foremost professional association for users and developers of e-learning—William Ward, formerly of Cable & Wireless but now an independent consultant, examined the rise of rapid e-learning, which he dates to 2003, when tools such as Qarbon, Breeze, and ToolBook became available. todays rapid e-learning tools and tool exponents include Atlantic Link, Articulate, Mohive, Lectora, Adobe Connect, and Adobe Captivate, said Ward, while champions of the rapid application approach include not just Ward but also Kineo. 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.

Here are some pros and cons I found about them. Qarbon Pros: Less File size. Qarbon seems very easy to use. Cons: I'm finding it a bit difficult to integrate my voice with my demos and pull everything together. Creates as screenshot. To present a moving demo I need to integrate another product called Viewlet cam. Makes it a bit harder to pull everything together. Camtasia and Adobe Captivate : Pros: Heard lots of good thing about them. Cons: Worried about file size for both of them The more I am researching,

When you look at the keywords on the left you see things like: Social Learning (356) Social Media (411) Twitter (725) Google Wave (22) Camtasia (76) Adobe Captivate (71) Social Network (460) Now, the content set in this case are highly skewed towards innovators as compared to the topic sets being used by my past analysis (training conferences). But still, this gives a general indication and it's especially interesting when you compare it to 2007 : Corporate Blog (20) Personal Learning (23) eLearning Tools (323) Software