Well....the industry is still moving clumsily along with 'black box' technology, yet the most powerful learning tool in the world has completely changed the way people learn and has also demonstrated what learning could be. I would suggest that the Google search engine has done more for learners and learning than any other million dollar app out there. In fact, I would even suggest that Google has provided a will to the web on how people should learn. People have changed their own expectations and clearly show that they don't want 'event' based training, but rather the tools to give them the answers when they need them. So the web wants us to learn through performance support based paradigms (that may include full courses) and we want to learn that way also.
So why does our industry ignore what's happening and continue to work on technology that the web doesn't understand. Structured authoring for learning is the process that supports learning technologies that are understood by the web. What the web understands, the web can process. What the web can process results in pinpoint information when we need it the most. What platform is more ubiquitous than the web? Why not use it.
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efinitely agree - people are becoming increasingly comfortable with non-linear Web learning.
But, the authoring tools industry is still stuck on a weak imitation of classroom training: linear, slide-based navigation, without even the benefit of an instructor to ask questions.
I loathe talking PowerPoint, and would rather go back one more generation in learning tech to a good old fashioned, optionally non-linear book.
Yip. Even the stuff that isn't talking PowerPoint is still useless. Complex games that wrap simple content into minyutes worth of exploration is distancing a person from the knowledge that can get them to do what they need to do now.
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