This very much extends the life and range of the meeting and can apply to nearly everyone sponsoring or managing meetings. In some cases, when the visuals are the emphasis, these products can be nearly as good as sitting in the back of the room watching the program in real time. These are prefect applications to distance learning methods. Like SeminarSource, they provides video, audio, slides on demand to the desktop but, additionally, they provide a searchable automatically scrolling full-text transcript of the delivery. One can attach documents, polls, URLs, and other communications content to existing streaming and rich media.
Learners can initiate and participate in threaded discussions.
Instead, the CDs provide audio, high resolution slides and searchable scrolling text of the presentation. Unlike audio recordings usually sold at the meetings, it takes some turnaround time to produce the text transcript for the CD version, but the final product is a much richer in visual and textual content - an makes a much better distance learning application. I taught an online college course in meetings management two years ago. They also incorporate live web conferencing tools. As technology enables these rich media interactive tools to be accessible to anyone with an Internet connect, we will see conferences and meetings increasingly as the content source for distance learning courses.