By now, most eLearning providers have already embraced a mobile strategy to produce video content that will stream seamlessly across mobile devices. But when it comes to converting existing materials to achieve the same results, they seem to struggle because that same workflow will involve starting from scratch, which is neither advantageous nor cost-effective. Since the technologies are becoming obsolete, and not the content, a more adequate solution is needed.

In this session, you will learn how to easily automate and migrate flash videos to another format that will reach your mobile audience. You will find out how Concordia University converted 50 non-mobile-friendly courses, consisting of 1,153 FLV videos, in a matter of days without the help of videographers and integrators. The success of this migration resides in the chosen tools and technologies, which will be showcased. From the proof of concept to the full deployment, all the phases will be presented so that sample codes, compression presets, server settings, and more can be shared during that hour.

In this session, you will learn:

• An efficient workflow for converting FLV to MP4
• About tools and technologies like FFmpeg and XML manifest
• The optimal presets for video conversion based on bandwidth
• How to choose the right video player(s)
• About standards and protocols for mobile video delivery

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, developers, and project managers.

Ensuring that content from suppliers and developers will work on mobile in your environment is tough. Things get tougher with multi-platform desktop and mobile and bring-your-own-device environments. How can one readily test, verify, debug, or demonstrate mobile eLearning in an LMS?

In this session, you will discover how to do more testing and validation on the desktop. You will learn to use built-in capabilities of your preferred browser (and a second browser) along with simple plugins. Finally, you will leave the session with simple tricks and tools to share iPad or Android screens over WebEx or make video captures.

In this session, you will learn:

• To fake out your content and learning management systems to test mobile on your laptop or desktop
• About the benefits of a second browser and plugins for testing
• About built-in features of your own browser for more convenient testing
• How live screens can be shared and captured from mobile devices

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers and project managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Responsive design tools in browsers, UserAgent plugins, QuickTime app on Mac OS X, Apple AirPlay, Android Screencasting, Microsoft Mirrorcast, and wireless display adapters for Microsoft and Android devices.

Technology Required:
A laptop (Mac/Win/Chrome)—install Firefox or Chrome; optionally, get a trial copy of the Reflector application; and a mobile device (iPad/iPhone/Android)—bring your USB sync cord.

The convergence of mobile delivery, micro-learning, and new authoring tools provides great opportunities to innovate where limited time and budget are available. Much mobile-delivered micro-learning focuses on spaced repetition and memorization. Micro-sims go beyond knowledge and comprehension and require learners to synthesize and apply concepts in realistic contexts.

In this session you will learn a practical challenge/choices/consequences micro-sims model that succinctly and powerfully provides opportunities for risk-free practice in contexts that are closer to the point of performance for learners. With (almost) ubiquitous Wi-Fi, micro-sims can incorporate video segments on mobile devices, further enhancing their impact. You will learn the theory and measured impact behind micro-sims, viewing real-world examples of micro-sims in different industry situations. You will learn just how easy it is to design and deliver this learning format on mobile devices.

In this session, you will learn:

• The measurable benefits of the micro-simulation approach
• The key design principles behind effective micro-sim creation
• How to apply different authoring tool and delivery mechanisms to your own mobile production processes
• When to use micro-sims as part of a broader program delivery

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, developers, project managers, managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Tablets and smartphones that use HTML5. Different authoring platforms will be compared.

Video is a great way to get the user’s attention and animate your content to audio, but it has a tendency to be static, not allowing the user to interact with the content on the screen.

In this session, you will learn how to go beyond just static video and allow your users to interact with your videos. During the session, you will take ordinary video and add interactive elements, such as clickable areas on the video that, when clicked on, could allow the user to explore concepts in more depth. You will also learn how to branch out to different videos depending on the user’s choice. Finally, you will see how to publish this interaction to be viewable on all mobile and desktop devices.

In this session, you will learn:

• Adobe Edge Animate basics
• How to import video into Edge Animate
• How to control your video with different triggers
• How to branch to other videos depending on user choice
• How to create interactive buttons over the video
• How to publish your interaction to be viewed on mobile and desktop devices

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Edge Animate.

