This month's ASTD Big Question relates to a person who graduated from a theory-only program in Instructional ... question is: What advice would you give to someone who has no experience with e-learning development tools? Where do you ... your "To Learn List" look like? Holding myself back, I will calmly answer the question as per Tony's request to not ... courses. 57.584 Online Course Design -teaches Blackboard, Centra, Captivate, Adobe Presenter, Snag-It and Hot Potatoes ... . Once you master something like Lectora or TrainerSoft, you will have the basics needed to master similar programs.

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for July is 'how should e-learning developers choose their authoring ... should address the Big Question in a more measured way than in last week's rant, so here goes ... The answer to the question, of course, is that it depends on what you are trying to create. If it's an e-learning tutorial that you're after ... you install on your desktop and online tools: Desktop tools ( Flash , Authorware , Lectora , etc.) will invariably ... Articulate or Adobe Presenter . It's OK to have lots of tools, if you can afford them. Just use the tool that ...