An organization looking to e-Learning as a means of saving time and money while providing effective training to its distributed staff is faced with a choice on whether to purchase training material or develop its own training content. If the subject matter experts within the organization wish to develop their own course curricula, perhaps because no suitable content exists in the market or because they prefer to develop organization specific learning content, iAuthor™ is a tool that enables them to do so using familiar technologies, while spending minimal time and effort.

iAuthor provides content creators with a familiar word-processor like interface, hiding the complexities of creating standards compliant course content within the covers. The created content is typically HTML based, with the facility of incorporating multimedia elements for a richer learning experience.

The iAuthor™ tool also incorporates an exam builder, which can be used to develop assessments and reinforcement exercises, feedback forms and surveys - essentially any mechanism for capturing and analyzing user feedback. This is a logical extension to the course creation mechanism, whereby the effectiveness of a course can be measured using the various techniques listed.

An additional, optional module allows the creation of e-simulations to be used in specific cases where learning is provided by replicating a single aspect of the learners work environment. A simulation can be used to improve and assess a learner’s skill and competency by providing guidance and feedback based on his or her actions and reactions to a given situation.

Together, the modules of the iAuthor™ product provide a comprehensive content creation environment that allows the people with subject matter expertise to become content creators with a minimal learning curve, while providing the guarantee that any content created by them is standards compliant, and therefore platform independent and future proof!