Several use cases inform the design and development of the DITA Learning and Training
Specialization.
- Enable indexing, searching, and retrieval of learning content
- By structuring content with DITA topics and maps as self-contained learning objects matched
with appropriate DITA metadata, it is possible to enable fast indexing, search, and retrieval
of learning content that meets specific learning goals and objectives.
- Creating custom courses quickly
- A company has a large inventory of topic-based content that is used to provide technical
and troubleshooting information about a set of componentized software products. It desires to
enable field engineers to quickly identify technical content that is suitable for providing
on-site training. The DITA Learning and Training Specialization enables field engineers to
draw on their inventory of topics and quickly assemble learning content to meet specific
customer needs.
- Making technical content available for direct sharing and reuse in learning and
training
- A DITA learning specialization makes it possible to define a context for and directly
assemble and use existing technical content for delivery as learning and training. The DITA
approach identifies consistent structures and patterns and leverages them to enable a
consistent approach for sharing content across teams. The result is much more opportunity to
share content between different providers and across areas of expertise, to learn from each
other, and to deliver content and the learning experience consistently. As a result, instead
of copy, paste, and make unique as the norm, we have write once and share with others as the
new norm.