... involving teams of specialists (project managers, instructional designers, graphics people, subject experts, testers, etc ... you install on your desktop and online tools: Desktop tools ( Flash , Authorware , Lectora , etc.) will invariably ... use a specialist tool that generates Flash output; for rigorous assessments I'd use a tool like QuestionMark ; for ... ; for a software tutorial I'd use something like Captivate , Qarbon , Camtasia ; for a PowerPoint conversion I'd ...

Two situations recently have got me thinking about e-learning authoring tools. Firstly, I've been doing some more work on the script for The 30-minute masters which, if you remember, aims to teach the essentials of instructional design ... , consumers choose familiar options. However frustrating it might seem to seasoned instructional designers, those options ... (Atlantic Link, Mohive , Alto ). Tools which create media-rich components ( Raptivity , Flash , PowerPoint, Acrobat ... games (Caspian's Thinking Worlds ), software simulations (Captivate, Qarbon ViewletBuilder , Camtasia ) and ...