Seminar 12A - Using Adobe Captivate to Develop Online Scenario-Based Learning with Branching and Assessment in Flash Format

Scenario-based learning places students in a simulated real-life situation and helps them acquire the decision-making and critical-thinking skills needed to accomplish their tasks successfully. Using traditional authoring tools to develop online scenario-based learning presents a challenge due to the dynamic, branching character of online lessons. In addition, they would likely require someone with expertise in programming languages and be expensive to develop, deploy, and maintain. Fortunately, with Adobe Captivate, educators can author and deliver case-based scenarios without having web authoring skill or programming knowledge.

This seminar will provide hands-on experience with creating online scenario-based lessons with the Flash scenario simulation feature for branching and assessment. You will learn how to create branches with correct paths and incorrect paths using scenarios and timely feedback and how to easily add multimedia to scenarios and produce scenario-based lessons in Flash file format for effective web publishing.

PLEASE NOTE: Bring a Windows-based laptop with Adobe Captivate 4 (a 30-day free trial is available from Adobe) and the most recent version of Flash installed to fully participate in the hands-on exercises.