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Jeff Katzman and I recently gave the following presentation at Eliott Masie’s Learning2007. It’s called Reusability 2.0: Real World Strategies for Designing Learning Content for Reuse. This was the first time we gave this presentation, so, not having set stratospheric expectations, we were a bit taken aback by the overwhelmingly positive response to the session.
Upon reflection, it became clear that although our audience had heard about the possibility of designing for content reusability in the past, none of them had actually seen how it could be done. Through our interactive discussion, they quickly realized that designing learning content for reuse didn’t require a rigid structure or vanilla content. What everyone learned that day at Masie was that instructional designers could in-fact merge a single source authoring environment with adapting content for different audiences and contexts. It really opened some eyes - or as one instructional designer told me after the session: “I had an epiphany!”
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