost in the first place?

For a top-of-the-line professional live group chat room, stations can pay as little as $14 per month. This includes the ability to export chat transcripts and monitor how many listeners are logged into your chat. These can be used as resources to prove the extent of your station’s active users.

Choosing a Group Chat for Your Radio Station

While there are many live group chat options available, you’ll want to make sure you are choosing one that has is able to perform at a minimum the following functions:

The last point on that list is crucial to the professional appearance of your station. You don’t want to have to send your customers to a third party site or app in order to get them to participate. Think of it as having your listeners call your station rather than an outside call center. It makes a difference.

And since you will be including this chat on your website, you’ll also want it to be customized to aesthetically fit your website. Using RumbleTalk’s live group chat room has options for those that are novice web designers as well as CSS experts.

Of course, we’re biased because our team works endlessly to make sure that our group chat rooms have all the necessary tools and options to deserve a place in the twenty-first century.

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