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Learning Market Demands
Today's eLearning market is demanding:
- Flexibility: Learning occurs in many ways in many places.
- Lifecycle Management: Content must be maintained, updated and managed over time.
- Reuse: It is better to repurpose than to rebuild over and over again.
The key to meeting these demands is future-proofing.
Future-Proof Content
No one knows exactly how technology will evolve, but following some basic principles will make it easier to update and repurpose your content when it does. Formats and functionality based on open standards typically have wider support and are longer lived than proprietary formats. Open standards also reduce dependencies on single vendors. Developing modular content instead of monolithic courses increases the likelihood that portions of your content can be reused when revisions are needed or when contexts change. Properly separating the content, presentation, structure, and instructional strategy of a course enables each to be updated independently of the others. This reduces the time and cost of maintenance and makes the content more adaptable. Tagging content with useful metadata aids search and discovery. You must first find your content before you can repurpose it! Tools also play a role in future-proofing. If revisions to your courseware require specialized tools, they will always be expensive and beyond the capabilities of Subject Matter Experts.
The first generation of eLearning content was developed with the goal of replacing classroom instruction and training manuals with online courses. The need for flexibility, lifecycle management, and reuse was not strongly recognized. For the next generation of eLearning content and technology, these have become requirements.
First Generation Content | | Future-proof Content | | Monolithic and linear | | Modular and adaptive |
| Used in one place in one way |
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Adaptible to multiple contexts |
| Skilled developers required | |
Maintainable by SMEs |
| Proprietary formats |
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Open standards |
| Often a well-kept secret |
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Tagged and searchable |
The Path to Future-Proof Content
You don’t have to start from scratch to future-proof your content. Eduworks has years of experience with standards, eLearning technology, enterprise architectures, instructional design, and content development. We can help you:
- Transform the way you develop and manage content within your existing infrastructure with future-proofing in mind
- Convert your first generation courseware to modular content that uses SCORM 2004 capabilities to cleanly separate content from its presentation, structure and instructional design
- Tag your content for search and discovery
Eduworks has also developed core technologies that help you future-proof your content. These include:
Tenereo
 Tenereo is a powerful yet simple desktop application that enables subject matter experts, instructional designers and content developers to repurpose, update, enhance and publish standards-based e-learning content. Tenereo is based on the principle that content, presentation, structure, and learning strategy should all be separated, managed separately and changed independently.
Learn more about Tenereo...
Metadata Technologies
 At the heart of a next generation enterprise solution is quality metadata that enables you to find and index your content and match it to organizational objectives and competencies. Eduworks offers metadata technologies that automate the process of metadata generation and maintenance.
Content Conversion
We can help you convert your existing courseware into furuter-proof content.
Learn more about content conversion services...
Competency Management
Content should be explicitly tied to skills, knowledge, regulatory requirements, and learning objectives (together known as competencies). Eduworks can provide a solution that manages these competencies and enables their use throughout the entire eLearning content lifecycle.
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