1. Enabling 21st Century Teaching and Learning
Wimba’s product vision
Steve Kann
SVP Engineering

2. The following is intended to outline our general product direction
The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Wimba’s products remains at the sole discretion of Wimba. 2

3. 21st Century Teaching and Learning Is changing the basic education model
Better Results
Political
Economic
Teacher Proficiency
Education Model
Student
Expectations
The demand of the global knowledge economy are changing the basic education model. Consequently, political, economic, social, and especially technology are driving an increasingly challenging and competitive environment. Today:
90% of fastest growing jobs require a college degree.
96% say doing well in school is important to future success.
The student body is the largest and most diverse in history. For example, in the U.S., over 30% are minorities in K-12. In higher education over one-third are non-traditional (23 years and older) students, most of whom are working; 4 in 10 attend community colleges.
80% of all parents believe that the Internet helps teenagers to do better in school.
In the U.S., 38 states have established e-learning initiatives. Michigan last year became the first state to mandate by law one elearning class to graduate high school.
Student (and in the case of K-12, parents) are given more choices and expecting more in educational offerings to help them succeed. Students, for example, can attend classes from the safety and supervision of their own home.
Demands are intensifying for education quality, accountability, and progress. In addition, expectations are mounting to provide equal access to education to underrepresented groups such as low income, minorities, and/or disabled students.
Increasing teacher proficiency expectations: Credentialed teaching staff and No Child Left Behind requirements.
Creating more choices, approaches and access for student learning: online learning growing over 25%/year, outcomes, technology seen as great equalizer in terms of access.
Sources: U.S. Department of Education; National Education Technology Plan; Pew Research; EDUCAUSE; Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning 2006; The Bologna Declaration; Wimba analysis.
Social
More Choices
Technology 3 3

4. Effective Teaching and Learning Begins with effective content
Effective content is a requirement of teaching and learning
Effective content can be in digital or traditional formats
Effective content can come from traditional sources, or directly from educators and students
Teaching and learning is much more than simply distributing content 4 4

5. Effective Teaching and Learning Collaboration is the engine
The most profound experiences students take away from school don’t come from books.
Effective educators instill in students a passion for learning, and provide the tools to learn how to learn.
Collaboration, and learning happens both inside and outside of the classroom
Educators
And Students 5 5

6. Effective Teaching and Learning Assessment and Analytics
If you can’t measure something, you can’t improve it.
The movement for accountability in education is growing in importance
Assessment
Standardized assessment, adaptive assessment, and self-guided assessments
Analytics (aka Usage Insight)
Determine the effectiveness of tools, methodologies, staff and content.
Can be used for immediate remediation (intervention), or for fine-tuning processes. 6 6

7. Web 2.0 an evolution of the web focused on rapid development and connecting people together.
Sharing content
Bring people together in social networks
User-generated content
Rich Content
Technological standards and APIs create climate for innovation
Image © Luca Cremonini, Markus Angermeier, redistributed under terms of Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License 7 7

8. Wimba’s Mandate Effectively harness technology to enhance 21st century teaching and learning
Teacher Proficiency
Education Model
Student
Expectations
Better Results
More Choices
Political
Economic
Social
Technology
In sum, our passion and focus is to help people teach people. We specialize in providing collaborative learning solutions to more that 1,000 higher education and K12 customers in over 17 countries around the world.
We believe the demands of the global knowledge economy are changing the basic education model, making it and increasingly challenging and competitive environment in terms of student engagement, retention, and outcomes.
We also believe that people teach and learning differently and one size does not fit all. We see not one, but many elements working together to bring great teaching and learning to life. That’s why Wimba is much more that “web conferencing” or a “virtual classroom.” Wimba brings the most comprehensive suite of collaboration products created exclusively for educational purposes.
Wimba brings all the elements of collaboration together including Voice, Presence (the ability to see who is online and if they are available to collaboration), Chat, Share (sharing applications with students and peers), Video, and of course Content. Our solutions, Wimba Classroom, Wimba Voice, Wimba Pronto and Wimba Create use these elements to allow people to teach people.
Wimba bring all of these element together in a leading architectural vision that provides educator’s with unlimited flexibility to deliver a unique collaborative approach that helps enhance learning, improve outcomes, and increase student retention. 8 8

