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You Tube meets Rapid E-Learning

Posted by Andrew Jackson on Jun 18,2009 @ 08:39 PM

Still on the topic of the Mohive User Group, one of the hands-on workshops focused on using video.

The challenge: could we shoot some simple video clips using a small pocket-sized video camera and incorporate this into a short piece of e-learning content in the space of an hour?

Madness, I hear you cry. Well, that's what we thought - but we did it - just!

What was remarkable for me? The realisation that the You Tube revolution is likely to have a profound impact on e-learning development in the future.

Lars Egidius Helle, (Mohive's Creative Director) pointed out that within a couple of years we'll all be carrying around mobile phones capable of recording (and editing) video.

Add to that the impact of You Tube. This has changed people's perception of what is an acceptable level of quality for a piece of video. Combine those two thoughts and you very quickly reach the conclusion that incorporating video into e-learning content is likely to stop being a big deal.

Until now, video has been the preserve of high-end production. Always expensive and time-consuming because it was left to the production professionals and actors, this was the stuff big corporates would pay expensive vendors to produce.

With an easy-to use rapid development tool like Mohive and cheap, quickly produced video (that is of an acceptable quality to end-users) you could be looking at whole new world of content  development.

Many of the imaginative and exciting things video allows you to achieve could now be within your grasp for minimal effort and greatly reduced costs. Roll those cameras! 

Topics: e-learning software, Rapid e-learning