Broadly speaking, an authoring tool is a software package which developers use to create and package content for delivery to end users. Typically, e-learning content developers integrate digital media including: Text Images Animations Audio Video …to create e-learning content and courseware. Since the term 'authoring tool' is somewhat non-specific, many programs can be considered authoring tools, including web editors like Dreamweaver, Flash, PowerPoint and even content platforms like Adobe Connect provide the facility to create learning content. Web 2.0 and Horton, K. MORE >>

Guest Post Andy Chan has been nominated as Best eLearning Designer in the Maestro eLearning Awards [ [link] ] , dubbed the OSCARS of the eLearning industry. What follows is an interview between Andy and the award’s organizers, Maestro eLearning [ [link] ]. To start off, I am currently a Senior Instructional Designer/eLearning Developer at Symantec Corporation. My path to Instructional Design, specifically eLearning, began about six or seven years ago. In the midst of grad school, I started a new job that utilized my eLearning skills. MORE >>

Thursday, May 13, 2010 Apple, Adobe, and the Flash eLearning Future Ive had a few requests from customers and prospects to address some questions raised by the firestorm of corporate rhetoric between Adobe and Apple and the "future of Flash". If youre not familiar with this subject, you may want visit these links for starters: Apples CEO on Flash - [link] Adobes CEO in response - [link] First of all, this discussion between these tech industry corporate powerhouses is far from over. Finally, Adobe is no small player in the software industry. This means that 1.78 MORE >>

How long does it take to create one hour of eLearning? Defelice, the time needed to develop one hour of self paced eLearning could take between 90 hours and 1743 hours. It’s surprising that ‘development without a template’ does not take substantially more effort then that required for ‘development within templates’. The numbers for ‘development within a template (using Lectora etc.)’ d expect high interactivity courseware to take the most development effort. Related posts: How Can Adobe BrowserLab Help in eLearning Development? MORE >>

Native application solution: The problem that arises from not having continuous connectivity can be resolved by developing a native application for the mobile device. These days, a SDK is available for almost every mobile device which can be used to develop native applications for that specific device. Related posts: Eight Tips for LMS Implementation Five Myths of Mobile Learning Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1– Recently we’ve made the UpsideLMS compatible to mobile devices and also launched a new version – UpsideLMS Version 4.0. operamini-phone-ua. MORE >>