Faronics Insight © http://www.faronics.com/html/Insight.asp is a networked computer software that can be used to train and monitor computer use across multiple workstations.
Face 1: Market Focus Insight targets the educational and business markets
Public school, higher ed and business training.
Face 2: Types of Offerings
Content and Infrastucture
Face 3: Who is the Buyer?
Bought regionally (provincial school boards, municipal libraries) or at a faculty level in universities and colleges. Large business may also be a buyer.
Face 4 – Global Markets
Wired Anglophone and European market with language skills
Face 5 – Development of the Market
Market Supports Import of Content and Infrastructure Category.
Face 6 – Learning Technology Works With a Well-Developed Learning System
Interestingly this program is a piece of tech that facilitates tech ed and is therefore a self fulfilling niche. It requires networked workstation and IT personnel to help set up and troubleshoot, but the software is quite user friendly.
The Insight software not only allows for live multi-workstation demos but students/learner peer present and can pose questions on the fly, in an anonymous fashion if so chosen. I see this as an extremely valuable tool for knowledge building communities.
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James,
I’m not familiar with insight but I do know that Faronics makes a great program called “Powersave” that helps businesses and homes save power consumption by monitoring their computer usage. I also believe that they are the company behind the program “Deep Freeze” which is used in many school computer labs.