| The Old Way |
Effect |
The EB Way |
| Disjointed Team collaboration |
Version confusion and delays |
Seamless, realtime online collaboration |
| Lots of documents and tools |
Little reuse, lots of delays and rework |
Write once, use everywhere |
| Learning model suffered from playing “post office” |
Finished product poorly reflects the learning model |
Each production step is controlled by the learning model |
| Cumbersome review process |
Delays and conflicts |
WYSIWYG authoring, frequent online prototyping |
| Approvals in abstract, “black box” development
process |
Unusable feedback, differences in interpretation, ineffective
quality control and last minute surprises |
Live content online, up-to-date prototypes published as
needed |
| Late changes difficult to make and error prone |
Cost overruns and errors in finished product |
Separate the content from interface and programming, template
the system and organize content in easy-to-understand format |
| All or none outsourcing |
Expensive products and little control, lots of potential
surprises |
Online, collaborative authoring lets you take on as much
or as little of the process as desired. Easy to use tools
require no programming expertise. |