New SofTutor Training for Camtasia Studio Reduces Learning Time, Increases Retention & Saves Money

BARRINGTON, Ill. - Dec. 12, 2013 - PRLog -- While classroom training can be effective for short-term learning of software, many learners do not remember their training when needed. This can be due to insufficient remembering, insufficient practice or lack of repetition (Five Failures of Workplace Learning, http://www.willatworklearning.com/2011/10/ )¹. SofTutor Author can mitigate these issues by allowing teachers and trainers to create, modify, and index video training they create or videos available on the Internet. With SofTutor for Camtasia Studio, learners can follow along in Camtasia Studio and learn by doing. Learners improve their long-term retention of the concepts because they get realistic practice with immediate feedback if their output does not resemble the output in the video. SofTutor for Camtasia Studio also gives learners spaced repetitions over time through its extensive index. Concepts and features can be quickly searched with learners watching the training when it is relevant to their work. Learn by doing and indexing can reduce the time it takes to learn by 50% or more. SofTutor ROI Whitepaper - http://www.nvsi.com/Increase_ROI_Through_Performance_Base... ²

Using Camtasia Studio training videos available from the TechSmith Website³, New Vision Software, Inc. (NVSI) created the free SofTutor for Camtasia Studio. Since the training videos already existed on a website, the SofTutor for Camtasia Studio 8 title was created in 10 hours by one person. It contains over 2.5 hours of video instruction covering 320 indexed topics and 45 lessons. Randy Hilgers stated, “It took more time to decide what should be in the index than it did to index.” Indexing generally takes about four times the playing time. Once indexed, titles can be used for collaboration, just-in-time learning, skill sharing, technical support, or video management.

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SofTutor for Camtasia Studio can be used to train 1 to 2,000+ concurrent users. It requires a high speed internet connection and Windows 7 or Windows 8.

Teachers, trainers, help desk staff and subject matter experts can use SofTutor Author to create training from local, LAN, Intranet and Internet video sources mixing videos from multiple sources within one project. SofTutor Authoring Tools are available as individual and concurrent user licenses for download or CD-ROM for as low as $499. SofTutor Authoring Tools include SofTutor Author for creation and modification of content; SofTutor DataMigrate to move courses between databases; and SofTutor Test Player that can be configured on a live server or a test server then migrated to a production machine. It does not include video recording software. Note that other licensing options are available, please contact us for more information.

New Vision Software, Inc.

We at NVSI believe that Aristotle was correct when he said “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”⁴ NVSI revolutionized software training by combining overlaid hands-on video learning with easy to follow examples. Since 1995, over 250,000 SofTutor users — from major universities to Fortune 500 companies to those learning at home — have reduced their learning time by at least 50 percent while increasing their retention of the material. Customer satisfaction has remained at 99.976 percent since 1995. With the new SofTutor Learning System, subject matter experts can create customized training programs with their own content while users can find and display specific training information without leaving their current application.

Citations

1. Thalheimer, Will. October 24, 2011. The Five Failures of Workplace Learning Professionals. Will at Work Learning. Retrieved December 12, 2013, from www.willatworklearning.com/2011/10/.

2. Hilgers, Randy and Tarkowski, Diane. August 2, 2010  Increase ROI through Performance-Based Learning. SofTutor is the Fastest Way to Learn, Teach & Collaborate!. NVSI. Retrieved December 12, 2013, from www.nvsi.com/Increase_ROI_Through_Performance_Based_Learning.pdf.

3. 2013. TechSmith | Camtasia Studio, Screen Recorder and Video Editor. TechSmith. Retrieved December 12, 2013, from www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html.

4.Bynum, W. F. and Porter, R. (eds). 2005. Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations. Oxford University Press. 21:9