Verizon-owned video conferencing platform BlueJeans has announced the launch of a dedicated corporate learning and training environment, which aims to facilitate corporate learning by bringing together instructors, participants and any and all learning tools needed in one place. dedicated virtual environment.
Features include a dashboard built to provide a snapshot of the training session and quick access to classroom management tools; a "Collab Board" for cooperation with up to twenty-five users; and a Weather Person mode, which lets the communicator overlay shared content throughout the meeting.
The platform will also offer simultaneous language interpretation options for attendees in up to 5 simultaneous channels, automated subtitles in 5 languages and the sessions will have capacity for up to a thousand attendees.
Instructors will also have access to a “hard mute” feature, where they can mute the microphone or video feed for all participants and prevent participants from unmuting.
Business training is big business
According to a XNUMX industry report from the Training Gazette, convened by BlueJeans, spending on training grew nearly twelve percent between XNUMX and XNUMX in the US, with organizations spending roughly XNUMX three hundred million US dollars in business training. The study also found that virtual classrooms and webcasting accounted for XNUMX% of total training hours, up from XNUMX% in XNUMX.
Krish Ramakrishnan, chief product and innovation officer at BlueJeans, said corporate learning environments should train instructors, without the overhead associated with facilitating virtual or hybrid training.
"Working with Verizon's global corporate training specialists, we've been able to focus on what matters most to corporate trainers and anchor learning, collaboration and training in one location to sustain employee engagement throughout the their learning and development journey," he said.
BlueJeans isn't the first video conferencing platform to pivot to the virtual learning space in the wake of the pandemic, though most currently free platforms currently target academic learning rather than training. in the company.
Last year, Microsoft began offering Microsoft Teams for Education, providing a virtual room environment for teachers and students. Elsewhere, Zoom also offers a Zoom for Education plan, which supports distance and hybrid learning environments for elementary schools, high schools, and higher education institutions.
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