Are you a learning content creator? 🖍 — This will make your life much easier!
Creating learning content is not an easy task. Authors face many challenges on their way as learning content must be highly interesting and relevant for the learner.
Learning content must be up-to-date as it represents the latest scientific standards and it also has to take out the complexity of a subject.
Furthermore, to make the learning content more diverse and fun to work with, it should consist of a variety of content formats like graphics, images, video, and audio content. Quizzes and surveys are also essential to test what has been learned so far.
And after all, it needs to sell well — as that’s the business behind it.
To summarize: Learning content has to be instructional, organized & straightforward at the same time. Plus, it must be highly interesting, always up to date, and easy to sell.
Nothing easier than that 😅.
These requirements mean a lot of work for authors and creators of learning content. They have to manage many challenges and need a tool that helps with these challenges.
A tool like bitmark.
What is bitmark 🚀?
bitmark helps authors to create instructional content from scratch. As we learned above, educational content is all about simplifying, structuring, and organizing topics. This is where bitmark is a perfect fit, as the basic idea of bitmark is that you break down the content into smaller parts.
So-called bits.
Each bit has a specific purpose: a knowledge test, an instructional example, an exercise, a video, a summary, or a best practice case.
Each bit is marked with this purpose — that’s why we call it bitmark.
Listen to Teacher & Education Content Creator Roman Schurter talking about his experience with bitmark:
So, how does bitmark make your life as a Learning Content Creator easier?
You create smart content from scratch.
When creating learning content with bitmark, you have to think about the learning purpose of each content. So you automatically create good, thoughtful, instructional content from scratch.
And because your bits are marked, the final learning content becomes smart.
This means:
2. You have endless possibilities to create interactive and adaptable learning experiences
Because the content is very modular, smart and structured, you can quickly adapt it to your needs.
The most obvious benefit of bitmark is that you can transform your educational content quickly and effortlessly from static like PDF to interactive ebooks.
But you can use your smart bits also in smartphone apps, chatbots, or AI apps. You can use bitmark modules to create entire websites or online courses. Or you can use them for traditional printing by combining them into chapters and books.
bitmark offers dozens of predefined bits with which you can easily create interactive learning content. Quizzes like multiple choice, cloze texts, or essays. But also surveys, bots, or even multimedia content with video or audio and in a way that they can be used on a mobile phone as well as in a paper book.
And this also works in traditional classes between students and coaches. Teachers can talk to students to determine which next learning steps are needed and then select the appropriate learning content from the bitmark pool.
It is like individual learning, bit by bit.
3. You have no lock-ins anymore
bitmark is an open-source standard, that means learning content created with bitmark can be used in all systems and apps that support the bitmark standard.
It’s like the HTML of learning content.
Since bitmark is open to everyone and every platform the content becomes easy to edit, import and export.
4. Your workflow becomes simpler
bitmark makes content management easy, workflow-friendly and productive.
You can use bitmark modules multiple times, in parallel places.
bitmark enables a “one-source strategy”, meaning you can publish your once-produced content seamlessly on multiple channels like mobile apps, legacy e-learning systems, CMS and even paper.
The cool thing is that you can quickly update the content in one central place, then it will be refreshed everywhere.
bitmark makes learning content also easy to share and distribute as its goal is to make learning content accessible for everyone.
About bitmark 🚀
bitmark is the world’s only strictly content-first open-source standard for creating learning content.
By providing a standard, a common ground, for digital education, we can make education accessible for everyone and enable social and economic participation for youth, women, and deprived communities.
Become a Supporter of the non-profit bitmark Association and help us close the education gap in the world 🙌🏽
Have a look at the documentation of the bitmark standard: https://docs.bitmark.cloud/