Welcome to the future! What a cliche'
line that has become, yet each year a new fancy technology appears on the news
and we are inundated with reviews and advertisements. Whatever it replaced
becomes nothing more than a 20 page craigslist search result for 1/4 what it
retailed for.
What are most used to seeing is consumer electronics, but there is another massive technology boom happening at work, that you may not even know about. Learning Management System or LMS as it often referred to is rapidly becoming a common method of curriculum delivery and curriculum management. I really wish I just say an LMS is the coolest thing since sliced bread, and we could all forge on with our basic HR training modules on the computer. However, that would mean we were stuck in 2003, because those basic HR modules are a thing of the past.
Within the eLearning arena we are seeing some amazing technology advancement and my goal with this blog is to share a couple of those ideas with you, so you don't spend all your time implementing old school learning tracks when there is an entire world of eLearning wonder right in front of you! This week, let's just scratch the surface with two ideas that you may not be familiar with.
First, let's talk bootstrap. Bootstrap you say? Twitter bootstrap is a hot new code writting system that is takign the LMS industry by storm. There are two angles to understand Twitter Bootstrap from, the developer side and the learner side. If you are a developer...you've wandered to the wrong blog; but it is said by www.sitepoint.com contributor Sayhed Ryman that "Some people call it a boon for web developers with zero designing knowledge, while others call it a blessing for the designers. Whatever it may be, it does things easier and faster."
Let's break it down as simple as we can. When you use an LMS on a computer, it's well laid out, organized, with menus down the left side (usually) and your options across the top, with a central area for the content. Have you ever tried to open that same LMS on a tablet, or even a cell phone. It's a nightmare. What Twitter Bootstrap does, when coded into your LMS, is break your entire LMS into five distinct boxes that are independent of one another. On a full size computer screen it will look normal, however your LMS now pays attention to the window size. If you're using a cell phone it will rearrange these five boxes the best way possible to keep the LMS looking terrific. Twitter Bootstrap coding will even go as far as to take text and mash it together into a convenient drop down box where there just isn't even space to display all the options. This might sound a bit confusing...until you see it at work the first time. Just imaging, no matter what device you are on, ipad, iphone, android, blackberry, mac, PC with a 60" monitor or a 7" montior....your LMS will adapt to that screen size like it was built for it. Twitter bootstrap coding does all this work!
What are most used to seeing is consumer electronics, but there is another massive technology boom happening at work, that you may not even know about. Learning Management System or LMS as it often referred to is rapidly becoming a common method of curriculum delivery and curriculum management. I really wish I just say an LMS is the coolest thing since sliced bread, and we could all forge on with our basic HR training modules on the computer. However, that would mean we were stuck in 2003, because those basic HR modules are a thing of the past.
Within the eLearning arena we are seeing some amazing technology advancement and my goal with this blog is to share a couple of those ideas with you, so you don't spend all your time implementing old school learning tracks when there is an entire world of eLearning wonder right in front of you! This week, let's just scratch the surface with two ideas that you may not be familiar with.
First, let's talk bootstrap. Bootstrap you say? Twitter bootstrap is a hot new code writting system that is takign the LMS industry by storm. There are two angles to understand Twitter Bootstrap from, the developer side and the learner side. If you are a developer...you've wandered to the wrong blog; but it is said by www.sitepoint.com contributor Sayhed Ryman that "Some people call it a boon for web developers with zero designing knowledge, while others call it a blessing for the designers. Whatever it may be, it does things easier and faster."
Let's break it down as simple as we can. When you use an LMS on a computer, it's well laid out, organized, with menus down the left side (usually) and your options across the top, with a central area for the content. Have you ever tried to open that same LMS on a tablet, or even a cell phone. It's a nightmare. What Twitter Bootstrap does, when coded into your LMS, is break your entire LMS into five distinct boxes that are independent of one another. On a full size computer screen it will look normal, however your LMS now pays attention to the window size. If you're using a cell phone it will rearrange these five boxes the best way possible to keep the LMS looking terrific. Twitter Bootstrap coding will even go as far as to take text and mash it together into a convenient drop down box where there just isn't even space to display all the options. This might sound a bit confusing...until you see it at work the first time. Just imaging, no matter what device you are on, ipad, iphone, android, blackberry, mac, PC with a 60" monitor or a 7" montior....your LMS will adapt to that screen size like it was built for it. Twitter bootstrap coding does all this work!
Now you have an idea of how to make
your LMS adapt to the many different
devices your students are using, but what about the media they are watching on
the LMS? Are talking animated heads still your favorite, or maybe just text? It’s
time to step up to another trend in online learning. Video! Do you know what
the second most popular search engine is right now? You would never guess it,
but according to elearningsolutionsmag.com, it’s youtube. People don’t want to
read anymore…sad but true. Our learners want to see expression, see examples,
they want to see video. We will get into this topic more, but for a few bucks
you can have an HD video camera, wireless mic and start dropping terrific
quality video content into your LMS to spice it up. The animated head has gone
the way of the Do Do Bird.
Resources
Rahman,
S, (2013, July 15) Twitter Bootstrap Tutorial – Handling Complex Design .
Retrieved from: http://www.sitepoint.com/twitter-bootstrap-tutorial-handling-complex-designs/
Clothier,
P, (2013, October 28) Interactive Video: The Next Big Thing in Mobile.
Retrieved from: http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1292/interactive-video-the-next-big-thing-in-mobile
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