road map

Easygenerator has a road map that covers more than two years. This road map is organized around three themes:

1. Improving the collaborating facilities
2. Improving the way you can design and create e-Learning, to make it easier
3. Improving the quality and effectiveness of e-Learning for the learner

As you can see in our releases of 2011 and 2012 we are well on our way of realizing that road map:

1. Putting the dots on the i's. (March 2012)
2. Improving the quality and effectiveness of e-Learning (November 2011)
3. Improving the way you can design and create e-Learning, to make it easier (July 2011)
4. Improving the collaborating facilities (April 2011)

There is a simple thought behind this and that is that we have truly great ideas but we don't know everything. We will repeat this release cycle every year. That gives our customers a year to work with a certain release (for example our workflow, task management and version control) and give us feedback on it, before we start working on that same theme again. This makes it possible to keep on improving easygenerator, taking our customer wishes and ideas serious.

Planned releases 2012
These releases will be ready in June (8.2) and October (8.3). The main attention points are cased based learning and new learning metaphors which put's the focus on the third point of the road map: better e-Learning.

Case based learning is a very powerfull form of e-Learning that really helps connect learning to the business. Creating Cased based e-Learning is already possible in easygenerator but we came up with a way to simplify the creation of the complex navigation structure and we will have a graphical interface, presenting that whole structure in one overview to the developer.

The new learning metaphors are a way of presenting e-Learning material in a different way to the learner. The goal is to give him more insight in the parts he needs to pay attention too and to put the learner more in control of his own learning process. Kasper Spiro published a series of blogs on this subject.