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 ...

My organization, like many large organizations (and many if not most eLearning development professionals, for that ... a horrifically cumbersome environment in which to develop, but, from my experience, it churns out the most banal eLearning imaginable. Personally, I avoid developing in it at all costs. And when I find myself in the pitiable role of the learner, faced with a course that was developed in our LCMS, I do my best to avoid letting out an audible groan while ... eLearning that’s good? As a learner, I choose good, thank you very much. And as an eLearning developer, I ...

... eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups and Incredibly Cool! Vision of Future of Application and eLearning Development) that the ... 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 ...

... development tool. So while creating online presentations isn’t necessarily of much interest to many eLearning developers (and to those who wail “Bah, PowerPoint isn’t eLearning!” I have a few words for you in a future post), imagine being able to snag some of these beautiful Flash-based animations, created quickly and easily without Flash skills via a Web-based tool, and insert them into your eLearning course via your development app of choice. Yes, it sounds delicious to me too. My development app of choice, as I’ve mentioned before, is often ...

Intake collaborative eLearning development platform, Unisonââ¬~¢ is a web-based solution that lets designers and subject matter experts (SMEs) collaboratively capture, storyboard, develop, review, test, and publish Flash-based courses ââ¬â¬ýwithout having to know Flash. Novice users and content owners simply fill out form-based templates to create interactive Flash-based courses, while advanced users and communities create reusable custom templates by accessing the Flash ... Rapid Intake has been quietly working on a killer elearning app. I totally dropped the ball on this one. I had ...

... used in the past to be the onsize fits all for elearning development. Adobe is working toward helping the community to ... 's ;-)] I'm sitting in the Friday morning session of the Adobe eLearning Summit.Yesterday was awesome and the reception at Adobe was a blast. GREAT hosts!!! Good people. Can't ask for much more.Adobe eLearning SolutionsSo, Ellen is talking about Authorware and IT's future in eLearning:6 part plan1)Business continuity2)conversion3)migration4)enablement5)develop the next gen leanring content authoring6)improved communicationTom KIng will be acting as the Liaison for Adobe ...

DevLearn and the Adobe Learning Summit! This is quite possibly one of the coolest things I've seen in my eLearning career. And that's an industry leading software company focusing a major effort on the eLearning industry and the many elearning developers that have been using their tools to improve the learning process for so many.I was a very early user of Authorware, Director, and of course, FLASH. I can't remember how it happened but I became mostly connected with ... game...but no such luck. To many of us developers it seemed like a tool destined to die a slow painful death.At least ...

... eLearning development project for which I knew our firm could have done a terrific job. However, I remembered an earlier ... ? If I knew you needed X, I wouldn't have bothered.Moving Goal PostsWe responded to an RFP for an eLearning development ... half your life, nothing.....urgh.Unreasonable ExpectationsYou know the story....they want learners to develop and ... elaborate, so we will included many more Flash animations in our second proposal and pegged our budget at $X + 140 ... fashioned way....we contact those we think have needs for the types of services we offer (eLearning strategy, ...

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 ...

... eLearning Development in August of 2005.  We affectionately refer to it as the year we lost control.  That year in ... name because it most accurately reflected my career, and my passion.  eLearning can mean so many different things that ... developers...oops.  Yea, I know, Learning2.0 changes everything!1) As stated earlier; the learning trifecta: blogs, wikis, rss2) gaming:  no, not jeapardy style flash games.  I'm talking MMO here.  What's MMO? Oh nothing, just ... ; PeopleAggregator, ELGG, or my new personal favorite ZIMBIO.  Come hang out and join others in the Corporate eLearning ...

... eLearning Development Second Life and Learning Course and Courseware Fading - The Future of eLearningShift in eLearning from ... eLearningView of eLearning Development Approaches - Ease vs. PowerPoint Solutions vs. Suites and CompositionWhat is the Role of ... - Flash - WMV - Quicktime - Real eLearning DefinedROI and Metrics in eLearning eLearning Design - Posts about Designing ... Update 2/6/2008 based on recent Top eLearning PostsIt can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. The author(s ... this blog, you might want to read this.Blog DescriptionThis blog covers trends in eLearning and more broadly the use ...

... again about what corporate eLearning development will be like in five years. Actually, I'm not even that sure what it looks ... used in 2005 and it suggests that most content is being authored using fairly traditional tools such as Flash, PowerPoint, Dreamweaver, Captivate, Lectora. To a lesser extent people are using Rapid eLearning Development tools but this is ... defining it as an architecture for development. This is somewhat like Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups and Typepad Widgets - A Sign of Things to Come in eLearning Authoring / Developement. But I think that the idea of ...

... come through search, I thought I'd include the text here so it can be found: Custom Coding, Flash, DHTMLRapid eLearning ... 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 robust, complex learning solutions. Many learning applications do not require more powerful tools, thus, the ...