Technology Required:
Adobe Edge Animate.

Online video-based instruction can be just as ineffective as traditional face-to-face lectures when learners are passive recipients of information. The “testing effect” describes the observation that the process of remembering concepts or facts increases long-term retention of those concepts or facts. The creation of question-embedded videos offers a practical way to increase user engagement and increase long-term retention.

In this session, you will learn how to not only embed questions into your instructional videos but also monitor the effects on learner engagement and retention. Case examples from the University of California–Davis School of Medicine will demonstrate both the theory and process of using question-embedded videos to teach. There will be particular emphasis on helping learners identify how they might use this approach in their teaching.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the evidence for test-enhanced learning
• About the workflow to create question-embedded videos
• How to download and install the necessary tools to begin creating your own question-embedded videos
• How to monitor learner engagement and retention using video analytics
• How to identify the next steps for using this information in your own teaching

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, developers, and project managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
HapYak (question-embedded videos), Wistia (video hosting), WordPress (learning management system), and Chrome and Safari (web browsers).

Mobile learning is mostly done alone. Think of your last few mobile learning excursions. Were they net positive experiences where you learned along with others? Hopefully you weren’t alone. Alone, it’s you and the problem. Being able to bounce ideas off others opens up more perspectives and ways of knowing.

In this session, you’ll use design thinking to make mobile learning a more social experience. Then, with the people and apps in the room, you’ll make and test a prototype solution (or two). You will learn about a social learning efficacy assessment to aid in understanding its impacts. Finally, you’ll put your attention on the best ways to market and promote a mobile learning solution in your organization.

In this session, you will learn:

• Ways to make mobile learning social
• About a prototype for a mobile social learning experience
• How to design a mobile social learning efficacy assessment
• How to ideate ways to market a mobile social learning solution in your organization

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Computing devices (PC, Mac, tablet, and phone), Gmail/YouTube, Twitter, and apps (we’ll make it work with what’s in the room).

Technology Required:
A computing device.

Adobe Captivate is a widely used authoring tool for eLearning courseware and mobile learning experiences. Now Adobe offers developers the opportunity to create responsive animations to their mobile learning projects.

In this session, you will learn how to make a responsive project with the new Adobe Animate CC. You will learn specifically how to create the animations, output the responsive elements, and adjust them for different mobile views in Captivate. Finally, you will learn the specific steps involved in creating responsive content, as well as best practices for adding HTML5 content and responsive design for mobile devices.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to create animations with the new Adobe Animate CC application
• How to use Animate and Captivate together in a mobile workflow
• How to design for a variety of mobile devices
• How to make basic elements for animation using Adobe Illustrator

Audience:
Intermediate and advanced designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Captivate, Adobe Animate CC (formerly Flash), and Adobe Illustrator.

Today, PS enthusiasts in small organizations, or in smaller business units of larger organizations, often lack access to the funds and support needed to build an effective PS solution. Today’s commercially available PS authoring applications, and their corresponding methodologies, exceed their reach. They need a minimalist process, structure, and model for building powerful PS solutions despite their budgeting and staffing constraints: a PSS for the rest of us.

This session will demonstrate how to make it possible, practical, and relatively simple for anyone to create an effective PS solution, regardless of budgeting and staff constraints. In this session, you will learn the core skills: how to anchor the content within the context of the user’s job and workflow; how to create content that is “actionable,” i.e., capable of being immediately applied; how to create all of the core content with tools everyone already has and has mastered; how to simplify the gathering and updating of content from those who have it; and how to make the solution available on any device.

In this session, you will learn:

• To capture responsibilities, workflows, and tasks and organize support content within that context
• To streamline the gathering of support content from your SMEs
• To guide your SMEs in creating actionable, rather than static, knowledge
• To create an HTML structure for delivering the support content using only MS Word and Word templates
• To set up a process for sustaining the content and the competent performance it supports

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, developers, project managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Microsoft Word.

Technology Required:
A laptop with MS Word.

