Glimmer of Hope for better Work Related Training?

Walter Stiers - Academic Relations Team (BeLux) - Grava CTP available

" "Grava" is the code name for a new set of tools from the Microsoft Education Products Group that is designed to allow the education community to create and assemble interactive materials that will increase discovery and allow learners to go at their own pace and learning style...

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The "Grava" tools that are scheduled for release later in 2007:

• "Grava" Player—The "Grava" player enables users to view the rich interactive content created in "Grava" Authoring.
• Developer Tools—The "Grava" SDK is built on Silverlight..."

Working at one of the "Final Four" big US accounting firms, in a post Andersen/Enron world, means that I spend a good bit of my time each year doing mandatory self paced compliance/regulatory/employment policy/independence/etc training.

And well... Let's just say that... um... those CBT's are... um... well... yeah...   :|

Seeing the Grava project today, and that it's based on Silverlight, has given me a glimmer of hope that maybe sometime in the future we might see work related CBT's that are... um... better...?

(Okay... it's a long shot, but better to have a little hope than to completely surrender to apathy  ;)

You can only do so much with the currently available viable technology for our work CBT's (i.e. Flash). I'm hoping that Grava/Silverlight can knock down some barriers and provide the tools for building a better learning environment. Be it in Silverlight itself or in raising the bar for Flash.

We'll have to wait and see I guess. Still it's cool how MS is leveraging Silverlight. Gives me hope that this tech will stick and be around for a while...