iBooks Author - Are You the One?
Innovative learning solutions company seeks organisational learning and development specialist for an exclusive one-on-one relationship. We enjoy challenging the status quo, pushing the envelope and generally being at the cutting edge of learning design and technology. You must be excited by the prospect of new experiences and be especially into iPad. So, dear reader, are you the one?
Okay, so we are having a bit of fun here with our "personal ad" - but this blog post is seriously about us looking for someone we can do a pilot project with.
Why? Well, we got very excited last Thursday when Apple announced its new iBooks Author development tool. Granted they are not the first to market with such a concept, but as always, they have taken something that exists already and made it special.
If you watched the launch you'll know their emphasis was on creating content for schools and colleges. But look closely at what iBooks Author has to offer. You'll see that it not only provides an innovative take on digital content development, it also includes many functions found in existing e-learning authoring tools.
So we think this is about more than just interactive textbooks. To us it has the potential to be a new and interesting hybrid: a cross between mobile learning, e-learning and e-books - fully optimised for iPad, of course. And we certainly don't think it has to be restricted to schools and colleges. We can instantly see uses for this in most organisations that need to do training.
Are you similarly excited? Do you have people in your organisation in love with their iPads? Do you have a learning requirement that you think could be suitable for a new and innovative solution. If yes, we would definitely like to hear from you because we are genuinely interested in talking to an organisation that would like to experiement with this new medium.
One important caveat. To work with us on this, you'd need to be okay about going public once the development is complete. After all, there's no point in doing something new and interesting if you can't share it with the world.
We'll be wasting no time in playing with iBooks Author to see what we can do with it. Creating samples is an obvious first step. But we'd much rather work with someone who has an actual learning requirement. Someone who will get some real benefit from a pilot project.
So, are you the one we are looking for? If you'd like to talk with us in more detail and you happen to be visiting the Learning Technologies and Learning and Skills show this week, drop by and talk to us on our stand (204) on the ground floor. Otherwise, you can get in touch with us here.