A tool for soft-skills training and scenario-based training
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Stay connected: Various tools of Adobe will from now on be put to best use on campuses.
In the age of Internet collaboration, black boards are dinosaurs. Adode Education, the education subsidiary of the software giant, is planning to do for universities what Orkut and YouTube did for millions of teens across the globe.
“Technology is a natural part of campus life,” pointed out John Treloar, Education Director, Asia-Pacific region, Adobe Systems. “The better connected we are, the more we can engage with ideas and information.”
Mr. Treloar was in Chennai recently to present to leading engineering colleges Adobe’s solutions for connecting university students.
Adobe’s e-learning solutions for colleges and universities are enterprise solutions that seamlessly blend into the college administration.
Students connected through the solutions would be able to attend online classes, watch slideshows with voice-over, exchange notes and pretty much all things that college students do for fun in an online forum like Orkut.
Mr. Treloar said such a collaborative solution was a natural step for Adobe.
“PDF format files (that can be created using Acrobat) constitute a major chunk of the documentation, while Flash animation constitutes a major chunk of the e-learning packages on the Web.
Our e-learning packages would combine both these elements.”
Adobe Connect is a collaborative tool through which participating students can meet in an online classroom. For example, this can be used to ‘webcast’ a lecture for a class of students.
Adobe Captivate is a tool for soft-skill training and a scenario-based training.
Adobe Presenter can be used to convert PowerPoint presentations — that were hitherto used mainly by businessmen — into Flash animations that can run on Flash-enabled web browsers.
KARTHIK SUBRAMANIAN
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