March 03, 2004
eLearning Flash Developer's Symposium next month
I just saw this online and thought I'd spread the word. There is an elearning Flash Developer's Symposium in Boston, April 19-21.
More info is available at elearningguild.com.
Session #2 in the Agenda reads like my job description. I designed, built & maintain the Flash-based eLearning engine & content editing tools we use at work. I guess people solve common problems using common solutions...
Posted by andy at March 3, 2004 11:41 AMheh - nice. this description of part of Session 2: 'See how building a Flash 'component' that reads XML can allow one course engine to play any number of different content courses and make customizing the user interface easy.' sounds EXACTLY like the article i wrote for them (eLearningGuild.com) a couple years ago... too funny. i should go just to see. ;-)
and as for solving common problems with common solutions, i have to agree - i do the same... though it still seems we're few and far between at times.
g.
Posted by: g.wygonik at March 3, 2004 02:25 PMHow about designing a extensible Framework to run courses with different course structure and interfaces. A Component Based Framework, where you can drag and drop components and bind them to make course working in minutes.
Which allow you to take any type of course structure. like
only pages, modules with topics, or only topics etc
I am currently make a framework based MVC architecture, which will allow us to build Flash WBT/CBTs in minimum time. Where we can attach any view elements any time. My main focus is on Abstraction of model and Messaging system. I am probably looking at hot-hooks and plugin-play architecture kind of thing.
I will not be able to participate in Symposium, but if i were there, i would like talk about
- Abstraction of requirement
- Component based Framework
- Datasources (not onyl xml)
Something which bothers me is course structure.
Currently its like,
--------------
Course
|--Module1
|--Topic1
|--Page1
|--Page2
|--Pagen
|--Topic 2
.
.
.
|--Module2
---------------
But if structure changes, how i am going to handle?
Implementing differnt transversing policies. In some course, once a topic is over we go to menu and in other course we move to another topic etc etc.
If someone can share his/her thoughts, it would help us.
Regards.
Abdul
oops! formatting is lost, i meant
Course
----courseMenu.swf
----courseIntro.swf
----course.xml
----Module1
-------menu.swf
|------intro.swf
------Topic1
-------screen1.swf
-------screen2.swf
-------screenN
----Module2
------
somthing like that..
If you have separate elements of content, like Learning Objects, it's always a great place to start. As you said, you could then dynamically arrange these in any order you wish to produce a course using XML (or any other data source).
Using XML files is nice because you don't always have to rely on a database. This is important when dealing with the SCORM standard, which relies on being able to compress your Learning Objects into ZIP files for deployment to anyone else's system. The less you rely on your own custom architecture, the easier it is to post your content to other eLearning systems.
Posted by: andy makely at March 4, 2004 09:42 AMHi
I would like you to have a look at Flash-O-Navigation(Macromedia Approved), the ultimate Flash component (always growing!) for e-learning in seconds.
Read about its feature and download a copy.
Share your vision / ideas/ feedbackson this.
http://www.samirshomepage.com/flashonavigation/home.html
regards
Samir
Thanks for the usefully informations on elearningguild.com Very interesting! Thanks for sharing it
@Webdesigner Harun Isik