Hi Duc
Some of my notes got overtaken by the Learningpool update to the authoring tool, plus Chuck Lorenz has now written some excellent new wiki pages which will be added to the authoring tool shortly.
Hopefully I will be able to add something useful to the wiki once it's updated.
Cheers
Dan
Hi Dan Gray,
How about the documentation regard to deploying? Did you complete the documentation? If yes, please share it to us.
I think the document will be very useful for community as it will help a lot of people who are not expert in technical.
Thank you in advance.
Best and Regards,
Duc
Hi Paul!
Thank you for your immediate response and your suggestions! I think, with mobile learning appearing on the stage, learning designers (and strategists) have to select even better beforehand which information will be suitable for which channel. When it comes to smartphones, the preferred device when people are on the go, we might have to restrict information to nuggets of microlearning, to refresher modules, to quick reminders or job aids. Content on mobile devices could also serve as a kind of teaser which stimulates learners’ curiosity and persuades them to log on through their desktop PCs or tablets to delve deeper later on. With concepts such as “mobile first” I think we are on the right track.
As concerns potential distractions and interruptions: So far I see only one solution: We have to present great content AND at the same time have to make learning even more engaging, more worth learners’ precious time and maybe even: more fun (imagine that! Anyone rolling their eyes yet?). By great content I mean: relevant, well-structured, didactically sound, concise and crisp. So, the learning design basics.
On top of that, we have to make learning more compelling. When it comes to learners’ engagement, I think, learning design can take a bit of inspiration from web and editorial design as well as from advertising. Of course, we are not in the entertainment business – our business is serious. ;) Yet, we should be careful not to make it DEAD serious (nobody wants lifeless courses). So, just because it’s learning this does not mean that courses have to be dry. I think learning and advertising share at least two characteristics: Both rival for people’s attention and both try to persuade them and want to elicit a certain kind of behaviour.
So what I think we have to make clear to learners is: Why should they spend their time on our e-learning modules? What will be their benefit? Moreover, we have to become better at the “persuasive arts”: storytelling and design, amongst others. Any other suggestions on this note?
Cheers,
Elisabeth
Hi Peggy,
thanks for your question!
In addition to Ollie's response, I thought I'd add some more high level thoughts:
For the less technical audience, I have often found the terms 'adaptive' and 'responsive' to be used interchangeably. This can lead to a good deal of confusion in terms of really understanding the capabilities of tools / solutions - so I thought it might be worth highlighting the different principles (without necessarily giving them a name).
Adapt implements a 'responsive' approach.
As per Ollie's post, this is mainly done by responding to the screen size of the device you are using to look at the content. This is fixed on smartphones and tablets and variable on a desktop / laptop. Adapt is truly responsive, which means it changes as and when the size of the browser window screen real estate changes. This means that by reducing the width of the browser window on a desktop / laptop, you can see how it would look and behave like on a smartphone and tablet. (There is some additional checking on device capabilities going on, too, btw - this is also a factor in determining behaviour).
As mentioned, I have seen both terms (responsive, adaptive) used to describe this behaviour and approach.
The alternative to this approach is to have multiple versions of the course, which are optimised for a single or small range of devices. This could include publishing native apps for the various key OSs (e.g. iOS, Android etc.)
The principle of 'adaptive learning':
This is a fundamentally different thing as it applies to the learning content, rather than the technology. Briefly summarised, this means that the learning content presented to the learner varies according to their interaction with the content. In other words, the course tries to serve up the content, which is most suited to the learner's ability and the gaps in their knowledge.
A simple example of this would be as follows:
So, in summary, the course analyses and adapts to the the learner.
At this point, this functionality does not exist within Adapt - however, we know that this is a key trend in the industry and would be keen to engage with anyone who is interested in helping develop out this type of functionality. In the meantime, there are a few work-arounds (e.g. developing branching scenarios etc.), which go some way towards this.
Hopefully, this helpful and does not add to the confusion :-)
Sven
On iPad2 iOS 7.1.2 (and 8.1.3) Safari the feedback appears not in the middle of visible area (viewport) but in the middle of the scrollable page - which means you have to scroll to see the FB. Has anyone seen this behaviour and was it resolved?
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Appitierre are looking for a developer work with Adapt - building extensions, themes, menus and components. They should also understand node.js and how to build SPA's using both Backbone (frontend) and node.js (backend). We are also developing new tools, so there will be a lot of varied work with lots of opportunity.
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the problem I am facing is I installed Node.js and Github and Git also on windows 7x64 home edition
When i try to install other packages from npm such as grunt and adapt, not able to install adapt-cli
showing some error in unicode and bufferstool
before installing these should I install python also on my system ?
or am I missing some steps for installation
Please help me out
thanks and regards
Deepak Rustagi
I think this is an excellent idea.
FYI the current demo is also quite broken in safari iOS 8 - as someone has pointed out here: https://community.adaptlearning.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=534
So we really need to get that updated - suggest doing once new version is out.
Hi Nicolas
The demo that you're looking at is actually based on a really old version of the Adapt code and does appear to have some pretty bad layout issues in iOS8 Safari.
We've plans to update this demo so that it's built from the latest version - but are currently committing all resources to actually getting the new version built and released at this stage.
If you follow the documentation to get and build Adapt from the current master you'll find it works fine with iOS 8 Safari.
FYI the 'triggered components' in the demo work fine for me with the iPad in landscape mode. In portrait mode, it does appear immediately - though whether this is deliberate or a bug in the old code, I'm not sure.
