Two situations recently have got me thinking about e-learning authoring tools. Firstly, I've been doing some more work ... games (Caspian's Thinking Worlds ), software simulations (Captivate, Qarbon ViewletBuilder , Camtasia ) and scenarios ... . I really can't imagine many learning and development professionals being able to select a suitable tool without the ... with some success in learning contexts. Of course we'll need specialist tools for specialist tasks and perhaps that is the real future for authoring software - not for laying out multi-choice questions but for that category of e-learning ...

I attended the panel discussion on 'the future of rapid e-learning tools' at the eLearning Guild's Annual Gathering in Boston today with a misunderstanding. I thought I knew what 'rapid e-learning' meant. After all, LTI Magazine defined raid e-learning as "courseware (live or self-paced) developed in less than three weeks, where SMEs act as the primary ... failures and those of their colleagues. They can certainly learn to use the tools, which although far from being really ... rapid content as being SMEs. But has anyone told the rapid content development tool builders? The panel consisted ...

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Rapid eLearning Tools Satisfaction from the eLearningGuild Research reported Feb 2007 - Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction See also Software Simulation Tools . Page update Mar 2008. When the above graphic was ... , I believe that the eLearningGuild survey treated them as a Software Simulation Tool and that's part of the reason ... somewhat skeptical of niche tools (see eLearning Course Development ). In June 2007, I added a few more rapid eLearning tools . I also updated the graphic that shows eLearning Tool Satisfaction at the bottom of the page - see ...

Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning Corporate eLearning eLearning Design Authoring Tools Rapid e-Learning Tools eLearning (e-Learning) e-Learning Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... eLearning Tool Satisfaction See also Software Simulation Tools . Page update Mar 2008. When the above graphic ... , 2006 Rapid eLearning Tools : eLearning ...