The administrative and editorial costs of imposing and enforcing project standards are also greatly reduced, since lesson logic and many dimensions of look and feel issues are built into the templates, rather than left up to the discretion of the individual authors. This too, reduces quality control costs. Global revision and repurposing costs are greatly reduced. Since the look and feel parameters of the lesson environment can be easily manipulated independently of the instructional content, it is very easy to repurpose a course for use by a different client, without having to extensively reauthor the lessons. And yet every frame can be significantly authored from the lesson environment utilities to reflect the preferences of the new client in terms of screen layouts, color palettes, customer logo, etc.
Instructional rigor is improved.
Since the templates allow the capture and use of the best instructional design expertise available to the project, the least experienced developer on the team can implement powerful and effective instructional strategies. This improves student performance on the material and reduces required revisions. The combination of the templates with the multimedia database allows the use of the content for a wide range of other purposes. For example the content for a procedure lesson can easily be reformatted from the data base by a job aid driver to reuse the same information from the training segment as a job aid, instead. Or, the same information could be accessed by a reference engine for reference or research purposes.