- Paperback: 488 pages
- Publisher: Macromedia Press; 1 edition (22 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201795361
- ISBN-13: 978-0201795363
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 2.7 x 25.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,101,998 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With International Data Corp. projecting e-learning to be an $11.5 billion industry by 2003, the demand for interactive multimedia learning applications is on the rise. And Macromedia's Studio MX design tools--including Flash MX, Dreamweaver MX, and ColdFusion MX--provide the ideal solution. But figuring out how to combine these products to create the perfect active-learning applications for your purposes can be tricky--which is why you need Macromedia MX eLearning: Advanced Training from the Source.
Using project-based lessons, e-learning specialist and veteran author Jeffrey Bardzell takes you through the paces of these solutions, demonstrating how you can use them to create e-learning applications for both academic and corporate environments. Moving at your own pace, you'll learn by doing through the tutorials and hands-on instructions that have become the hallmark of this popular series. By the time you reach the end of this volume, you will have built four e-learning projects: one in Dreamweaver, two in Flash, and one that uses ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, and Flash to create a front-end for a complete ColdFusion-driven Web application. In the process, you'll learn how to create drag-and-drop interactivity, fill-in-the-blank dynamic text, hotspots, and a host of other useful e-learning features, including how to track scores and provide on-the-fly user feedback by connecting to a database through ColdFusion. Whether you're a corporate or government trainer or an educator grappling with the challenges of distance learning, you'll find what you need to provide the training your people require in Macromedia MX eLearning: Advanced Training from the Source.
About the Author
Jeffrey Bardzell is the cofounder of allecto.net, an e-Learning consulting and multimedia instruction development company in Bloomington Indiana, and a founding partner of Flash-Guru, a comprehensive Flash resource site. He develops Web-based learning applications at Indiana University, where he is also a PH. D. candidate in Comparative Literature. Jeffrey's other publications include several Flash courses and tutorials, which can be found at Flash-Guru.com.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Professor Says, "A+"
31 Aug 2003
Format:Paperback
I'm an assoc. prof. of New Testament currently working to produce an interactive web workbook for teaching/learning skills for New Testament interpretation. I want to give students practice developing close reading skills rather than ask them simply to drill content. For a couple of years, I have had a dream for such a site, and I felt sure it was buildable, but didn't know how. I care enough about how the interactions work and the relationship of content to design that I wanted to design the interactions myself if possible. Yet I didn't know anything but a little Dreamweaver and its CourseBuilder extension.
Working my way through a copy of Macromedia MX eLearning is changing all that. Wow! The book teaches how to develop interactions in Dreamweaver and Flash as well as offering several chapters on putting ColdFusion to work in eLearning. Each chapter includes a fine combination of hands-on work and explanation for why we are being asked to do what we're doing, especially at those places where some task is counter-intuitive. The book is also free of mistakes, typos and muddled language, a welcome plus when so many computer books seem to have been rushed to press without having been edited or proofed.
Bardzell's book is giving me two things: (1) hands on work with the software that introduces and reinforces learning without devolving into busywork and (2) a model for developing materials (like the book itself) that teach effectively from a distance. A+
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Excellent explained and a broad scope of topics
18 Oct 2002
Format:Paperback
This book gives you a broad scope of the to be used topics when creating elearning sites. You will get a quick tutorial of the most important Macromedia features to get the process done. In a clear way building up from using templates, attaching stylesheets, showing and hiding layers with Dreamweaver and using Flash for simulation and user-interactivity the book introduces the interaction with databases by using Coldfusion.
I thought Coldfusion was rather difficult to learn, because the tips of the week by Macromedia were a little to quick for me. But Jeffrey Bardzell proved it is easy. In a straight-forward way you are taken by the hand to take all the basic steps for building a data-driven website.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
An exceptional look at eLearning applications
1 Oct 2002
Format:Paperback
The field of electronic learning applications may seem an esoteric one, but the fact is more and more companies and schools are turning to the Web for delivery of instruction. Until now, learning how to build interactive learning modules was a chore that many people labored through alone, pulling bits and pieces from here and there until they were finally able to cobble something together.
Macromedia and Jeffrey Bardzell have changed that paradigm. Macromedia with its fabulous suite of web-authoring tools, and Mr. Bardzell with his outstanding examination of how those tools can be employed. This book is thoroughly documented and yet suprisingly easy to read. The chapters and their lessons have a natural flow to them that makes the process of building dynamic learning modules exceptionally easy to follow.
If you are an instuctor or an instructiona designer, or someone who wants to deliver any kind of dynamic content on the Web in the field of electronic learning then this book is a must-have. Clear, thorough, and very logically stuctured, you'll learn not only the necessary background information on each type of technology, but also see numerous practical examples of how it is done.
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