Retrospective Analysis of a Virtual Worldwide Conference for eLearning (original) (raw)

The TCC Worldwide Online Conference was launched in 1996 as an alternative to a traditional face-to-face conference. Travel costs to and from Hawaii and travel time to the middle of the Pacific Ocean would prohibit many from attending a technology conference. As advances in ICT improved the quality of the virtual conference experience and as travel budgets continued to shrink, the number of participants attending TCC increased five-fold over 15 years. The concern by TCC was to maintain a high level of satisfaction with the ...