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Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points

Learning Visions

I’ve been slowly making my way through Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to create presentations that inform, motivate, and inspire. The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2005). While it’s geared toward the live, stand-up presentation (e.g.,

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State of the Authoring Tool Industry 2015

eLearning 24-7

UI enhancements are few and far in-between – You can still have robust ID course design with a modern look and feature functionality that goes beyond 2005; and does not use a “ribbon” look to do it. Recently added the ability to publish a storyboard in Microsoft Word.

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

eLearning 24-7

Microsoft Word converted to Flash? An alarming rate of “get the content up now, ASAP&# regardless of what it looks like, instructional design is typically tossed out the window, especially when the ID, CD or whomever is tasked to create is handed a stream of documents in Word or PPT or some other form. Simulations only.