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Teleplace Customers Stanford University, VetAdvisor, U.S. Air Force, Win Awards for Innovative Collaboration Technologies
U.S. Distance Learning Association, Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge, Air Force Education and Training Recognize Teleplace Virtual Workspaces
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – May 11, 2010 – Teleplace™ Inc., a leading provider of trusted collaboration solutions, today announced that three of its customers have recently received awards for their innovative use of the company's virtual workspaces for distance learning, virtual care coaching and online training programs.
- The U.S. Distance Learning Association announced last week that the Project Based Learning (PBL) Lab at Stanford University won a 21st Century Award for Best Practices in Distance Learning Distinction. The award recognized its Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) Global Teamwork course, which uses Teleplace to enable global, cross-university teams to collaborate virtually.
- This March, the U.S. Army Simulation & Training Technology Center named VetAdvisor® Virtual Room, from Teleplace customer Three Wire Systems, a winner of its Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge for best collaboration in a virtual world by a government contractor.
- In January, the U.S. Air Force presented the 2009 Learning Innovation Award in Training to the 81st Training Wing, Keesler Air Force Base, for a 3D immersive environment built using Teleplace.
“We congratulate our customers on winning these three prestigious awards for the innovative virtual workspaces they've created with Teleplace,” said Greg Nuyens, CEO of Teleplace. “The use of Teleplace for online learning and training, remote collaboration and distributed project management has accelerated dramatically, and organizations are demonstrating huge mission effectiveness and productivity benefits from their deployments.”
Enhancing Learning for Global Teams
The AEC Global Teamwork course at Stanford University includes architecture, engineering and construction students from many U.S. and international universities who work together on teams to design new buildings. With the help of online collaboration technologies from Teleplace, students are improving the performance of their cross-university and cross-disciplinary teams.
- Teams experiment with how virtual environments can be leveraged to make advances not possible in physical or traditional digital worlds.
- Students meet as avatars for unscheduled activities that combine work, play and other interactions to strengthen team relationships and improve trust.
- Teams conduct 3D virtual walkthroughs and debugging of building designs.
“With Teleplace, AEC Global Teamwork students can engage in rich multimedia and multimodal interactions that enable them to produce higher quality, environmentally sustainable products faster and more economically.” said Dr. Renate Fruchter, founding director of the PBL Lab, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. “The collaboration, thus far, demonstrates how much more efficiently, effectively and seamlessly global teams can work together by leveraging secure virtual workspaces from Teleplace.”
Improving Quality of Care for Veterans
The VetAdvisor program is an outreach service, sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs, that is designed to support Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans as they reintegrate into civilian life. Teleplace provides the technology platform for Three Wire Systems' VetAdvisor Virtual Room offering. VetAdvisor Virtual Room is an online 3D workspace that provides a secure meeting place for real-time interactions between veterans and Care Coaches (licensed behavioral health professionals).
- Veterans have an alternative treatment venue to more traditional face-to-face and telephonic behavioral healthcare options.
- More veterans have access to care - even those who do not live near a VA facility or are too busy to come in for treatment.
- Veterans can personalize their own rooms with hobbies and interests, and interact with Care Coaches as avatars or via webcam.
- Care Coaches and veterans can use interactive tools and resources to explore ideas, resolve issues, track progress, and assist with achieving goals.
“With Teleplace we were able to easily deploy the virtual meeting place and other advanced collaboration technologies necessary to meet the needs of the VetAdvisor Virtual Room program,” said Dan Frank, managing partner of Three Wire Systems. “Teleplace enables veterans and Care Coaches to interact in a richer and more personalized way than they can with a phone call, which helps improve the overall quality of behavioral health care for veterans, especially those in remote locations.”
Innovative Approaches to Training
In 2009, the Air Force conducted its first virtual instructor-lead training. The training was held in Teleplace secure workspaces by the 81st Training Wing as part of its work with the Air Force Education Training and Command (AETC) MyBase program.
- Initial technical training sessions focused on taking existing classroom courses and converting them into their virtual equivalents.
- Students located at multiple locations around the country communicated and participated in the sessions remotely, including from off-base locations.
The 2009 Learning Innovation Awards were presented in January to “AETC teams who developed new initiatives and successes for both education and training,” including the 81st Training Wing. Branch Chief of AETC Plans and Requirements Training Technology Requirements, Travis Osborne, said the overall winners of the 2009 awards “were the ones who came up with the best innovation or practice that furthered students' learning.”
For more information on Teleplace secure virtual workspaces, visit www.teleplace.com.
About Teleplace
Teleplace, Inc. creates trusted collaboration solutions to help enterprises manage data-intensive projects and operations across multiple locations. Teleplace is a secure virtual workspace that combines voice, video and chat communications with multi-application and document sharing, enabling more efficient workflows among distributed teams, suppliers, and customers. Teleplace provides application collaboration solutions to more than 100 Global 500 and mid-size customers, including leading firms in the energy, semiconductor, education, manufacturing, financial, healthcare, and government sectors.
For more information, please contact:
Susan Spencer
Spencer Communications
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