This month's ASTD Big Question relates to a person who graduated from a theory-only program in Instructional Design and was not provided with the experience of actually creating instruction using any of the latest tools. Here are two such courses. 57.584 Online Course Design -teaches Blackboard, Centra, Captivate, Adobe Presenter, Snag-It and Hot Potatoes. 57.588 Learning Management System Administration requires students to develop and deploy an actual course using the LMS Plateau (Why Plateau? So the question is: What advice would you give to someone who has no experience with e-learning development tools?

Here are some of the things that people mentioned: link new hires and senior staff through a wiki to learn from one another in starting at corp questions and answers used a wiki to collect data from managers instead of surveying them Vodcasts wikis and semantic engine for knowledge management and mining classroom extension / preclass work wiki for java programmers sharing info about sustainable practices throughout the corporation We are using a blog to assist our Adobe Captivate users with internal troubleshooting and to release important internal standards group roleplays that grow

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eLearning Learning Hot List - May 15, 2009 to May 22, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. The Challenge of Training the PlayStation Generation - The E-Learning Curve , May 15, 2009 Metalearning - eLearning Technology , May 20, 2009 Presentation: Blogs in Education - Don't Waste Your Time , May 22, 2009 Aligning Learning Theory with Instructional Design - The E-Learning Curve , May 21, 2009 List of System Variables in Cp4 - Adobe Captivate Blog , May 15, 2009 Presentation: Wikis in Education - Don't Waste Your Time

Given that I came from one of the pioneers in the industry (eHelp) which brought RoboDemo, now Adobe Captivate, to market (which btw we purchased from a guy selling the previous incarnation out of his garage in Australia), you would think that I am a true believer in the concept. They are reduced to storyboarding in PowerPoint or Post-its, developing in Captivate or Articulate, and using iStockPhoto to fill in for their illustrative work. The term ‘rapid elearning’ has befuddled me for some time. Beth's reference to "Rabid eLearning" in her recent blog post got me thinking

Presentation - ASTD Orange Have Work and Learning Changed or the Way We Do Work and Learning? Learning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes) Understanding eLearning 2.0 Needed Skills for New Media eLearning 2.0 - An Immediate, Important Shift Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Or I can also drop in a brief demonstration or simulation authored in Captivate. eLearning Technology Tony Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e-Learning Trends

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Webinar- Captivate 4 for new users - Adobe Captivate Blog , July 14, 2009 The Disciplines of Modern Enterprise Learning - The ASTD BIG QUESTION for July’09 , July 15, 2009 eLearning Learning Hot List July 10, 2009 to July 17, 2009 Top Posts

ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 San Antonio is over. The facilities were infinitely better, the frequent meals provided by ASTD were a nice bonus, and the sessions seemed better organized and of higher quality. Well done, ASTD. The Adobe Captivate 3 workshop was a revelation for computer simulation training. After having had a little time to think and reflect, here’s my overall review of the event. I

Tackling a New Captivate Project - In the Middle of the Curve , August 21, 2009 Open letter to our customers on the recent Customer Support issues - Adobe Captivate Blog , August 28, 2009 Aug 09 Measuring What Matters - August - ASTD , August 23, 2009 Best of eLearning Learning August 21, 2009 to August 28, 2009