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Hi Kim,With that much content (500 pages. Yikes!), I'm guessing there is a level of detail there that doesn't lend itself well to e-learning.If it's important to have that reference document available, certainly a PDF as an attachment can work. But to your point, kinda long and boring that way.Have you considered one of the Flash-based flipbook programs as an alternative?
They turn PDFs into animated books, and the better ones allow all sorts of cool features like DynamicTable of Contents, Page Edge Tabs, Multi-media Embedding, etc, plus the output can be rendered in a variety of ways to make it web-page compatible (even HTML5) or stand-alone.We used to use KviSoft's software for this for a while. Then recently upgraded to really really nice software.Hope this helps,BobPS: SUPER easy to convert your existing documents this way. It's all automatic and takes just a couple of minutes typically. Great responses, everyone.Currently our new associates get a paper copy of the training manual, and I make the pdf available too, but it is clunky and definitely not fun to read/search on a smart phone.I'm open to a flipbook, but in considering the great apps that are out there (LinkedIn, Goodreads, FaceBook are a few of my favorites), I'm really trying to blow up my content and make it simple to get to their desired information in no more than four taps.Historically, our learners have been instructed to read a chapter in the manual and then view the accompanying recording. More and more I'm questioning whether they are even reading the material.
I see them viewing the recording, taking the quiz, and skipping strait to the next recording. In a way, I'm okay with that if I can create a great performance support tool for them that takes the 500 pages and turns it into a user-friendly app experience rather than a traditional slog through pages and pages of material (dental insurance no less!). You also might want to look at converting it to EPUB format, which can be read/converted by most e-reader apps. I personally do not like flipbooks at all, all I want in an ebook is the ability to bookmark, search, and a TOC to locate sections of the book. I don't need to 'pretend' I'm paging through a book.If it were me, I'd consider converting the training manual into a reference manual and move everything that's redundant with your courses into a handout or set of handouts that accompany the course.
The reference manual is the one that you want to be searchable/usable on all platforms. Great advice, Vasily.There are quite a few tools available to build EPUB's. If you want something a bit more robust for EPSS organization, you might consider a tool like. It's expensive but offers multiple publish pathways including an HTML native, EPUB, and PDF output. If you're doing a lot of these, having a tool that handles all of the cross-linking and tagging is a big time saver.I really like what Apple did with the iBooks Author tool.
Rich widgets are potentially really powerful. I.hate. that they made the most powerful output into a proprietary package relegated to run only on iPads. You.can. use IBA to build EPUB format documents. But I believe it's a cut down version of EPUB2, which isn't as fantastic as EPUB3 (which I don't think is 'standards ready' or widely used).You might try for simpler EPUB2 packaged outputs.
If most of your output is text-based and rich media isn't a concern, EPUB is a fantastic target. If you want something with more flexibility, you're going to want to find a fully featured HTML tool (and you'll need some Web Dev skills if you want to make it dance). I don't have experience with courses that include both e-learning and a training manual. However, once upon a time I started developing an e-learning to supplement a training manual (for software), then just threw away the training manual.
Because it was a software course, obviously the content lent itself to e-learning.I think it depends on your content. You might be able to rebuild the e-learning so it shows an outline of what to do, when, and the detailed references for any decision making required would be in the manual. In other words, the e-learning is the 'this is what it is' or 'this is what you do/how it works' and the manual would be the specifications, or rules. I don't see any need to convert the manual to digital format, but it might need reorganising into a more search friendly format.Does that make sense?.
Analog refers to circuits in which quantities such as voltage or current vary at a continuous rate. When you turn the dial of a potentiometer, for example, you change the resistance by a continuously varying rate. The resistance of the potentiometer can be any value between the minimum and maximum allowed by the pot.If you create a voltage divider by placing a fixed resistor in series with a potentiometer, the voltage at the point between the fixed resistor and the potentiometer increases or decreases smoothly as you turn the knob on the potentiometer.In digital electronics, quantities are counted rather than measured. There’s an important distinction between counting and measuring. When you count something, you get an exact result.
When you measure something, you get an approximate result.Consider a cake recipe that calls for 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of milk, and 2 eggs. To get 2 cups of flour, you scoop some flour into a 1-cup measuring cup, pour the flour into the bowl, and then do it again. To get a cup of milk, you pour milk into a liquid measuring cup until the top of the milk lines up with the 1-cup line printed on the measuring cup and then pour the milk into the mixing bowl. To get 2 eggs, you count out 2 eggs, crack them open, and add them to the mixing bowl.
The measurements for flour and milk in this recipe are approximate. A teaspoon too much or too little won’t affect the outcome. But the eggs are precisely counted: exactly 2. Not 3, not 1, not 11/2, but 2. You can’t have a teaspoon too many or too few eggs. There will be exactly 2 eggs, because you count them.So which is more accurate — analog or digital? In one sense, digital circuits are more accurate because they count with complete precision.
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You can precisely count the number of jelly beans in a jar, for example.But if you weigh the jar by putting it on an analog scale, your reading may be a bit imprecise because you can’t always judge the exact position of the needle. Say that the needle on the scale is about halfway between 4 pounds and 5 pounds. Does the jar weigh 4.5 pounds or 4.6 pounds? You can’t tell for sure, so you settle for approximately 4.5 pounds.On the other hand, digital circuits are inherently limited in their precision because they must count in fixed units.
Most digital thermometers, for example, have only one digit to the right of the decimal point. Thus, they can indicate a temperature of 98.6 or 98.7 but can’t indicate 98.65.Here are a few other thoughts to ponder concerning the differences between digital and analog systems.Saying that a system is digital isn’t the same as saying that it’s binary. Binary is a particular type of digital system in which the counting is all done with the binary number system. Nearly all digital systems are also binary systems, but the two words aren’t interchangeable.Many systems are a combination of binary and analog systems. In a system that combines binary and analog values, special circuitry is required to convert from analog to digital, or vice versa.
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An input voltage (analog) might be converted to a sequence of pulses, one for each volt; then the pulses can be counted to determine the voltage.