RevMedia for CBT/eLearning (Preston Shea)

[Bob Earp]

Thanks for the reply Preston.  Myself and colleagues have been developing CBT stuff (mainly technical subjects that include mini simulations) for an awful lot of years and have used most tools that could be referred to as RAD, and some specialized CBT authoring products.  Hypercard, SuperCard, and ToolBook have been the tools of choice until Rev came along, and we are now using that but only for simulations and RAD work.  
 
The problem is that we have developed a major suite of authoring tools and a very good navigation shell within ToolBook that increases our productivity immensely while not requiring content developers to know much script.  The authoring/delivery environment is very robust and extremely well liked by clients as they get to maintain their own projects with very little training or skills.  We are very slowly moving the TB stuff to Rev, but we've invested years of development and don't have the luxury of a major project to pay for the redevelopment.  So when I saw RevMedia released that mentioned its use as a tool to develop training, I was encouraged that maybe a new solution had evolved.  
 
However, over the years an awful lot of applications have said they were training authoring tools (even PowerPoint !!), but almost none are a tool that anybody seriously into the development of CBT/eLearning would wish to use.  I suspect that RevMedia falls into this category.
 
best, Bob...
 
 
>    You may get swamped with replies about using Rev for CBT/eLearning because the whole "Card" family of software has been used for this kind of >programming since way back in the days of HyperCard. Has to do with simplicity of use and Apple's historic position in the education market, I suppose. >    If you check out the links here, on the Rev website and Rev web ring you'll find dozens, possibly hundreds of active developers in the education/training >area. Many of them offer free modules for quizzes etc.This sort of show-and-tell is so simple to create with x-talk that most people seem to just make their >own. I'm not sure what limitations in navigation you are thinking of, but if you post a specific question here you are pretty likely to get a solution.>    There are some products that promise drag-and-drop creation of eLearning software. I used one by M****media that was nifty but time consuming. >There are some quizmaker gizmos out there that have a sort of fill-in-the-blanks interface that is even more idiot-proof.  The problem is that if you want a >product that is pedagogically sound and/or visually appealing, you end up having to write some sort of code instruction. There may be an easier language to >pick up than Revolution, but I don't know what it is.> >Preston
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