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“Documentation and e-Learning (Part 5): Get Real! Try ‘Augmented Reality (AR),’” by Dave Powell, Documentation Manager for SyberWorks, Inc.
Read these articles below to learn more about Documentation and e-Learning.Here is a quick summary of what you get in Dave Powell's series, 'Documentation and e-Learning.'
In Part 5 of this series, Dave Powell talks about using ‘Augmented Reality,’ a mix of web-cam feeds with computer-generated images, UI elements, and text streaming video content that allows students to explore in online training courses.
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In Part 4, Dave Powell talks about using real time, streaming video content that allows students to explore in online training courses. He sites examples such as using http://lasiktv.com in an eye doctor training course or using http://www.volcanolive.com/volcanocams.html in an e-learning course on volcanoes and others.
The thrust of the article is to encourage instructional designers and e-learning developers to use online, real time or near real time events to spark student inquisitiveness and increase learner engagement.
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In Part 3, Dave Powell talks about users’ growing impatience with documentation that involves vast quantities of text. He also discusses some new trends in the industry that are aimed at overcoming this, such as ‘learning nuggets’.
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In Part 2, Dave Powell discusses how 'showing' users information instead of 'telling' them is helpful in both documentation and e-Learning.
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In Part 1, Dave Powell talks about why 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.
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About the Author
Dave Powell is Documentation Manager for SyberWorks Inc. ( http://www.syberworks.com), a privately-held supplier of e-Learning software and training. For the past 15 years, he has written award-winning marketing collateral and user documentation for hardware/software companies like PictureTel, 3Com, Philips Medical Systems, Polaroid, and SyberWorks. Prior to that, he edited and wrote for publications like Computerworld, Infosecurity News, Networking Management, Digital Design, LightWave, Popular Computing, Harvard Business Review, and Leaders. (During that time, he also served as an author and Editorial Advisor for Sesame Street.)
About SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks, Inc. ( http://www.syberworks.com) is a leader in the custom e-Learning Solutions and Learning Management System/Learning Content Management System (LMS/LCMS) industries for Fortune 1000 corporations, law enforcement, healthcare, and other industries. Located in Waltham, Massachusetts, the company serves the multi-billion-dollar e-Learning market. Since 1995, SyberWorks has developed and delivered unique and economical solutions to create, manage, measure, and improve e-Learning programs at companies and organizations in the United States, Canada, Europe, and around the world.
Source: PRWeb and SyberWorks, Inc
