Foreword

Over the past twenty years, eLearning has become a mainstay in education and training around the world. With the transition from formal classroom education, the ever escalating costs of travel, and face-to-face meetings, along with the increasing ease of communication using the Internet, no responsible organization can afford to invest the extraordinary cost and time required for traditional classrooms when virtual education is so easily accomplished.

While corporate and academic demand continues to escalate for eLearning, there is still very little genuine understanding of how great eLearning courses can be developed. At the core of this requirement is the need for texts that explain how rapid eLearning authoring software can be used to create high quality learning modules.

Adobe Captivate has been the leader in eLearning authoring for many years and its continued popularity is assured with the release of Adobe Captivate 6. It has never been easier or faster to create amazing, engaging, and effective eLearning content. Using Adobe Captivate you'll be able to rapidly build great looking content with little or no programming, and deploy it to an amazing variety of media and locations.

Your journey toward mastery of Adobe Captivate may begin here with this wonderful work from Damien Bruyndonckx. Damien provides a concise, easily understood, and thorough introduction to Adobe Captivate 6. He has illustrated the text well, providing a wealth of examples and links to online resources that lead the reader to a deeper understanding of related concepts should you want to learn more about any topic.

Jack Welch said, "An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage." Your journey to both facilitate learning in your organization, and to do so rapidly begins here.

Allen Partridge

eLearning Evangelist

Adobe Systems