Is Adobe Captivate suitable and easy to use for Primary and Secondary Education lessons?
In my opinion, the assets and learning objects that can be created using Adobe Captivate can be suitable for any level of learner, as long as the solutions are truly learner-centric. The ability to craft engaging and immersive learning experiences is beneficial for primary, secondary, and adult education alike. With all of the wonderful tools included a course creator can ensure “Sticky” learning experiences, continued engagement trough the built-in interactions, and promote better recall and retention.
Many learning specialists believe that incorporating gamification aspects into the eLearning arena promotes intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to a generation of learners who have spent their entire lives using technology and playing computer or video games. Adobe Captivate allows this sort of integration and activity.
While many have said there is a significant learning curve (myself included), Adobe has created many beneficial tutorials and resources to help anyone looking to learn how to navigate Captivate. Sure you will have to put in the time and effort, but anything worth doing requires hard work and dedication. You can do anything you put your mind to!
Easy to use is a bit subjective as everyone learns differently and some people find certain things easier to learn than others. But if you are committed to learning it and putting the time in, I think it is a valuable tool that I am just scratching the surface of at the moment.
Suitable, I believe it is suitable for most levels of education, depending on how it is used. Later primary students could participate in some eLearning, depending on subject matter and mode of delivery. For early primary students, I am not a fan of online education for this age group. I think for most secondary subjects, students can participate in eLearning, although I wouldn’t want to see this for everything.
The social aspect of learning, especially for younger children is important. As we get older, that social learning becomes different and we are more accepting of this difference. Younger children develop so much of themselves with the physical interaction of others that I wouldn’t want to replace that with eLearning. Now, that said, this, in some ways, is what is happening during Covid, but from all reports, it has not been the most effective, at least in my area of the world.
That is my opinion and anyone is welcome to disagree. Our opinions are our own and we have that right. But use the software in the correct context and it can be an effective tool for most levels of education.
I hope I have provided something for you to consider.
Thanks
Sorry to pop in, but you may have missed several of my answers concerning using eLearning assets. I have used them originally exclusively for a class environment, not for pure online learning. They fit perfectly in a strategy which includes Flipped classes, personalised (accelerated) training. If you agree with that viewpoint more is possible. As a teacher with decades of experience no one needs to persuade me of the importance of social learning, not only for primary school kids but for any ‘learner’ notwithstanding the age. Too often that aspect has been neglected for ‘online’ learning. During intense project based weeks I was available for my students through Twitter (easy for short questions), discussion groups, mail and live but also encouraged students to participate the same way. Lot is possible, but lot of those possibilities are ignored for nonsense reasons.
Your viewpoint was to the point, do not misunderstand. My biggest problem here is with the term ‘Discussion’, while often it is just a ‘Question’. What does the OP expect: an answer or more? You offer the ‘more’ in this (real) discussion. But since most people asking questions never return to see the answers? You belong to the minority who tries to be part of the community. Thanks for that attitude!
IMO, Captivate is the most full-featured development tool, so yes, it would absolutely meet any educational needs you have for development. I agree with Lieve that it does have more of a learning curve, but with that, you aren’t limited in what you can do once you’re familiar with it. I strongly recommend you follow her and Paul Wilson’s blogs to see what the program can do.
Suitable for sure! It is a very powerful, flexible and multifeatured authoring tool which has moreover roundtripping with main Adobe applications like Photoshop, Audition, Illustrator, Animate and more…
Easy to learn: that depends both on your goal and your present skills. Do you use Word with all its features, or just like a replacement of a typing machine? It will be more difficult to use Captivate if your attitude is close to the typing machine way. I am just being honest, you don’t have to believe me.
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