Xyleme Inc., will be presenting Pastiche™, its new tool for developing interactive learning iPad applications, at The eLearning Guild’s mLearnCon 2011 annual conference in San Jose on June 21st and 22nd.
Pastiche™ is powered by a single-source development platform, and it allows organizations to leverage existing textbook, eLearning, assessment and performance support materials to rapidly create and deploy iPad applications. With Pastiche™, organizations can now offer a complete blended learning environment on a single tablet.
The iPad has created a transitional moment for Learning and Development as users demand full control over how they view, navigate and interact with training content. Training organizations have grappled with how to get their content onto the iPad and how to transform that content into an engaging and interactive experience for learners. Xyleme’s Pastiche™ was designed to meet this demand for the delivery of interactive learning materials to iPad.
Powered by a single-source platform
Pastiche™ is powered by the Xyleme LCMS, a single-source development platform that enables organizations to create Pastiche™ applications, which learners can then download and use on the iPad. This platform allows organizations to import existing resources or create new content, transform those materials into granular, reusable learning objects in XML format. The nature of the XML standard allows for effortless content reusability across any training output including print, Web, performance support, and Pastiche™ iPad applications.
The beauty of single-source is that there is no need to import/export or reformat content. Single-source allows the transformation of existing course materials into interactive and engaging iPad content with minimal resources. Content can then be published through many different channels and, because the Pastiche™ iPad source content is XML and its output HTML5, content is automatically future-proofed for tomorrow’s technologies and devices.
With Pastiche™, learners navigate their own educational experience
Pastiche™ allows learners to pivot in any desired way through course content for personalized learning. Designers can present content in any of the following ways:
• READ ME: A powerful eBook reader that allows learners to highlight, bookmark and annotate content for later reference.
• SHOW ME: A player for audio, video and interactive media where learners watch, interact and explore training content.
• QUIZ ME: An assessment engine where learners can test their knowledge. It provides support with feedback, hints and advice. The designer can configure Pastiche™ to report the results back to an LMS.
• HELP ME: Performance support to pinpoint and deliver relevant pieces of information to your learners when they need it and wherever they are.
Pastiche™ is the industry’s first application that allows organizations to offer a complete blended learning environment on a single tablet, quickly and cost-effectively. Pastiche™ apps are already iTunes approved to ensure rapid availability in the App Store™ — generally iPad apps can be deployed in as little as 60 to 90 days.
See Xyleme’s Pastiche™ at mLearnCon 2011
You can visit Xyleme in booth 215, or attend an open demo on Pastiche™ at 5.15-5.45pm on Tuesday June 21st. Also on Tuesday June 21st at 2.30pm, you can catch session 307 in which Xyleme’s VP of Marketing, Dawn Poulos, and Vice President & CLO, Jeff Katzman, talk about the iPad and Tablet Computing.
Get Pastiche™ Special Offer
For a limited time, new Xyleme customers can take advantage of Xyleme’s “Get Pastiche™” package which offers a full end-to-end solution for creating, customizing and deploying iPad applications. Visit www.xyleme.com/get-pastiche for details.
About Xyleme
Xyleme, Inc. is the leader in standards-based learning content management solutions that enable single-source publishing of training content. Xyleme is 100% XML-based to create massive efficiencies through modularity and reuse. With Xyleme, organizations improve collaboration in content development, reduce time-to-market for customized training and minimize the cost of supporting blended learning. Visit www.xyleme.com
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