Pearson Announces Availability of First LiveLesson at TechEd 2007

ORLANDO, Fla.--(EON:Enhanced Online News)--This week, Pearson Education (http://www.pearsoned.com/professional/index.htm), publishing as Addison-Wesley Professional (http://www.awprofessional.com), announces its very first LiveLessons (http://MyLiveLessons.com) video product. The LiveLesson Developing Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation (http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn= 0321503139&rl=1) by .NET WF expert Brian Noyes (http://www.softinsight.com/bnoyes/), will be showcased in the Addison-Wesley booth #845.

“They complement and extend our efforts to provide IT information in a variety of formats and sit prominently alongside our print books, Safari Books Online (http://www.safaribooksonline.com/), Short Cuts (http://www.informit.com/shortcuts) and On Podcasts (http://www.onpodcastweekly.com/) series.”

LiveLessons are DVD-based, hands-on personal video instruction comprised of full-motion video, audio, sourcecode samples and screencasts. They are designed to help professional developers and IT workers learn a new technology. The boxed product also includes an example-rich study guide, containing the learning objectives for each lesson plus additional reference material.

“The LiveLessons video training products present real-time learning from real-time thought leaders in a very polished and flexible format,” stated Paul Boger, VP and Publisher, Pearson Education. “They complement and extend our efforts to provide IT information in a variety of formats and sit prominently alongside our print books, Safari Books Online (http://www.safaribooksonline.com/), Short Cuts (http://www.informit.com/shortcuts) and On Podcasts (http://www.onpodcastweekly.com/) series.”

NEWS FACTS

Developing Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation (http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn= 0321503139&rl=1) for .NET developers is the first video training product from Pearson Education called LiveLessons. LiveLessons focus on training IT Professionals on cutting edge topics that tend to be complex in nature and best lend themselves to being taught through video training.
The trainers of the LiveLesson products are all established, well regarded, industry leading experts.
Developing Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation (http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn= 0321503139&rl=1) consists of twenty .NET LiveLessons that offer six to thirty minutes of hands-on training per topic adding up to 5 plus hours of overall video training. The goal of this LiveLesson is to teach and mentor developers on everything they need to know to get up and running quickly in order to produce quality .NET WF applications.
The bulk of each lesson is delivered in “screencast” format, where the viewer watches the trainer’s computer screen and follows along as the author’s talking head programs an application or manages a network and explains what is being done as it is happening.
With LiveLessons, users may watch the entire video or navigate directly to the content of choice, resulting in a truly customizable, self-paced, learning environment.
LiveLessons will soon be made available via streaming media at Informit.com (http://www.informit.com).
Forthcoming LiveLessons releasing this summer include Data Access in the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework (http://www.samspublishing.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn= 0672329522&rl=1) by Stephen Walther and Project Management for Mere Mortals: The Tools, Techniques, Teaming, and Politics of Project Management (http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn= 0321509196&rl=1) by Claudia Baca. Visit MyLiveLessons.com (http://www.mylivelessons.com) for more information.

About the Author

Brian Noyes (http://www.softinsight.com/bnoyes/) is a software architect, trainer, writer, and speaker with IDesign (http://www.idesign.net/idesign/DesktopDefault.aspx), a premier .NET architecture and design consulting and training company. He has been developing software systems for more than fifteen years, is a Microsoft MVP and Regional Director. He is the author of two books from Addison-Wesley Professional (http://www.awprofessional.com), Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0 (http://www.awprofessional.com/ bookstore/product.asp?isbn=032126892X&rl=1) and Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce (http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/ product.asp?isbn=0321197690&rl=1).

“Effectively using .NET Windows Workflow Foundation requires users to harness the Visual Studio workflow design tools. As a result, the process of developing workflow applications is a very interactive experience lending itself well to video instruction of a LiveLesson instead of printed book chapters,” said author Brian Noyes. “In this LiveLesson, I’ll lead users through acquiring the key knowledge they need for developing applications with WF and will show them through detailed demonstrations how to employ that knowledge.”

About Pearson Education

Educating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson Education (www.pearsoned.com) is the global leader in educational and professional publishing, providing scientifically research-based print and digital programs to help people of all ages learn at their own pace, in their own way. Professionals, leaders, academics, experts, and consultants draft the books and online resources that help develop today’s and tomorrow’s business leaders. Top technology companies who have chosen Pearson Education as their publishing partner include IBM, Symantec, Cisco, Adobe, and Macromedia. The company is home to such renowned publishing and information portal brands as Informit.com, IBM Press, Prentice Hall Professional, Addison-Wesley Professional, Peachpit Press, Cisco Press, Que Publishing and Sams Publishing. Pearson Education is part of Pearson (NYSE:PSO), the international media company. In addition to Pearson Education, Pearson’s primary operations include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.

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