... learners a place to author their own textual, audiovisual content. Google Docs give learners a way to collaborate on ... : Google offers tools that recognize linguistic, visual, audio, gestural and spacial literacies in aggregate On ...

... learners a place to author their own textual, audiovisual content. Google Docs give learners a way to collaborate on ... : Google offers tools that recognize linguistic, visual, audio, gestural and spacial literacies in aggregate On ...

... sims, games) or rich media content (audio, video, 3D, animation) should depend on two factors: "The greater the ... Insider's Guide to Authoring Digital Learning, available on Academy Internet's website. To take another quote from ...

... they needed to be. They were highly interactive with branching, audio, video, etc. And they were long. A different ... empowering subject matter experts (SMEs). (Tom writes for Articulate, an e-learning authoring tool that can be used to ...

... option to purchase affordable alternate formats of the content (i.e. print & audio versions of the text, podcast ... and its authors earn compensation by offering affordable choices to students beyond the free online book, from printed textbooks for under $30 (printed-on-demand), to audio books for under $20, to downloadable and printable files by ...

Text books cost a fortune these days. And they don’t age well. And they don’t contain local information. This morning I had a chat with former textbook publisher executive Erik Frank, who’s out to change the situation. He and another text veteran formed Flat World Knowledge to reverse the tide. Flat World proposes to offer e-texts by known authors to students for free. (Students will pay for print & audio versions of the text, podcast study guides, mobile phone flash cards, etc.) Books will be printed on demand. On Monday, Flat World goes beta with four ...

IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive Audio primary source collection with international and regional dialects of English. Intended primarily for actors learning to imitate an accent, but could have other educational uses too. tags: primarysources, audio AU Press - The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (second edition) Terry Anderson has edited the second ed. of this book, available online under a CC-NC license. You can download the entire book or just individual chapters by specific authors. tags: e-learning, creativecommons, theory, technology, quality, ...

Last week I posted a summary analysis of the Top 100 Tools Spring 2008 list - and commented that from a breakdown of the authoring tools that were mentioned, organisational e-learning still appears to be very Web 1.0 whereas educational e-learning is embracing (free) Web 2.0 social media. A number of people have picked up on this comment, but notably Michele Martin, at The Bamboo Project.  In one of her postings she brought together some suggestions (from her reading ... existing resources in a variety of formats including video and audio - both expert and user-generated You can ...

... designed the latest generation of  rapid e-learning authoring tools. Over the past few days, I've been testing out a ... chance - Justin simply has to be sure they're up to it. OK, simple text and graphics or audio and graphics. The ... discussion. It's the sort of activity that a classroom teacher uses routinely. Try implementing this in a modern authoring ... a variety of media (text, images, audio, video), (2) a variety of input formats (multi-choice, multiple answer, free ... want to do this because it's far too much hassle; I want to use a simple, off-the-shelf authoring tool. If all we ...

I had an online demo of Rapid Intake's new online authoring tool Unison, and I must admit I was impressed. Unison has ... built-in templates, including all the usual question types, plus audio, video and a selection of games. Users can build their own templates using Flash and XML and share them with the authoring community. The tool also includes a screen ... to try authoring for real with Unison to see whether it lives up to its claims. In the meantime, I can't help thinking that this product is going to raise the bar for online authoring tools.

Guild's latest research report on authoring and development tools proves otherwise. Just look at these results, showing the ... (26%) Courseware authoring, i.e. more serious tools: #1 Captivate (60%); #2 Flash (47%); #3 Dreamweaver (43%); #5 Authorware (16%). Simulation tools: #1 Captivate (79%); #2 Flash (45%). Audio recording (!!!!): #1 Captivate (44 ... that Captivate outputs to Flash, a very high proportion of e-learning content seems to be in that format. As the authors ... few posts on online authoring tools, One prediction already on target followed by Online authoring tools not so ...

... for things like breakout activities.Prediction #3 => Authoring Tools - Captivate and Articulate Will DominateIt rhymes and it's an easy prediction that these two tools will dominate authoring. Interestingly, they both were originally considered rapid authoring tools but now are becoming THE authoring tools. Some lower-end, PPT + Audio tools will do well ... authoring.Prediction #4 => Less Authoring - More Web PagesWhile we may want to use our authoring tools all the time, there's going ...

I've been taking a look at an early version of RapideL's new online e-learning authoring tool, which they are calling RapideL-i. I've previously experimented with their desktop tool, RapideL Enhance, which works with Microsoft Word to ... , and the freedom they allow for authors to work offline. I would have no hesitation for reaching for one of these tools if ... producing a large number of modules that share assets such as text, images, audio and Flash movies. Working online, any member ... looking for an online authoring tool to check this one out once it's fully up and running.

... fields and customizable quizzes.Respondus StudyMate is a Windows authoring tool that lets you create numerous Flash-based activities and games using four simple templates. StudyMate provides an authoring environment that requires no experience ... - Add external audio, video, and images into the course content Flashform is customizeable and extensible by ...

... created in Flash. The product would be enhanced further by adding an audio narration. This work was to be carried out in ... ' development, so I decided to get back to him with some suggestions when I'd investigated further. A few days later, authoring ... to say, Mohive does all these and this emphasises why online authoring environments - particularly those that store ... assume you've got it right - test it locally.Not everybody can afford an online authoring tool, so I asked Steve Rayson ...

... and I've spent 1000s of hours with Cubase, one of the world's most popular sequencers and digital audio workstations ... choose a couple of authoring tools and this is the one I use for rapid stuff. I particularly like the Engage ...

Two situations recently have got me thinking about e-learning authoring tools. Firstly, I've been doing some more work ... client of mine that has an LMS with some authoring capabilities, trying to compare what they have to offer with what's ... authoring tool. Have you? Why on earth not?I do remember when the situation was a little simpler. First (back in the 60s I ... of authoring tools included a handful of really serious players, notably Authorware (now with Adobe) and Toolbook (now ... others are called (Authorware, Lectora, etc.). Of course, all authoring tools have always described themselves as ...

... with the actual device.These tutorials could be improved, however, by better and more extensive use of audio. They were ... reviews of and comments about these different projects, and ask the author questions.I think the Sony Ericsson and ...

... accurately reflect the authors' intentions. Enough disclaimers. Here goes:Use of mediaUse words and graphics rather than words ... , describe graphics using audio narration rather than text (80% gain). An exception here would be text (unfamiliar terms ... extraneous/non-essential text, audio and graphics (82% gain).Use a conversational style, using the first and second person, for both text and audio (67% gain).Practice questions and worked examplesBetter learning results when practice ... feedback should be presented as text rather than audio and placed alongside the question.Where audio or video is ...

In The Media Equation by Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass (Cambridge University Press, 1996), the authors make some ... following:Audio fidelity will attract attention to media.Audio fidelity will affect people's memory for audio information.People will evaluate better audio fidelity differently than poorer audio fidelity.I won't go into the experiments that they conducted here, but I'd thoroughly recommend you check the book out for yourself.So, audio fidelity does matter. Now in an age in which it is increasingly easy to communicate using audio (podcasts, adding narration to screen capture ...

... learning module. Collaborative audio recordings from translators in different languages: You send a script to them in ... your editing/authoring app. Many possibilities here.I hope to have Judy Brown, the queen of mobile learning, on ...