The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for July is 'how should e-learning developers choose their authoring ... 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 ... Accelerator and experienced first hand how easy it was to work with others to share assets and learning objects and to work ... , they're not cheap. For an open source alternative, try EXE . Of course, if it isn't an e-learning tutorial you're after ... content that learners can contribute towards I'd use a wiki; for a 3D learning world I'd use Caspian's Thinking ...

Two situations recently have got me thinking about e-learning authoring tools. Firstly, I've been doing some more work ... half-decent piece of e-learning to show all those folks who come along to take a look. Secondly, I've been doing some 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 ...

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 ... representatives from Adobe Captivate , Articulate and Qarbon , along with Jay Cross (yes, I know, I wondered ... all -it's e-learning people looking to knock up something quick and dirty (my words not their's). One member of ...