Today’s learners demand rich multimedia, and it’s becoming easier to deliver it to them. The challenge facing trainers is to have the skills to produce and edit video and to do so on a training budget, not a Hollywood budget.

Fortunately, the YouTube era has opened up new and exciting models for low-budget multimedia. This session will review stylistic tips and tricks used by the most popular YouTubers, online instructors, and social video participants for creating authentic, engaging, ultra-low-budget productions designed to match the media being consumed by learners on a daily basis in their YouTubing, Redditing, Pinteresting, and Facebooking.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the role of authenticity in learning media
• How today’s most popular YouTube and social video producers engage viewers with authenticity, not production value
• Tips and tricks used by producers everywhere to make their production processes manageable for ultra-low-budget productions
• From several “best and worst” online videos used for training

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Streaming services, video production equipment (cameras, microphones, lighting), smartphones, and smartphone apps.

Working with developers to create whiteboard explainer videos can be risky, expensive, and time consuming. It is also challenging to find developers who truly understand your message and how best to present it visually to your specific audience.

In this hands-on session, you will address this problem by learning how to utilize new software to create your own whiteboard explainer videos. You will learn how to create or import drawings into Adobe Illustrator and prepare them for the VideoScribe software. The session will cover workflow and best practices for creating explainer videos using VideoScribe, as well as importing audio and locating appropriate artwork. Many people are creating their own whiteboard videos today, and you can, too.

In this session, you will learn:

• The workflow of creating your own custom whiteboard explainer videos
• Best practices when it comes to creating your own custom whiteboard explainer videos
• How to prepare images that are compatible with the VideoScribe software
• How to match the scribe to the audio that you have imported
• How to locate or find drawings for whiteboard videos
• How to publish your whiteboard videos once completed

Audience:
Intermediate and advanced designers, developers, and project managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Illustrator, VideoScribe, and Audacity.

Technology Required:
VideoScribe and Adobe Illustrator.

Screencasts can be a powerful tool for eLearning developers. Well-produced screencasts can be great for software simulation, process demonstration, or providing background and context within an eLearning course. Screencasts are relatively easy and cheap to produce. However, poorly produced screencasts can be, at best, boring—and, at worst, injurious to your learning goals. While many take the idea of screencasts for granted, there are a number of techniques that can improve screencast quality and engage learners more deeply and for longer periods of time.

In this session, you will learn 10 powerful tips that will greatly improve the quality of your screencasts. Those who are new to screencasts will learn about the best tools and workflows. For those who are experienced at producing screencasts, this session will examine common problems with screencast production and demonstrate easily implementable suggestions for improvement.

In this session, you will learn:

• To identify the current hardware and software tools used for screencasts
• Which tools are best for producing quality screencasts
• To identify common screencast problems that may impede learning
• Production techniques that greatly improve screencast engagement
• Voice techniques that increase overall quality of screencasts and aid in content retention

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Camtasia, Adobe Captivate, audio recording equipment, and Adobe Audition.

Augmented reality (AR) pervades everyday life as well as teaching and training practice. It is a powerful learning tool, allowing the learner to gain hands-on practice in a real-world context by imposing useful information over objects and situations. With growing popularity, AR gets better and more user-friendly tools. This allows educators to move the learning of practical skills outside the walls of the classroom.

In this hands-on session, you will explore a number of ideas and use cases for AR applications in your learning and training practice, such as manuals, guides, role-plays, interactive stories, scavenger hunts, and other activities. You will learn how to start, configure, and deploy an AR project using ARIS, an open-source, easy-to-use platform for creating and playing augmented reality experiences on iOS devices. You will explore features offered by ARIS such as QR codes, GPS locations, maps, and codes. This session will focus on the iOS; however, examples of AR solutions for other platforms will be mentioned as well.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to use AR in the classroom and training practice
• What ARIS is and what features it provides
• How to build learning activities with ARIS
• How to access the activities from the mobile app
• About the rationale for using AR applications in learning and training
• About available AR solutions for other mobile platforms

Audience:
Novice designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
ARIS Editor and iOS devices.

