Its maker, the digital-learning content-management business-solution provider, eXact learning solutions, believes that this will enable novice users, including subject-matter experts (SMEs), can now use the same platform, templates, and tools when collaborating with instructional designers.

Gianluca Rolandelli, eXact learning solutions’ Professional Services Manager, explained, "This is a fully blended-learning approach, allowing the input, indexing, and storing of learning content, along with enabling that content to be distributed in a variety of forms for effective learning delivery. Its XML-based technology enables cost-effective, large-scale, repeatable content-production projects – and the system can deliver learning content to any standards-based learning-management system (LMS), learning record store (LRS) and, indeed, other business systems too."

According to Valerio Torda, eXact learning solutions’ CEO, "This technology supports instantaneous, seamless, organization-wide collaboration for learning content creation, helping to maximize our clients’ investments in learning to help them achieve their business goals. And, being based on XML technology, the system supports SCORM 1.2 and 2004, IMS, and xAPI standards, allowing for single-source, multiple-output publishing scenarios."

To help explain this technology to users and potential users, especially those using PowerPoint to generate learning materials, eXact learning solutions is staging a webinar on 25 March.

Federico Dondero, of eXact learning solutions, sympathized, "Managing collaborative authoring processes can be both challenging and frustrating. It involves asking to SMEs to circulate the last reviewed PowerPoint, managing comments, and notes made by several stakeholders, taking time in copying and pasting slides and texts - or in editing the wrong content version – and then duplicating or re-creating learning materials through several courses."

Federico added that the webinar, called "From PPT ingestion to mobile delivery: moving to the future", will explain how those using the eXact learning LCMS can

• get the system to ingest PowerPoint slides automatically
• edit and repurpose these learning materials, adding interactive items
• re-use and version each individual content chunk
• distribute the content via a wide range of delivery media, including mobile devices

Anyone wanting to know the secrets of this latest technology can attend the webinar, being held on 25 March at 17.00 to 17.45 CET (16.00 – 16.45 GMT, 12.00 – 12.45 EDT and 09.00 – 09.45 PDT).