SUPPORTING E-LEARNING CONTENT FROM LINE OF BUSINESS APPLICATIONS - WORKING WITH OFFICE FILES FOR E-LEARNING CONTENT INTEGRATION

Often, the same content creation processes are repeated, without real benefit, only supporting a different kind of presentation medium (e.g. Slide, Webpage, Textbook, etc.). It is time to industrialize the creation of e Learning content if you want to keep the quality, cost and time to market of your e-Learning content in check. There are two key elements in how you can industrialize your e-Learning content creation without compromise: The first strategy is to focus on modular content. Think of modular content as building blocks, that are still agnostic of the presentation medium they will end up in. By creating these building blocks first, you focus your creative and editorial efforts on creating reusable pieces of content that can easily be assembled into presentation medium specific content and reused, recombined and/or localized. The second one is to structure and streamline the content creation process. A two-step content creation process is where both strategies meet. First you create content blocks. Then you assemble them into "learning content". But that is NOT todays reality in "learning content" production.