Technology Required:
Web browser and ARIS mobile app.

Many organizations have taken the desktop eLearning paradigm and simply applied it to mobile technologies, but that does not take advantage of the uniqueness of the mobile platform. Furthermore, traditional eLearning templates do not always translate well in a mobile environment.

Storyline 2 is a very popular development tool that is quickly growing in use among traditional training organizations that are starting to develop mobile solutions for their customer base. In this session, you will explore how to build your own landscape- or portrait-style templates that work best on mobile devices. You will be able to design your own user interface to maximize the mobile real estate, and you will create slide masters, backgrounds, and custom buttons and icons for mobile use.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to change or remove the default player features in Storyline
• How to design a user interface that maximizes mobile real estate
• How to create slide masters and backgrounds that support mobile delivery
• How to design custom buttons and icons for mobile use

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Storyline 2.

Technology Required:
Laptop (PC or Mac running Windows), Storyline 2 (installed and operating), and a USB port for transferring assets.

Business moves fast. Does your learning team struggle to keep up sometimes? Are you being left out of the loop when updates are made to business tools and processes? Are you leveraging all available tools to keep the knowledge gap as small as possible? Time Warner Cable has a great relationship with its business partners, but these were all questions that it couldn’t answer the way it wanted to.

In this session, learn how a learning team of 18 supports 55,000 employees who change processes and tools continually. When people have questions outside of work, they turn to Google and YouTube; you can leverage the same technology to provide content to them while they are at work. In this session, you will learn a video framework and process to allow business process and tool subject matter experts (SMEs) to create and house their own training videos.

In this session, you will learn:

• Different processes to create video
• How to support SMEs so they can create video content
• How to create a toolkit for your learning team
• How to blend delivery methods (video and ILT/VILT)
• How video killed the paper-based training star

Audience:
Novice designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
KZO (a video platform), Captivate, and Articulate Storyline.

You have been hearing about the xAPI for years. You know what it does and the benefits it brings, but how do you use it? Where do you start? Where can you see samples? What kind of data can you send over? In this working session, you won’t just hear about the xAPI—you’ll start learning how to use it with any of your HTML5 files.

In this session, you will learn the nuts and bolts of the xAPI. You will learn how to take a basic HTML file and send over different xAPI statements to a sample LRS (learning record store) from any location. You will walk away with a working knowledge of how to start using the xAPI to track much more data than you ever could in SCORM without all your content having to be in an LMS.

In this session, you will learn:

• What the xAPI is
• How you can use the xAPI in any HTML file
• How to send over xAPI statements to any LRS
• How to capture user information
• About other data you can track in the xAPI

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, and managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
The xAPI, HTML basics, and JavaScript basics.

Technology Required:
HTML text editor, such as Sublime Text.

What’s the best camera for a shoot? The definitive answer is, the one you have with you.?The ubiquity of the mobile camera means that when you’re in the presence of great instructional content, it can become video in seconds, multiplying the opportunities for eLearning developers to capture content. In addition, viewers are developing a special respect for authentic-looking video—footage that looks raw, real, and genuine. Many training videographers have moved to iPhones as their main production equipment, even on high-production-value shoots. eLearning developers are poised to profit from this stylistic convention.

In this session, participants will learn important strategies for capturing great content on their cellphones and, more importantly, will come away empowered to hit that record button anytime and anywhere when seeking new eLearning content. We’ll discuss the physical challenges of cell phone cameras and microphones; solutions to those challenges; conducting interviews through mobile phone recording; and leveraging the authentic look of mobile video to engage learners.  

In this session, you will learn:

• How to identify features of authentic-looking video content
• How to understand the technical challenges of the camera and microphone of your camera
• How to compensate for the mobile phone’s recording equipment
• How to conduct informal, genuine interviews with experts via cell phone recording
• The aspects of the image and sound which can be controlled with special camera apps

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile devices.

Technology Required:
A smartphone that can shoot video.

