Rapid content production and delivery in e-learning environments: use of Adobe Presenter, MS PowerPoint, Adobe Connect

Abstract

With the rapid development of internet technologies, intelligent flexible learning model finds a wider area of usage. Many of the education institutions started to present their distance education programs over the internet. Content production is an important part of the process in online environments. Production of the content that will be delivered in online learning environments includes a comprehensive process. In order to deliver the content without any problem, the course materials should be accommodated for the internet environment. Instructor can make his/her face-to-face lecture notes more attractive with animations, simulations, visuals, audio and video additions when presenting them in an e-learning environment. Multimedia tools and applications should be taken advantage of towards providing an effective, attractive and efficient e-course production for the learner. Education institutions need qualified staff in distance education for online programs. In many of the institutions there are a few personnel in distance education departments in the beginning, so contributions to content production by subject experts can be necessary. Rapid content production and delivery can be provided by using MS Powerpoint - which is used frequently by instructors-and some other additional software. Instructor's course lecture video, audio, visuals, tests, animation and music can be added to existing course contents to convert rapidly to online deliverable format. In this study, the process of delivering an instructor's lecture notes online with the addition of multimedia tools is mentioned with implementation examples.