Elearning with Dreamweaver X

In the fast-paced world of high-tech, it's hard to keep up. I've found this book very useful in helping me get started as an ID who wants to also create training. Recommended.

It's a distinct pleasure to come across a software book that has been thoroughly researched, well thought-out, is organized and provides just the right mix of ease-of-use and in-depth detail for its readers. Betsy Bruce's work here is very well done and certainly qualfies as one of the best computer books I've read recently. It's easy to see that she has a background in education and training based simply on how well she presents her material and how carefully she has sequenced the instructions in this book.Whether you are a new user of Dreamweaver MX and need to understand the basics of designing for the Web, or an experienced web designer who needs to understand the process of developing learning applications this book has something for you. From laying out pages, to controlling the presentation of your pages with Cascading Style Sheets, to the options for establishing database connections the book takes a thorough look at the many ways that instructional designers can use Dreamweaver's tools for developing courseware. For more accomplished developers, the chapters on instructional design will help you understand the process of designing courses and how the course development proceeds during the design phase of a project.This is simply an excellent book. Well-written, logically organized, and comprehensive in its approach, you won't find a better book for developing eLearning applications than this one!

If you're developing online training or elearning, Betsy Bruce's explanation of Dreamweaver MX should help you get more out of this powerful application. You can read this book cover to cover or dip into it and read those chapters that address your current problem. Bruce uses the ADDIE approach to creating elearning. She doesn't spend a lot of time discussing instructional design, but refers her readers to some excellent resources. The bulk of this book is a step by step description of how to use Dreamweaver MX and CourseBuilder extensions to implement learning activities. Dreamweaver MX incorporates the dynamic Web page creation that was previously available in UltraDev. Bruce discusses how to create and track a dynamic Web site and describes how to use Learning Site to track and administer your elearning application.The book concludes with several chapters on collaboration and optimization. Dreamweaver MX provides reports that will help you manage your elearning application. These reports are invaluable when assessing the quality of the application or making plans for updating or revising the site. This book won't tell you how to teach what needs to be taught, but will help you implement an instructional designer's vision for an elearning application. The downloadable files should help the novice developer explore the power of Dreamweaver MX.

If you need to know exactly how to create WBT with Dreamweaver, this is the book for you. Although I've programmed in other tools (Authorware) I needed to understand Dreamweaver...fast. While this isn't exactly a Dreamweaver beginners book, it covers the steps that are necessary to actually create eLearning. My entire department is buying this book.