In an April post, I made my case for narration in eLearning. As a learner, I love it (when done right). So as a developer, I like to create narrated courses. Many of us, for budgetary reasons, have to do our own in-house narration work. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing - I made the point in that earlier post that professional voiceover work can sound synthetic if you don’t get the right voice for your project. And I won’t even start griping about those robotic text-to-speech tools that are being foisted upon the eLearning development community (note my rant on ...

Recently I’ve been pushing our organization to focus on nurturing more in-house eLearning development skill versus frequently relying on outside vendors who give us mundane eLearning at outrageous prices. “We can do far ... dials? Seriously? And if eLearning development is such a menial, low-grade task, why are we paying vendors high-grade dollars to do eLearning development for us? Someone please explain the logic here. With this kind of attitude, it’s ... bunch of SMEs to hash out the course content is of more monetary worth than the eLearning developer who has to step ...

... pricey world of eLearning development software, is practically free. Not to mention all the typical testing equipment (and ... ;anecdotal evidence.” Wish me luck. Mac-using eLearning developers, give Silverback a look. And non-Mac-using eLearning developers, what the heck are you waiting for? ... the built-in camera found on most current Mac models to record video and audio of your user while simultaneously ... personal MacBook or iMac and do some eLearning usability testing on some of our customers using Silverback. I really ...

... seminar series will be 1 week before the 3rd anniversary of Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development. It just seems ... this Learning2.0 adventure:Thanks for stopping by Corporate eLearning Development. I chose the title because it can mean so ... there for all 4 days hanging out with the BEST in eLearning. Even better is that I expect to actually learn a lot from the ... Oregon, I have committed to making this blog and it's resources a reality.I don't believe that many eLearning ... preaching old school ISD and how to create all of the "elements of effective eLearning"...forget about it. I would urge you ...

... no duh” argument to many of you, but it’s exactly what our big-dollar eLearning development vendor often ... hear a SME (or eLearning developer) breathing heavily into a $10 headset microphone patched through his budget-line ... learner to pay attention to it. Robo-voices should be ostracized by the eLearning development community. Ostracized with ... the eLearning development intern would do. He has great vocal energy and can read out loud without sounding scripted ... The debate rages among eLearning design professionals about the value of narration in eLearning. How much ...

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Development).In June 2007, I added a few more rapid eLearning tools. I also updated the graphic that shows eLearning ... . This list includes a host of additional tools that eLearning Guild members consider rapid eLearning development tools ... eLearning Development tools.Based on a couple of recent posts about Rapid eLearning and Rapid eLearning Tools (What is ... a list of eLearning tools. Most of these fit into the PowerPoint + Audio and most convert to Flash for delivery.I've ... Rapid eLearning Tools Satisfaction from the eLearningGuild Research reported Feb 2007 - Course Authoring and ...

Based on some discussions around What is Rapid eLearning? and Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids, I've realized that one of the mental models I use can be roughly summarized by the following picture: where Ease is roughly how easy (cost, time) is it to develop using that approach and Power is the ability of the tool to provide ... come through search, I thought I'd include the text here so it can be found: Custom Coding, Flash, DHTMLRapid eLearning, PowerPoint + Audio + Interactions, Form-based Authoring (LCMS), Interactive PowerPoint, Simple HTML, Dreamweaver, ...