Concise visual metaphors facilitate the best learning. Think back to high school, college, or a meeting where you experienced that “aha” moment while someone was drawing on a whiteboard. How can you reproduce this learning experience online with a small budget and without an art degree? Whiteboard-style recordings can be just as effective as the fancy Flash or HTML5 videos you might produce with more expensive software.

In this session, you will learn about the complete life cycle of a virtual whiteboard video, from designing, recording, and narrating to editing and publishing. If you’re simply trying to teach your learners about an important concept or process in five or 10 minutes, then a virtual whiteboard approach offers a great option. These days, a range of drawing and production tools are available for tablets, and most are inexpensive and have a minimal learning curve. You’ll quickly see that you don’t need to be an artist; you just require some creativity, patience, and imagination.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to design and storyboard a whiteboard video
• About different live drawing techniques
• How to use a tablet to record your drawing
• How to combine, speed up, and narrate videos
• How to include transitions, text, and other special effects

Audience:
Novice designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
iOS and Android tablets, DoodleCast Pro, Drawing Box, Draw and Show, Apple iMovie, and Windows Movie Maker.

Photoshop is arguably the most widely used tool for creating images in learning circles. However, if the images aren’t optimized, they can delay the delivery of the content to a mobile device. Photoshop also has a number of new features built in, and these features can assist in improving images from good to excellent.

In this session, you will learn how to “punch up” the brilliance of images taken with a digital camera or cell phone. You will also learn how to fix flaws often found in images, such as straightening a tilted image. Finally, you will find out how to create 3-D images within Photoshop so as not to rely on third-party tools.

In this session, you will learn:

• To adjust the brilliance of a digital picture
• To create a panorama
• To optimize an image for mobile delivery
• To create 3-D text in a flat image
• To create a 3-D globe

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Photoshop.

Technology Required:
Photoshop, preferably less than a year old.

Free tools like Flurry Analytics and the xAPI can reveal important characteristics about how individuals learn while on the job, and they can help managers and course developers make design and technology decisions to best suit the needs of their end users. With thoughtful analytics implementation, derived from performance improvement plans and learning goals, managers can better understand what aspects of their course were successful and understand early where the learning gaps appear.

In this session, you will learn how Tech 2000 and Comstor used a mix of Flurry Analytics and the xAPI to make more informed instructional design and technology decisions based on mobile app usage in the field and learner behavior in their LMS. You will learn how the team set up its Lumious instance, the importance of creating a measurement plan, how to use personas to help segment behavior data, how to set up tracking for specific behavioral events, and how to use all this data to engage learners in their own performance improvement.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to use the xAPI and Flurry Analytics to promote mobile learner course engagement
• How users navigate your online course and enablement material, where they drop off, and how to re-engage them
• How to track specific course events like video completions or clicks on interactive graphics
• How to design xAPI recipes to segment behavior data for analysis
• How to create a measurement plan that maps back to course learning objectives
• How to better understand the demographics and geographic locations of your learners

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, developers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Flurry Analytics, the xAPI, and Totara LMS.

Technology Required:
Internet access and a web browser.

With the release of the “granite” version of cmi5, the next generation of SCORM has finally arrived. To take advantage of cmi5, you will need a new tool set in your development kit. First, you need to know how to send xAPI statements that conform to the cmi5 specification. Then you need to know how to read and write to the xAPI State and Agent services following the cmi5 rules.

In this session, you will learn how to develop cmi5-compatible content without waiting for the “rapid development” authoring tools to catch up. You will see an example cmi5 assignable unit, including free source code that you can use as the basis of your projects. You will learn the difference between “cmi5 defined”? statements and “cmi5 allowed” statements, showing examples of when each type of statement should be used. You will also learn which properties in the xAPI State document contain rules that must be followed by your cmi5 content.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to send cmi5 statements using JavaScript
• The difference between “cmi5 allowed” and “cmi5 defined” statements
• How the xAPI State document provides rules your content must follow
• About free source code that you can use in your cmi5 projects

Audience:
Advanced developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
HTML, JavaScript, the xAPI, and cmi5.

