Meet Mugdha Amin, Senior Instruction Designer at HTS, a member of The Content Wrangler Community. Mugdha specializes in workplace learning and change readiness with “proven experience” defining and developing content for medium to large scale e-learning solutions.
Most of us are familiar with the fast-growing interest in and use of e-learning in organizations. But as popular as e-learning is becoming–an understandable trend, given the freedom e-learning provides from classroom settings and the restrictions it lifts on users’ time constraints—e-learning is still evolving. New approaches are stretching boundaries in exciting and game-changing ways. One of the newest ideas is work-embedded e-learning. Read Work Embedded E-Learning (Intercom, the magazine of the Society for Technical Communication).
Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that Adobe Captivate 3 was named the market leading rapid eLearning, courseware authoring and simulation tool by the eLearning Guild Research 360º Report on Authoring and Development Tools. The eLearning Guild surveyed more than 1,440 of its more than 27,000 members for insight into and direction for navigating the massive eLearning landscape. The survey entailed five parts, including rapid eLearning tools, courseware authoring tools, simulation tools, media tools, as well as the processes for combining and deploying authoring tools. “Our research highlighted the strides Adobe Read the full article…
Read our exclusive interviews with RJ Jacquez, product evangelist at Adobe Systems about the launch of their new Technical Communication Suite, an end-to-end solution for technical communicators and instructional designers. The solution includes an integrated suite of techcomm tools including FrameMaker 8, RoboHelp 7 (the new version), Captivate 3 and Acrobat 3D 8.
TCW: RJ, thanks for agreeing to speak with us today. For our readers who don’t know who you are, please tell us a little about yourself and what you do at Adobe Systems. RJ: Scott, thank you. I started using FrameMaker pretty much since day one when Frame Technology owned it and have spent most of my career in Product Management for various companies, including Quadralay Corporation, eHelp Corporation, Macromedia and close to two years ago, I joined Adobe Systems, where I have one of the most exciting jobs as Read the full article…
In If These Walls Could Talk, technical communication maven Diane Wieland explores the possibility of using the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) as an antecedent, or precursor, to S1000D in order to create smaller bits of reusable information that can be used to create S1000D data modules, and at the same time be used for things like customer support, e-learning, parts catalogs, etc. Wieland interviews experts in the field to uncover the possibilities of integrating DITA and S1000D with other content standards, including Shareable Courseware Object Reference Model (SCORM). Wieland Read the full article…
Thanks to Oleg Krupnov for pointing us to StoryBoarder Pro, a tool for creating e-learning storyboards in MS Word. “Storyboards are important to production of effective e-Learning for several reasons,” Oleg wrote in a post to the Yahoo eLearning Group. “First, the storyboard documents the e-Learning design completely. Also, the brainstorming that often accompanies work on a storyboard may assist the creative process and result in a better design. Storyboards provide an important basis for project management, control, and communication. A storyboard can facilitate training of e-Learning novices, provide support Read the full article…
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