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Hi Reuben:
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Rapid Authoring – What are they saying?Many trainers are finding the solution is at hand with rapid authoring tools which allow non IT specialists to write their own, high quality, e-learning in record time.
Mike AlcockAs Reuben Tozman points out, ‘Tools are not skills. Word processors don’t turn bad writers into good ones.’ Agreed, so take a little time to provide the skills. Rapid e-learning may be disposable, but it still has to be fit for purpose.
Clive Shepherd
Rapid Authoring – What am I saying?Getting To The Heart Of The Problem
E-learning is multidisciplinary. E-learning is about learning theory and it is also about technology. To create an e-learning program you must be able to create content that is consistent with the academia, literature and best practices around learning theories. You must also be able to create a piece of technology that is consistent with the literature, academia and best practices around electronic communications.
Myth About Tools
The Problem – Current Rapid Authoring
Poorly designed coursesShort term savings, long term hasslesProprietary formats at the sourceDevaluation of expertise at all levels
The Solution – Future Rapid Authoring
Team based approachOpen source technologySeparation of content from presentation and delivery
Instructional design templates versus technology based templates
Rapid Authoring the Next Level
We can author content for multiple delivery platforms in a single file.
We can re-brand and convert 1000 courses to a new learning management system at the same speed as converting 1 course.
We can author content for a flash exercise without ever opening flash to do so.
We can do all this using non-proprietary software.
The Basics - HTML vs. XML
XML is not a replacement for HTML.XML and HTML were designed with different goals:
XML was designed to describe data and to focus on what data is.
HTML was designed to display data and to focus on how data looks.
HTML is about displaying information, XML is about describing information.
What is the Structured Content Development Model
Content Structures<BH2007><page><list> <bulletedPoint>Content Structures define
content type. </bulletedPoint> <bulletedPoint>For example, we could define this
bullet as a “bulleted point”. </bulletedPoint> <bulletedPoint>The “bulleted point” is part of a
“list”. </bulletedPoint> <bulletedPoint>The “list” is part of a “page”.
</bulletedPoint> <bulletedPoint>The “page” is being seen by
“BH2007 attendees”. </bulletedPoint> </list></page></BH2007>
Content Structures – Rapid AuthoringExample: Content Structure for a multiple choice question.
Content Structures – Rapid AuthoringExample: Content Structure for a puzzle exercise
Content Structures – Rapid AuthoringExample: Bloom’s Taxonomy and DITA
Delivery Templates – ‘Processing’Dictate what to do with content structures and elements.
Made up of Style Sheet and Delivery.How it looks, How it behaves, How it’s delivered.
LMS Standards are found here.Multiple delivery templates (processing) for a single content structure.
Rapid Authoring Demo
Changing Puzzle with NotepadView It
YOUR TURNModify the existing notepad file, save it under a different name and return to me.Choices – Multiple Choice or Puzzle?
Getting Started
“That’s great but I don’t think we’re ready for that”.
Everybody
Getting Started
Like any other change, it requires commitment.
Implementation requires one (1) to two (2) months.
Team members include: Project Manager, Instructional Designer, Writers, Schema Developers, Web Developers, QA, SMEs.
Design a content model.
Getting Started – Tools
XML Editor (XML Spy, XML Mind, Infopath, etc)
Stylesheet Editor (Stylevision)DITA Opensource Toolkit (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot)
Getting Started – Standards
DITA (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita) (dita.xml.org)
S1000D (http://www.s1000d.org/)SCORM (www.adlnet.org)
