Interactive Courseware Capabilities and Experience

Interactive Courseware Development

• Create original Interactive Courseware (ICW) using innovative development approaches
• Migrate and update legacy ICW to current formats and platforms
• Screen captured recordings, demos, and simulations
• Translate user interfaces in different mediums
• On-location photo and video shoots
• Video editing and production
• Digital photography
• 2-D and 3-D animation
• Voice-over and narration
• Media file conversion and compression
• Outlines, task analyses, scripts, shot lists, flowcharts, and storyboards
• Adobe PDF documentation
• Slide presentations
• Quizzes and exams, including multiple-choice, true-false, hot-spot, hot-object, drag-drop, ordering, matching, and fill-in-the-blank questions
• Feedback forms
• Glossary

Courseware Deployment

• Computer-Based Training (CBT) and Web-Based Training (WBT)
• Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS)
• Streaming media servers
• Auto-run CD-ROM/DVD-ROM
• Navy e-learning/Integrated Learning Environment (NKO/NEL/ILE/CNET)
• Army Learning Management System (ALMS)
• Corporate intranets

Standards

• Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) SCORM 2004 conformance and metadata
• 508 compliance
• NMCI compatibility
• Standard programming languages, including HTML, JavaScript, XML, CSS, and Flash ActionScript

Proven Methods

To maintain customer involvement through each phase of development, SAIC devised several methods for customers to review and comment on our work in-progress. Our programmers have written a custom storyboard application that will import a task analysis and pictures, and generate storyboards, narration, shot lists, and other reports. The reports are posted to our web site where a customer can log in and submit comments electronically. Changes can be implemented and new reports generated virtually immediately, thereby reducing the amount of changes made during production.

SAIC uses design templates to deploy a preliminary sample version of a course to our test environment for preliminary feedback before the presentation elements and course interface are finalized. This allows the customer to experience the look-and-feel of the course, as well as some of the interactions very early on in the development process. This practice is later repeated with a draft version to ensure customer satisfaction.

The Benefits of e-Learning

• Classroom tuition, travel, parking, fuel, and vehicle maintenance costs are reduced or eliminated.
• Student residence, food, and child care costs are lowered.
• Distant learning reaches a greater number of students worldwide, 24/7, during or after working hours, thus lowering per student cost.
• Instructors are freed up for other needed classroom instruction.
• Morale is improved since students can learn on their own schedule and at their own pace at home, work, or on the road.
• The quality of the instruction is consistent.
• Web-based training enhances computer and Internet skills.
• Manuals, tests, and other training documentation are electronic, so paper costs are reduced considerably.
• Managers have immediate access to reports containing student progress and certifications.