{"id":6896,"date":"2018-11-08T16:43:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/udutunew.com\/?p=6896"},"modified":"2020-09-09T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T15:53:14","slug":"how-have-course-authoring-tools-changed-and-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/udutunew.com\/how-have-course-authoring-tools-changed-and-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"How Have Course Authoring Tools Changed and Improved?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Udutu has been giving away a powerful, free, online course authoring tool<\/a> since 2006. So far, nearly 89,000 organizations have created authoring tool accounts and have published more than 177,000 courses in the last 12 years.<\/em><\/p>\n

In recent years, the team at Udutu has been noticing changes to both content and course design. Let’s explore what is driving the changes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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How Have Course Authoring Tools Changed and Improved Since 2006?<\/h2>\n

In 2006, when Udutu first started providing our course offering tool for free, it was still taken for granted that the best way to learn something was to take a course. At the time, people still argued about whether a face to face course was as effective as an online course, and vice versa.<\/p>\n

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Still, the common denominator back in 2006 was that we assumed that a subject matter expert (SME) had taken a long time, perhaps years, to accumulate all the necessary knowledge and information, and was therefore the best source for learning.<\/p>\n

It’s Easier Than Ever Before to Turn Videos and Images Into Web Content<\/h3>\n

Back then, it wasn\u2019t easy for a subject matter expert to turn rich media content such as videos, images or animations into web content that was measurable or encoded with a standard such as SCORM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the logic involved with branching choices, automatic remediation or feedback, timed exercises, mandatory prerequisites and so on were all beyond the expertise of the average SME. Instead, a technology expert was required, or, better yet, an intuitive and easy-to-use authoring tool that would do all those things without having to learn a programming language.<\/p>\n

Enter Udutu’s course authoring tool.<\/p>\n

Udutu worried about how to make courses engaging, and what we could learn from the gaming industry, and we built all those things into our course authoring tool.<\/p>\n

Smartphones, Video and the Transformation of Online Learning Since 2006<\/h2>\n

So what changed?\u00a0 Well, perhaps biggest of all, the advent of smart phones, starting around 2008, combined with social media platforms, meant that now almost anyone could record movies or images, comments, or documents, and upload them to the web, share them, and even promote them.<\/p>\n

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With the introduction of smartphones, a massive proliferation of rich media became available, touching on almost every conceivable subject.<\/p>\n

The \u201csage on stage\u201d Subject Matter Expert was no longer quite so necessary, because with a little research anyone could find answers to most questions, and over time the competition for viewers pushed up the quality of much of the content.<\/p>\n

YouTube also became a prominent hub for online learning since 2006. A number of other proprietary platforms also appeared that aggregated easily produced content from instant \u201cexperts\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The only times when this rich source of learning was not enough, was when:<\/p>\n