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Enterprise LMS with Adobe Captivate Prime

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
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Enterprise LMS with Adobe Captivate Prime

By: Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate Prime is an enterprise learning management system (LMS) that enables organizations to deliver, manage, and track engaging learning experiences for employees, partners, and customers. This book will help you unlock the full potential of this platform to deliver world-class learning experiences. Complete with walkthroughs, examples, and strategies to fully understand Captivate Prime, this book will set you on the path to becoming an administrator, author, or teacher and see you experiment with Captivate Prime from different perspectives. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of how the features relate to one another and to your business. After setting up the platform, you'll learn how to push learning content online and arrange it to build an online course that provides a blended learning experience. You'll be able to deploy your content to different devices and explore Captivate Prime's features for monitoring your students' progress on a daily basis. Finally, you'll see how to organize and maintain your course catalog and take the learner experience to the next level. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to implement your organization’s training strategy and provide engaging learning experiences while building meaningful reports to monitor their effectiveness.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Publishing Learning Content
6
Section 2: Managing and Tracking Students' Learning
13
Section 3: Enhancing the Learner Experience
17
Section 4: Administering the Platform

Chapter 12: Enabling and Managing Social Learning

When taking face-to-face instructor-led classes, there is the formal learning time, during which attendees listen to the teacher's lecture. And then, there is a wealth of informal learning that occurs while casually discussing with others, doing group work, reading a book or an article that someone else had recommended, or really any time you are hanging around with your classmates. Some research even suggests that we retain more information from informal discussions and interactions than from traditional formal learning.

Teachers know how to take advantage of our natural desire for social interaction to facilitate learning and increase retention. Group work, peer review, presentations, and so on have been part of the traditional teaching arsenal for several hundred years.

At first glance, you might think that distance learning complicates or even prevents the social and informal aspects of learning. But this is without taking...