9. Wimba Product Vision is your product vision
We’re learning every day
Our product managers
Our advisory board
Feedback:
In sum, our passion and focus is to help people teach people. We specialize in providing collaborative learning solutions to more that 1,000 higher education and K12 customers in over 17 countries around the world.
We believe the demands of the global knowledge economy are changing the basic education model, making it and increasingly challenging and competitive environment in terms of student engagement, retention, and outcomes.
We also believe that people teach and learning differently and one size does not fit all. We see not one, but many elements working together to bring great teaching and learning to life. That’s why Wimba is much more that “web conferencing” or a “virtual classroom.” Wimba brings the most comprehensive suite of collaboration products created exclusively for educational purposes.
Wimba brings all the elements of collaboration together including Voice, Presence (the ability to see who is online and if they are available to collaboration), Chat, Share (sharing applications with students and peers), Video, and of course Content. Our solutions, Wimba Classroom, Wimba Voice, Wimba Pronto and Wimba Create use these elements to allow people to teach people.
Wimba bring all of these element together in a leading architectural vision that provides educator’s with unlimited flexibility to deliver a unique collaborative approach that helps enhance learning, improve outcomes, and increase student retention. 9 9

10. What’s a Kiwi? Our Next Generation Platform
Built from the ground up for education, and only for education
Designed from the ground up to be:
Integrated
Scalable
Modular
The platform behind Pronto

11. What about our existing platforms?
Core technologies are shared between current and next-get products:
Media: Audio, Video
Application sharing
Tunneling
Others
We’ll continue to innovate on our current platforms!

12. Architecture Modularity
Core technologies individually support teaching and learning
Smart application designs combine technologies to support diverse learning opportunities
Opportunistic enhancements and workflows support key non- instructional activities
Integrated solutions work together to reinforce the lifecycle of content
Create
Collaborate
Assess 12 12

13. Architecture Scalability & Integration
Scalability to meet growing needs of larger institutions, consortia, and centralized ASP deployment:
Enterprise-class reliability
Layered architecture with multiple servers possible per layer
Scales from 1 server to 1 rack.
Single point of administration
Single, coherent database for tracking activity and usage
Integrated platform for sharing content, and collaborating across applications.
Pronto/Kiwi Architecture, v1.5 13 13

14. Architecture Standards and APIs
IMS Standards
QTI: Question and Test Interoperability
LTI: Learning Tools Interoperability
We lead this working group
IA: Information Analytics
Emerging group studying interoperable exchange of analytical information
Open APIs
Published APIs for our applications
Consumer, as well as Producer APIs
Industry Standards
XMPP messaging
Asterisk/IAX/SIP media
Xiph Speex, Theora codecs
MP3 audio for Voice, Classroom
MP4 video

15. Capture
Functionally Powerfully simple applications for 21st Century Teaching and Learning
Assess
Report
Student,
Course ,
Activity
Create
Assist
Capture
Provide universal access and ease of use
Drive “active engagement” any time, place, mode
Bring the spark of learning outside of traditional environments.
Respect teaching and learning workflow
Integrate applications to create 1+1=3
Enhance
Prepare
Deliver
Create
Collaborate
Refine
Assess
Share
Report 15 15

16. Functionally WimbaPRONTO WimbaCREATE WimbaCLASSROOM WimbaASSESS
Integrated platform can enable richer collaboration than isolated products
Integrated presence
Content Mobility
Rich learning objects
Rich interactions in traditionally text-based applications
WimbaPRONTO
WimbaCREATE
WimbaCLASSROOM
WimbaASSESS
WimbaVOICE

17. Who is doing well, who is falling behind?
Analytics
Who is doing well, who is falling behind?
Dashboard
Users
Rich usage insight
Real-time information access and reporting
Role based usage
Starts with rich APIs
System Users Admin Users Faculty Users
Needs
System
Management
Engagement
Trends
Early
Warning
Unified Data
Users Courses Activity Analytics 17 17

18. Product Roadmap Increased integration between applications
First use of Kiwi technology
(Pronto)
Introduction of Multi-way video
(Classroom)
Increased sophistication
of core technologies
More applications
Built on kiwi
“Tutor” 1.0
Pronto 2.x
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010 18 18

19. 2008 Release Plan Q1 08 Q2 08 Q3 08 Q4 08 Pronto 2.0 Pronto 2.1
Video
Appshare
Chat Queue
Helpdesk
Institutional Notifications
Pronto 2.1
Internationalization
Scalability
ASP administration
Pronto 2.2
File sharing
TBA (privacy)
“Tutor” 1.0
remediation and self-assessment
Q1 08
Q2 08
Q3 08
Q4 08
Classroom 5.2
Analytics API
Presenter on the fly
Resizable Chat
MP3 archives
Classroom 5.1
External Video
Echo Cancellation
eBoard improvements
Door chime
Admin usability
TBA
Moodle 3.2
Voice Authoring
Workflow enhancements 19 19

20. Summary
Next generation products supporting the best features, flows and usability traits of all products
Focus on the three pillars of learning, with collaboration as key
Incorporate vision of our landscape
Provide capabilities to measure results 20 20

21. Questions?