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 ...