Training Material
Training material is the entry point to customer engagement, and the emphasis on creating great training material is an important component for organizations looking for that competitive edge.
Trainers can take advantage of the content already created for the technical documents. By allowing trainers to easily capture and manipulate the common material (such as procedures), they can focus on creating the material unique to training, such as the learning objectives and exercises.
Sharing common content
With a CCMS, the trainers also save the time previously spent re-formatting technical content to their training format. There is a one-time setup process, which is scripted using the publishing engine. Then, whenever technical content is chosen in its “vanilla” format, the trainer chooses the Training output format, and the content is automatically formatted to the appropriate format.
Bluestream has been active in the E-Learning community since 2002. Initially Bluestream was involved with the SCORM reference model from ADL.net. This work culminated in a SCORM-enabled content management system.
Educational institution gets more mileage from standards-based authoring
The Company
Thompson Rivers UniversityThe Situation
A university that delivers distance education degrees wanted to find a less costly, more efficient way of delivering their course content.
The Challenge
The organization discovered that having created their learning content in a proprietary XML format, they were locked into using a costly, closed system. They were looking for an affordable solution that provided authoring and publishing of the proprietary XML to both print and Web formats.
The Solution
XDocs was implemented and configured to convert their content, and style it for publication in multiple output channels. This was accomplished with the XDocs open system. Best of all, the entire cost of XDocs was a third of the annual support costs of maintaining their legacy content management system!