For trainers or educators who need to stay relevant and maintain their creative edge, a fundamental knowledge of basic video production and editing is essential. Creating effective, professional-quality video training for delivery on multiple devices, including smartphones and tablets, presents a variety of design challenges that require specialized planning with attention to image composition, duration, script writing, recording methods, and editing techniques.

In this session, you’ll learn the basics of designing video training from concept to delivery. The session will cover how to choose and use the right audio and video hardware and editing software. It will also cover simple tips and techniques for planning, writing, composing, shooting, lighting, and using green screens for studio and field production to produce professional results on limited budgets, and how your video can be repurposed for web and broadcast delivery. This session may also fill in gaps you have when it comes to creating effective video specifically for training.

In this session, you will learn:

•  How to optimize video productions for multiple device delivery
•  How to create a professional-quality product with limited resources
•  Tips on writing specifically for video training
•  Tips on basic production techniques
•  Tips on single-camera techniques and video effects

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Consumer- and professional-level camcorders, microphones, tripods, editing software, green screens, lights, and delivery media; this includes Adobe Premier Pro, Sony NX70 Camcorder, and iPhone.

Capturing intellectual property has become imperative as more employees job hop or retire, taking the company “secret sauce” with them. L&D pros need to adopt efficiencies for SME video interviews in order to leverage their wisdom for state-of-the-art knowledge transfer.

In this session, you will learn new techniques for interviewing SMEs that leverage their words of wisdom for interactive simulations, bringing their war stories to life for unforgettable learning. You will also learn how to record video interviews with anyone in the world from your desktop. Takeaways include tips and tricks for using free, easy recording tools and a new time-saving video-indexing technology.

In this session, you will learn:

• Interview techniques informed by classic drama to increase the potency of teaching moments within simulations
• How to quickly index content for on-demand learning
• The beauty, value, and versatility of granular reusable learning objects

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Skype, Evaer, and Panopto.

Mobile learning is rapidly becoming a must-have for organizations big and small. For most designers, getting started is a huge hurdle they have yet to overcome. Considering all the new technology, platforms, authoring tools, and skills required to make it all work can paralyze even the best learning pros.

In this session, you’ll learn how quick and easy it can be to build mobile learning with skills and tools that you already have. If you have PowerPoint (yes, PowerPoint), you have everything you need to create visually appealing, interactive, and dynamic mobile learning solutions. Additionally, you will learn how to create mobile-friendly videos and interactive eBooks.

In this session, you will learn:

• About several mobile-friendly learning content types that can be easily authored from PowerPoint
• How to quickly and easily create mobile-friendly videos
• How to create interactive eBooks
• About easy-to-use templates to jump-start your mobile learning projects

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, and project managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
PowerPoint, portable document format (PDF), eBooks (EPUB), and mobile devices (smartphone, tablets, etc.).

Technology Required:
PowerPoint 2013 and Wi-Fi capability.

With version 16, Lectora is now fully ready for you to create responsive design lessons—those that will work equally well on desktops, tablets, and smartphones.

In this session, you will learn step by step how to create a lesson in Lectora. You will learn about the specific features that will let you be productive and proud of the lessons you create. You will explore its powerful functionality, such as lesson viewing, object and text scaling, overriding, and the device rotation trigger. Lectora 16 offers the best of all worlds for users, from the novice developer to the more advanced. See just what you can do in your responsive design projects!

In this session, you will learn:

• To build up to five different views of your lesson, all in one lesson file
• To apply automatic object and text scaling
• To override default actions and reset the overrides
• About Lectora’s new device rotation trigger and its new CurrentView variable to help the learner

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Trivantis Lectora 16.

Technology Required:
Trivantis Lectora 16.

Incorporating video in a responsive performance support project can be daunting. Video done for vertical delivery comes with specific dos and don’ts. This session shows how to use vertical video, the new Adobe Animate CC, and Adobe Captivate to make cost-effective, rapid mobile performance support modules.

