The aim of this chapter is to provide practical training for e-learning and authoring approaches. For theoretical and instructive information about the e-learning functionality and how people can learn from e-courses, you can see chapter : ”VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING OVERVIEW”.
Authoring is the act of developing instructional content. This can be done by using specialized software to combine text, graphics, sound, animation and digital video into a completed multimedia application (which can be also called multimedia piece). Authoring software also offer templates for creating learning courses and features for building tests and quizzes. A multimedia piece refers to different types of communication such as:
· an intranet-based training course;
· an interactive kiosk;
· an online magazine;
· a computer simulation of industrial equipment
When authoring a multimedia piece, you should follow the same traditional development steps:
· Analysis;