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eXact learning
solutions
Abbazia dell'Annunziata,
Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio,
16039 Sestri Levante (GE), Italy
Phone: +39 0185 4761; Web
www.exact-learning.com
4th May 2012
eXact learning solutions runs free webinar on the DITA XML
content standard for blended online, mobile and instructor-led
technical training and documentation
A 90-minute webinar will take place on 23rd May at 11am US Eastern
Time, 10am US Central Time, 8am Pacific Time, 4pm BST and 5pm
Central European Time. Seats are free but limited and granted on a
'first come first served' basis. To request a seat at the webinar,
visit: http://gnstx.gr/eEX
DITA, the Darwin Information Typing Architecture, Learning &
Training specialization is a new structured content XML format for
producing online and instructor-led training and documentation
materials.
The standard is issued by OASIS, the US-headquartered global
consortium for open standards in the Information Society, which aims
to boost the convergence of technical and training documentation
within engineering and process orientated industries, such as the
machine plants, semiconductor, automotive, financial,
pharmaceutical, translation and defence industries.
Today's instructional authors, designing technical training sessions
within large engineering, manufacturing and process based
industries, need to cope with some 90% of their input materials
coming from disparate sources within their organisations. Typically,
these include the product and plant engineering, design and
marketing departments - all of which use different content packaging
and exchange standards (for example, DocBook, ePub, IETM and/or
S1000D).
All of these differ from those commonly used within learning/
training tools and platforms - such as SCORM, IMS and AICC content
packaging and tracking interchange formats.
This lack of a common interoperability format across the technical
documentation, training platforms and tools has limited, to date,
the type of documents that training departments could receive as
input from their technical counterparts to Word, PDF and HTML, for
example.
Yet - to compete successfully in contemporary markets, reaching
their workforce where and when they need field training and
performance support - there is a need to create compelling training
materials able to deal with the increasing complexity and blending
of technical training formats, from Instructor-Led Sessions to WBT,
Mobile learning and beyond.
The 'cut and paste' approach was the most commonly used approach to
producing technical documentation for online training delivery. This
resulted in high levels of content replication, low levels of
content re-use and extremely high costs in engaging subject matter
experts (SMEs) within never-ending proof-reading cycles.
All those engaged in designing training for new products and
processes around the world have experienced high levels of
inefficiency in online training design. So they have been looking
for an improved interoperability format to allow them to exchange
contents among the diverse and dispersed knowledge hubs within their
organisations more easily.
The DITA Learning & Training specialization now addresses this gap
and brings new life to content interoperability across and within
large organisations dealing with massive and rapid technical
documentation and training materials production flows.
In the webinar, Fabrizio Cardinali, an expert in interoperability
standards, co-writer of many of the IMS, SCORM and AICC content
specifications and CEO of eXact learning solutions North America - a
world leading provider of online and mobile learning content
management solutions - explains the need for new generation
structured content management standards and the benefit of adopting
DITA. He also outlines how it compares and can be integrated with
other existing learning content formats such as SCORM Content
Packaging and IMS Common Cartridge.
During the webinar, Mr Cardinali will combine theory with practical
hands-on sessions, using the new DITA content authoring and
management plug-in for the eXact LCMS and eXact Mobile platforms to
import state-of-the-art DITA documentation and convert it to SCORM
and AICC formats for online and mobile learning.
In addition to this free online webinar, eXact learning solutions is
running a series of closed DITA seminars for content strategists
within large organisations, as well as a series of open workshops at
public events and venues throughout Europe and the USA. The next
workshop will be held in Utrecht, in The Netherlands, on 7th June,
and is connected with the DITA Information Energy 2012 conference.
If you are interested in joining any of these workshops or would
like to organise closed webinars within your organisation, send an
email to m.leikas@exactls.com
Further details of DITA can be obtained from
www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita/
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About eXact
learning solutions
eXact learning solutions, formerly Giunti Labs, is a leading online
and mobile learning content management and digital repository
solutions provider, which offers a wide range of tools and services
for content development, content management and content delivery,
covering:
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Learning
content management and digital repository platforms
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Mobile learning
technologies
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Consulting and
professional services
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Multi-language
bespoke learning content production
The company has
over 15 years of experience and more than 100 customers worldwide.
Its technological innovations allow enterprises to improve their
organisational performance, and achieve significant reductions in
business costs.
For more information, please contact:
Maria Teresa Rubino, eXact learning solutions, Marketing Manager
Mobile +39 389 4573163; Office +39 0185 4608; Email
m.rubino@exactls.com
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR,
Office +44 (0)1727 860405; Email
bob.little@boblittlepr.com
