Rapid Media Development for Trainers: Creating Videos, Podcasts, and Presentations on a Budget

CHAPTER 1

The New Learning Frontier: Digital Content

In This Chapter:

•  What skills do learning professionals, whether they are trainers, teachers, or professors, need to create digital learning content?

•  What are the three characteristics of the new digital content ecosystem?

Learning professionals have always worked with media. Whether it’s a flipchart, mimeographed handouts, or acetates on an overhead projector, media has always been an important part of delivering training and educating people. It provides learners with multiple ways of learning and reinforcement. For example, an acetate shown on an overhead projector can more efficiently ...