Dave Boggs

Documentation and e-Learning (Part 6): Delivering Courses to Cell Phones

Do you want (or need) to deliver courses or documentation directly to your customers' cell-phone screens? And would you like to do it without making drastic changes to your LMS? Well, you can start right now, with an easy technique that allows learners to... Read >

Accessibility: Standards Not Enough

We're all familiar to some extent with accessibility tools. They allow people with disabilities to access the kind of web content (e-book, mobile, or other device) that the rest of us take for granted. Disabilities can range from color blindness to condit... Read >

Documentation and e-Learning (Part 5): Augmented Reality: An Eye-Popping New e-Learning Tool

As I described last time, dynamic web data and web-cam feeds are marvelous ways to hold learners' interest, by exposing them to live real-world resources. This is especially true in subjects like astronomy, geology, and marine biology. But how can an e-Le... Read >

Two Ways to Configure LMS Campuses

Depending on your company's organization and training requirements, you may want to configure Learning Management System (LMS) campuses in one of two ways: • As multiple entirely separate campuses. • As a single campus with separate "sub-campuses.... Read >

Documentation and e-Learning (Part 4): Make Your Courses Real for Students

School teachers know that reality is one of the greatest instructors. Chem-class explosions, telescope observations, and biology field trips can generate faster real learning than textbooks. And the discovery and adventure that accompany such experiences ... Read >

Tradeoffs When Deploying Online Video

Many technical considerations come into play when deploying online video content. It can be difficult to weed through all the techno-babble around video formats and codecs. Fortunately, the tools in the Flash platform make it relatively easy to set up vid... Read >

Documentation and e-Learning (Part 3): Learning Nuggets: An Idea Whose Time has Come?

Many e-Learning and documentation developers have already noticed that our audiences don't have as much patience for extended content as in the past. There are probably a couple reasons: • Increased use of portable information devices with tiny scree... Read >

AICC: Still a Viable Course Standard?

A Peek Into the Standard Many in the e-Learning industry know that "AICC" is not only a standard… but also the committee that defines it. The AICC, Aviation Industry Computer-based training (CBT) Committee, was formed in 1988 by aviation manufacturer... Read >

Documentation and e-Learning (Part 2): Show, Don’t Tell

For several years now, I've been writing poetry. The local poet who taught our class showed us a huge variety of poetic "forms": ABeCeDarius, Acrostic, Anaphora, Ars Poetica, Blank Verse, Crown of Sonnets, Eclogue, Haiku, Internal Rhyme, Nested Word, Ode,... Read >

Does your company require a Learning Content Management System (LCMS)?

A basic definition of a learning content management system implies that the system has authoring application, a data repository, a delivery interface, and administration toolsâ€"many of the things you find in a full-featured learning management system. S... Read >

Documentation and e-Learning (Part 1): They’re One and the Same

Documentation is as important a part of any product or service as hardware or software. But how many of us also think of documentation as online training? It is, you know. And better documentation might result if its authors remembered this. Take Syber... Read >

Spreading the e-Learning Word (Part 2)

In Part 1, I described some of the more "mainstream" ways to promote your organization and its e-Learning products to target audiences via the Web. This second part explores some additional Web channels that you may not have considered, specifically: â... Read >

Spreading the e-Learning Word (Part 1)

The Web is where many of our customers and users will increasingly "live" for their information needs. This means that anything we do to both deliver e-Learning and spread the word about our products and services "over the Cloud" will both serve our audie... Read >

Web 3.0, Schmeb 3.0

Sometime…oh, around 2004…you probably started hearing buzz about "Web 2.0…The next generation of the Internet." The term was coined by O'Reilly Media. And though everyone you ask gives you a different definition of the way Web 2.0 should look and fe... Read >

SCORM and the Learning Management System (LMS)

What actually is SCORM? SCORM, Shareable Content Object Reference Model, is a standard for web-based e-learning that has been developed to define communication between client-side content and a runtime environment. In the context of this article, the clie... Read >