In this session, you will learn best practices for video and the development of vertical video. You will see how Adobe Animate CC and Adobe Captivate work together to showcase video content in a mobile performance support module. For those new to video, this will show a workflow that they can use to expand their existing skill set. For those with video experience, this will show how Animate and Captivate work together with video to create a useful performance support element.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to use Adobe Animate to make animated content
• The basics of working with MP4 video in Captivate
• How to connect Animate content to a Captivate project
• About the workflow of a video-based performance support project
• Best practices for creating on-demand video learning content

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, and project managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Captivate and the new Adobe Animate CC.

Creating a mobile app for training can be hard. Tracking user progress and completion in your mobile app? Harder. There is a lot to consider when looking to create and leverage mobile applications for training purposes, but the tools and techniques are available.

In this session, you will learn how to use common (and free) HTML5 development tools, frameworks, and libraries to create a mobile training app. You will examine several HTML5 development tools, including their advantages and disadvantages, and learn how to convert your HTML5 course into a mobile application. Finally, you will learn how to track learner progress by adding xAPI support to your mobile app.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to leverage free HTML5 resources
• How to convert your HTML5 course into a mobile app
• How to add xAPI support to your mobile app
• How to develop and test your mobile app
• About some recommended development tools for HTML5

Audience:
Intermediate and advanced developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
JavaScript, HTML5, the xAPI, PhoneGap, and mobile apps.

People want and need video in eLearning for its value in demonstrations, emotional impact, and ability to engage auditory and visual learners. But there are barriers to video production: casting actors, finding appropriate settings and locations, purchasing quality video equipment, and finding and training skilled personnel. Animated video is one path around these barriers.

In this session, you will learn to recognize when animated video can be more appropriate than traditional live-action video. You will learn how animated video has advantages for meeting some instructional goals and how it can circumvent many barriers created by limited resources and time. Finally, you will gather a bag of tricks for audio capture and processing, tips for increasing the learning potential of your animations, and pointers for creating mobile versions of animated videos.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the business case for using animated video
• About the pedagogical case for using animated video
• How to capture quality audio on a budget
• Tips for audio post-production
• How to increase engagement and learning from animated video
• About considerations for using animated video on mobile platforms

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, developers, and project managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
GoAnimate, HTML5 video, Adobe Audition, Audacity, and microphones.

Creating interactions and animations in HTML5 is very complex. It requires an in-depth knowledge of JavaScript. There are other tools for creating HTML5 interactions that are fairly easy to use; however, you often lose the flexibility that you have when writing code.

In this session, you will learn about Adobe’s new application called Animate. You will see how this tool gives designers and developers the ability to quickly create HTML5 animations and interactions. The new art tools also make drawing much more robust, so even people with limited design skills can draw amazing backgrounds and scenes. This session will focus on having you create some simple animations and interactions, and it will end by showing you how to render the project files into a variety of different formats.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to define a project
• How to insert clip art
• How to draw on the stage using a variety of brushes
• How to render the project to a video or to a mobile device
• How to render the project to an HTML5 web page

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Animate.

Technology Required:
A Mac or PC with Adobe Animate (trial version is okay).

There’s no question that video is trending upward and becoming more viable as a workplace learning and development (L&D) solution. Still, one significant barrier is focusing on the video itself—the videography and/or animation and editing that leads to the final product. Like all solutions from an L&D perspective, it still needs design. For video, that design document is a script, and it’s one of the most vital and most often ignored steps in the video production process. But how does someone with an L&D background learn to write better scripts?

In this session, you will learn the four key elements of a well-formatted script that will help you to better visualize the final video, while also exploring the specific characteristics of video and discussing why you need to take these into account when writing scripts. You will study several videos that offer insight into what engages viewers and why. You will also come to understand the elements of a well-written script and how to take optimal advantage of the video format. You will leave this session with simple, easy-to-implement tips and tricks to extend the useful lifetime of any video product.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to properly format a video script
• About characteristics of a well-written script
• How to write to take optimal advantage of the video format for mobile viewing
• How to increase engagement through conflict and contrast
• Ways to increase the lifetime of products by implementing a few simple tricks

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Smartphones, smartphone cameras (both photo and video), video cameras, and video editing software.