Adobe eLearning solutions
Overview
eLearning solutions
Transform ideas and information into innovation, action, and enterprise business results through engaging content, flexible delivery, and rapid deployment. Adobe eLearning solutions include industry-leading authoring tools, real-time collaboration, effective curriculum management, and robust reporting capabilities.
By need
Rapid training and eLearning
Rapidly create Adobe® Flash® Player compatible learning content regardless of technical ability.
LMS integration
Extend your Learning Management System (LMS) investment with real-time collaboration and interactive content.
Technical communication
Author and publish user manuals, help systems, training, and instructional content.
By industry
Trends in eLearning
Going green — are learning professionals ready? Adobe's Silke Fleischer examines strategies and tips for green learning initiatives.
The Promise of eLearning — This paper presents a framework for the reemergence of eLearning as a set of teaching, training, and learning practices not bound by a specific technology platform or LMS.
Customer spotlight
Adobe eLearning excellence
Technology & Learning Award of Excellence 2007
Adobe Captivate® software wins the Legacy Winner award.
ELearning! magazine Readers' Choice Awards 2006
Adobe Connect™, Adobe Captivate, and Authorware® software win top awards, including Best Simulation Solution and Best Collaboration Solution.
Highlights
Contests
- Adobe eLearning Challenge
Win great prizes, including software and free attendance at the Adobe Learning Summit. Adobe is recognizing innovative and engaging uses of Adobe products for eLearning. Submit your entry by October 5.
Live events
- Adobe Learning Summit
Join us for an insider's view on how Adobe solutions can help you create, deploy, manage, and track successful eLearning programs across your organization. Engage with product experts and peers, exchange best practices, and explore future technologies. The Adobe Learning Summit, co-located with DevLearn 2008, takes place November 10, 2008, in San Jose, California.
eSeminars
- eLearning Luminary Series
Join leading industry experts as they discuss real-world eLearning issues, strategies, and best practices. - Creating Engagement for Virtual Classrooms
OnDemand eSeminars
Product news
- Announcing Acrobat Connect Pro 7
Learn about the latest release of Adobe Acrobat® Connect Pro software, featuring high-impact web conferencing and eLearning that anyone can access.
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Seminars and events
OnDemand eSeminars
- Solutions for Authorware Users
- Government Series: Transform Your Agency's Online Training
- Beyond eLearning, presented by Marc Rosenberg
- Overview of the eLearning Industry: This eSeminar — hosted by Dr. Ellen Wagner and presented by Chris Howard, principal analyst at Bersin & Associates — examines the current landscape of the eLearning industry. Learn about emerging technologies and trends that can give you an advantage in developing and deploying curriculum, training, and education.
- Strategies & Techniques for Creating and Delivering Engaging eLearning and Interactive Content: Dr. Allison Rossett explores strategies for engaging employees and students and shows real-world examples.
- Informal Learning Meets eLearning: Noted author Jay Cross explores the convergence of two significant trends that are transforming workplace education and training: informal learning and eLearning.
- Mobile Learning: Why Learning Professionals Need to Care: Dr. Ellen Wagner explores the current status of mobility, mobile learning initiatives, and ten questions to ask as you plan for learning — anytime, anywhere.
- New Delivery Technologies for On-Demand Learning and Information
- Improving eLearning Experiences with Adobe Captivate
- Telecom: Drive Customer Revenues with Rapid eLearning: Learn how to deliver on business objectives with an accelerated and engaging eLearning strategy.
Upcoming events
Live events
- Adobe Learning Summit
Join us for an insider's view on how Adobe solutions can help you create, deploy, manage, and track successful eLearning programs across your organization. Engage with product experts and peers, exchange best practices, and explore future technologies. The Adobe Learning Summit, co-located with DevLearn 2008, takes place November 10, 2008, in San Jose, California.
Contests
- Adobe eLearning Challenge
Win great prizes, including software and free attendance at the Adobe Learning Summit. Adobe is recognizing innovative and engaging uses of Adobe products for eLearning. Submit your entry by October 5.
eSeminars
- eLearning Luminary Series
Join leading industry experts as they discuss real-world eLearning issues, strategies, and best practices. Understand what the future holds and learn how to improve your development practices and training content to meet those challenges. - Adobe Technical Communication Seminar Series
- Creating Engagement for Virtual Classrooms
Case studies
Most recent case studies
Thomson Reuters
Leading global information solution provider reduces eLearning development time 50% with help from Adobe Captivate and Adobe Flash Professional.
