In this Issue:

• What You Don’t Know About PowerPoint WBT: Starting With Deployment
• What’s Hot: Learning Wikis
• Reserve Your Copy of PowerPoint For Web-Based Training

I was surprised to receive an emergency phone call from a student who attended my popular Web-Based Training Using PowerPoint webinar series. I knew that this participant was well grounded in instructional design and an experienced developer for a Fortune 500 company. Using systematic instructional design processes, she had created a very engaging multi-hour PowerPoint product knowledge course that included a wide range of interactivity and animations. Unfortunately, when she packaged the course for deployment using a popular PowerPoint to streaming movie tool, all the engaging and fun animations disappeared. Over a month of work gone! What happened? I shared with her that the solution is to design with deployment in… Learn more

A Wiki is a website that supports content sharing. It allows a team of people to access the same site, uploading and formatting content to suit their desire. The key benefit of a Wiki is that the users can create, search and maintain information that is of interest to the work group in real time. Most Wiki users think Wikis are best for small team remote facilitation, informal learning, as a help desk for employees and as a technology to disseminate best practices. My experience is that depending on the site, Wikis can be quite challenging to… Learn more

I am preparing a workbook for instructional designers, trainers, subject matter experts and developers interested in implementing PowerPoint for web-based training. It will be available in PDF format and/or print in March 2007. The 81/2" by 11" workbook will be approximately 250 pages long and provide ready to implement PowerPoint templates, including a wide range of games, role based simulations and interactive exercises. I’m writing this workbook for two reasons: First, cycle time to design, develop, test and deploy online learning is too long for most organizations. Most corporate web-based training projects take months, yet organizations need to publish learning content online in weeks. Secondly, the cost of online learning is not concentrated in design and development, but in managing the life cycle (maintenance). My experience with over 200 Fortune 1000 companies is that content updating impacts approximately 25% of published WBT pages annually. In addition, content growth can be as much as 60% per year. As a consequence, the cost of e-Learning courses is hidden in the burden of updating and adding new content. PowerPoint development for Web-Based Training makes this major challenge easier to manage. Reserve your copy of the workbook and get 25% off the list price by emailing info@askintl.com and requesting to be placed on the reservation list… Learn more