Rapid e-Learning Polarizes Opinion By Bob Little October 27, 2009 Much to the disgruntlement of instructional designers and other e-learning specialists, rapid e-learning tools are offering in-house subject matter experts excellent opportunities to produce e-learning materials relatively quickly and cost-effectively—at least in the U.K. At a recent meeting of the eLearning Network—the U.K.s They say that there is no instructional design, no learning and so it is no good," said Ward. and U.S. MORE >>

There were some people who suggested that rapid elearning was only good for basic linear courses and they lamented that they couldn’t build interactive scenarios. ve built hundreds of rapid elearning courses and I can tell you that building branched scenarios with your rapid elearning tools is not only possible, but it’s actually pretty easy to do. With interactive branching you can also convert a linear elearning course into more of a story-like course that both engages the learner and lets them interact with the content. That’s pretty fast. MORE >>

Tools like Articulate Presenter are great for creating elearning courses. However, a lot of what you do depends less on the rapid elearning tool and more on your PowerPoint skills. In fact, I get so many emails asking about how to do this or that in PowerPoint, I decided to do a quick series on some essential PowerPoint tips and tricks. So far we’ve looked at: How to Be More Productive When Using PowerPoint to Create E-Learning Courses. The Hidden PowerPoint Shortcut Everyone Should Know. Sizing Shapes. Moving Shapes. MORE >>

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies Social Business Centre Home | Services | Resources | Training | Search Directory Index TOOLS DIRECTORY Instructional Tools These tools include authoring tools as well as as delivery/tracking platforms like course and learning management systems. employees, retailer or customers) at short notice. , Free trial, Hosted x x x x x Accessplan LMS Manage all of your blended learning using Accessplan LMS. Also part of E-Learning Suite. x x x x Coggno Robust and sophisticated learning management system. MORE >>

Free Tools to Help Get Your PowerPoint from Good to Great , October 21, 2010 Continuing the recent trend of PowerPoint in the news , I stumbled upon  an article in USA Today that provided some tips and advice for designing more engaging presentations. Open Source eLearning Tools , October 13, 2010 I was just asked about trends in open source for eLearning and particularly open source eLearning tools. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010: Final list, presentation and more , October 18, 2010 Yesterday I finalised the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 list. MORE >>