Thomson Reuters success story (PDF, 150k)
Video tour: Enabling engaging eLearning
Reuters
Leading provider of content and transaction services for the financial services marketplace takes eLearning to the next level with Adobe Flash, Adobe Captivate, and Acrobat Connect software.
International Power Users of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Symposium
Australian teenagers use an Adobe Acrobat Connect hosted solution to present findings to a United Nations audience.
Grundfos
Leading manufacturer streamlines training and delivers compelling eLearning courses to customers and employees worldwide using Adobe Connect.
Education case studies
Utah Education Network
Innovative service provider uses Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional and Adobe Captivate 2 to deliver dynamic, on-demand training and support to teachers.
University of Notre Dame
World-renowned university immerses web visitors into campus life in vivid motion showcasing Adobe Flash Player video content.
Manufacturing case studies
Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc.
Global provider of document solutions streamlines operations using Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional for eLearning and global collaboration.
Mine Safety Appliances Company
Manufacturer uses Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional to cost-effectively reach staff, dealers, and customers worldwide with vital product safety and usage training.
More manufacturing case studies
Government case studies
U.S. Department of Defense
Training exercises and simulations created and delivered through Adobe Flash and Acrobat Connect Professional help keep troops prepared.
Tribunale di Cremona
Italian court adopts Adobe Connect for web-based trials and leverages Adobe LiveCycle® solutions for more secure, reliable document sharing.
Graduate School, USDA
Innovative training institution engages its national network of staff, instructors, and consultants in interactive, cost-effective online learning using Adobe solutions.
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Resources
Resource Centers
Visit a Resource Center to find examples, technical guides, best practices, and tips that will help you create and publish learning content, train and collaborate through online meetings, and manage online learning.
- Get the most out of Acrobat Connect Professional
- HED: Collaborative Teaching Center
Designed for faculty, staff, and students in higher education - K–12: Communication and Collaboration Resource Center
Designed for administrators, teachers, and students in K-12 education - Education: Teach with Adobe Acrobat — instructional resources
- Accessibility Resource Center
- Adobe solutions for eLearning FAQ
Blogs
- Accessibility
- Informal learning and Adobe Captivate
- Mobile Mind: Tom King's blog exploring corporate eLearning and eLearning specifications/standards
- ADL Community blog: Supporting the global advancement of distributed learning
- Informal Learning blog from the Internet Time Group
Informal learning with Adobe Captivate
Learn more about informal learning with Adobe Captivate 2 and Adobe Contribute® 4 software.
White papers
- Going green — are learning professionals ready? (PDF, 739k)
Strategies and tips for green learning initiatives. - Engaging with the new eLearning (PDF, 3.8M)
Twelve strategies for engaging and retaining learners through compelling online experiences. - Transforming to next-generation digital learning content (PDF, 543k)
- Serious games: Online games for learning (PDF, 2.5M)
- Informal learning: Extending the impact of enterprise ideas and information (PDF, 726k)
- Involving SMEs in rapid eLearning authoring (PDF, 868k)
- Flexible authoring solutions for learning professionals (PDF, 787k) Learn more about using ToolBook and Adobe products together as a complete content authoring suite.
- Delivering on the promise of eLearning — Ellen Wagner, senior director, eLearning Solutions, Adobe Systems (PDF, 1.7M) This paper presents a framework for the reemergence of eLearning as a set of teaching, training, and learning practices not bound by a specific technology platform or LMS.
- Speed is king: Rapid creation and deployment of enterprise eLearning solutions (PDF, 2.6M) Karl Kapp of the Institute for Interactive Technologies at Bloomsburg University cites corporate success stories and offers key tactics for planning, developing, and deploying rapid eLearning. Use this white paper to gain insight into techniques and procedures that will help you quickly develop and deliver your enterprise-wide eLearning solutions.
- Leveraging multimedia for eLearning (PDF, 2.6M) Get eLearning authoring tips in a paper developed by Ruth Clark, author of "e-Learning and the Science of Instruction" and "Efficiency in Learning."
- Telecom/call center training: Transforming customer service in the telecommunications industry (PDF, 80k)
- Rapid eLearning: What works (PDF, 318k) This white paper from the industry analysts at Bersin and Associates profiles tools, techniques, and best practices for rapid training development.
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