Flash programmer, game designer, research, etc. Here’s a brief listing of some of the competencies I think newbies ... , solution Knowledge of instructional strategies (application of theories) Tools of e-learning - authoring tools, systems ... , asynchronous, blended, distributed, performance support tools, etc. Course authoring - knowledge of software (simulation, game ... management, etc.) Attend conferences (online and face-to-face) Learn to use authoring and other software and platforms; HTML & ... . learned how to use authoring tools, created some asynch courses, developed curriculum, blended learning solutions ...

This month's question comes from a series of questions I've received recently on my blog all asking some form of, "I'm interested in eLearning. What should I do first?" Thus, for October we are exploring:First e-LearningAn example is shown in my post - First Authoring Tool.I am an educator in Arizona about to graduate with my Masters in Instructional Design. I wish to apply my experience designing courses for online learning; however I've searched and don't know where to ... . I've seen all sorts of software- Dreamweaver, Lectora, Captivate, Flash etc etc mentioned in job ads, but don't really ...

This month's question comes from a series of questions I've received recently on my blog all asking some form of, "I'm interested in eLearning. What should I do first?" Thus, for October we are exploring:First e-LearningAn example is shown in my post - First Authoring Tool.I am an educator in Arizona about to graduate with my Masters in Instructional Design. I wish to apply my experience designing courses for online learning; however I've searched and don't know where to ... . I've seen all sorts of software- Dreamweaver, Lectora, Captivate, Flash etc etc mentioned in job ads, but don't really ...

... learning is something that I believe has big time value.A long time ago I posted about Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add ... value in having these kinds of widgets available to us to include in our authoring. I don't think that Grockit can be the ... Learning and Social Learning Objects - Flash Cards that each use different models. Still, it's obvious that lots of ... this more appealing.There's also a difference here in terms of who authors the content. Most of the social learning start-ups look for users to author a lot of the content. In the corporate world, that still mostly falls to the ...

... learning is something that I believe has big time value.A long time ago I posted about Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add ... value in having these kinds of widgets available to us to include in our authoring. I don't think that Grockit can be the ... Learning and Social Learning Objects - Flash Cards that each use different models. Still, it's obvious that lots of ... this more appealing.There's also a difference here in terms of who authors the content. Most of the social learning start-ups look for users to author a lot of the content. In the corporate world, that still mostly falls to the ...

... all sorts of software- Dreamweaver, Lectora, Captivate, Flash etc etc mentioned in job ads, but don't really know ... create something that is realistic.2. Download a free trial of one of the more common authoring tools. My ...

... all sorts of software- Dreamweaver, Lectora, Captivate, Flash etc etc mentioned in job ads, but don't really know ... create something that is realistic.2. Download a free trial of one of the more common authoring tools. My ...

UMapper is the first universal web-based map authoring application.With UMapper you can create interactive flash maps and display them on your website or social ...

... study guides, mobile phone flash cards, etc.).Flat World Knowledge's mission is to take the best characteristics of ... and its authors earn compensation by offering affordable choices to students beyond the free online book, from printed ... flash cards, interactive practice quizzes, and more.Free textbooks. Pretty cool. I wonder if they can make money ...

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 ...

... calendars. Now, who is going to step up to the plate and develop a great eLearning authoring tool for the iPhone? Since my favorite eLearning software company is beholden to Microsoft PowerPoint (the Windows version only, no less) and Adobe Flash ...

... builder, a selection of learning games and Flash import, and exports to SCORM 1.2 (although I couldn't get my test ...

... readying my mouse pointer on the Next button. I found the monotony of flash cards in grade school more tolerable. RLOs, the theory goes, are merely building blocks (flash cards?) of information that can quickly and easily be lifted from one ... interchangeable nature of the content that causes the problem. It’s also the authoring tool itself. Because a tool ... you can’t create compelling eLearning using this type of authoring tool. I will argue, however, that this type of authoring tool doesn’t encourage you to create compelling eLearning. In fact, compelling eLearning is created ...

I think that [in the next 3-5 years] the changes will be more in the area of content authoring and development. ...remember how long we had to struggle with Authorware and clunky, inflexible, horrible-to-use proprietary authoring tools, before applications like Captivate and Articulate et al were eventually released?"In my view, in the last decade ... learning content in the short-to medium term.I still think we're a bit short on effective authoring tools to facilitate ... tools that help us bring our instructional ideas into reality without having to be Flash professionals or ...

... authors)- Exploration + They try different experiments. + Faculty just needs to teach. Not need to teach in a particular ... students.Agreement: School / faculty author gets resources from Lab, but school owns the intellectual property of the result.Why some ... applications. Leveraging faculty/author relationships.- Not commercialize more because realize it's a much larger than ... already has. ColdFusion, Flash. Has flexibility, but most data-driven, web-based and had infrastructure. + Human (DON'T ... + Flash. Game more flexible web app development.Allowed to build interactivity- Phase 2 - Flash + Remoting. Finer control ...

Flash Cards for students. It's well designed and very easy to use. It also does some interesting things:Allows users to categorize flash cards, mark them as being associated with particular text books, and then helps with the sharing of content. If you think about it, shouldn't the Flash Cards for most K-8 classes be similar?You can copy an existing deck and easily modify.They have automated definitions and translation to make it easy to create language flash cards.You can ... flash card content.There are flashcard decks for memorizing texting abbreviations and sports trivia to anatomy. You ...

... designed the latest generation of  rapid e-learning authoring tools. Over the past few days, I've been testing out a ... discussion. It's the sort of activity that a classroom teacher uses routinely. Try implementing this in a modern authoring ... at all in umpteen different languages (BASIC, Pascal, HTML/JavaScript, Flash ActionScript) over the years. But I don't 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 can ... a means to deliver interactive material. On the other hand, if there are any authoring tool vendors out there, ...

SUBMIT YOUR TIPS HEREFriday March 7th is the deadline!!!The recent Guild Research 360° Report on e-Learning Authoring and Development Tools found that a tools ability to output to Flash SWF files is the 3rd most important feature when evaluating authoring tools - only falling behind a tools ability to allow content to be easily updated, and that it's learning curve is low relative to other tools. With this kind of weight behind the use of Flash in e-Learning, we decide it was time to dedicate a new Guild eBook to the topic - Tips for Producing and Managing Flash-based e-Learning ...

... their own templates using Flash and XML and share them with the authoring community. The tool also includes a screen ... I had an online demo of Rapid Intake's new online authoring tool Unison, and I must admit I was impressed. Unison has ... Adobe Flex, with an attractive Flash interface. It allows you to build e-learning applications using a wide range of ... to try authoring for real with Unison to se