The Iona Group’s Chad Udell and Mark Tovey will be presenting at the eLearning Guild’s annual developer conference, DevLearn. The session is titled: “Stop Building it from Scratch! How to Build a Reusable e-Learning Framework
“. The conference is held each fall in San Jose and draws thousands of eLearning Developers worldwide to come and learn about the latest eLearning development tools, techniques and strategies.
From the site description:
Is your organization constantly going
through the same development path to produce your e-Learning…
rehashing the same code, digging through line after line of spaghetti,
and not seeing any real reuse benefits? If you want to leverage your
intellectual property, and put your toolset to work for you, come ready
to take note of practical tools, tips, and techniques you can employ
immediately to enjoy productivity benefits.In this session,
you’ll learn secrets that Rapid Development gurus use. If you are tired
of simple tools that speed up development, but really tie your hands
when it comes to true customization, you need to learn more about
application programming interfaces (APIs). The Web 2.0 world has
largely been shaped by the emergence of Web services and the dominance
of XML, yet so few e Learning development programs allow you to tap
into those powerful tools. You’ll leave this session with ideas on how
to build your own APIs, or use preexisting ones, right away.In this session, you will learn:
- The benefits of building content in a reusable format
- Practical examples of reusable e-Learning concepts
- How to apply object-oriented development techniques to e-Learning
- What APIs are, and how you can use them to speed up development
- Techniques for designing your own e-Learning APIs
- Designing data schemas for flexibility
Audience:
Advanced
designers and developers with basic programming skills in ActionScript,
and who have edited XML. Deeper understanding of XML concepts and
terminology will assist in greater understanding of this topic.
This is the second year for Iona to attend the conference, but the first year they will be presenting there. The conference starts November 9th, and ends November 13th 2009. Chad and Mark’s session is on November 12th.
The session and more information about the conference can be found at the event’s site here.
