Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2011

Rapid elearning design is made up of three core functions: rapid authoring, rapid assets, and rapid instructional design. And this is a big challenge for many elearning developers. Having the authoring tools is one thing. Now that the elearning community is complete, I’ve been moving old demos and templates over to the site.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 15, 2012

In a recent post I made this comment about rapid elearning tools: Rapid elearning played a role in the evolution of elearning mostly because it took course creation out of the hands of a few programmers and placed it into the hands of anyone who wanted to create a course. A Tool’s Just a Tool.

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eFront

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Leaning Circuits - ASTD Everyone has something to say about e-learning, but are we communicating in the same language? E-Learning Glossary - Imperial College London Barrier-Free eLearning When participating with WSU, College of Engineerings Barrier-Free eLearning program, you may be introduced to new terms and concepts.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 5, 2011

So tapping into that expertise can save you a lot of time trying to figure out how to do something with the tools you have. Free Image Generator. There are all sorts of free image generating applications online. If you’re on a limited budget, why not take advantage of them to create some assets for your elearning courses.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2011

Two things always stand out during these trips: There is no one way to do elearning. Some people build courses, some create marketing material, and some use the rapid elearning software to create multimedia information. One of the sessions I did in Atlanta was on how to get the graphics you need for your rapid elearning courses.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 7, 2011

PowerPoint’s a great authoring environment for elearning. If you can step away from the “bullet point” mindset and all of the complaints, you’ll see that PowerPoint’s got a lot to offer those who build elearning courses. With a rapid elearning tool, you’re using PowerPoint’s easy authoring environment to create Flash movies.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 17, 2012

One of the topics we cover in the elearning workshops is how to quickly create templates to help move the elearning courses out of that PowerPoint look. While the actual templates work for some of your projects, the main point is less about the actual output and more about developing technical proficiency with the tools you have.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 3, 2011

In today’s media-rich world, we’re exposed to all sorts of multimedia which helps inspire ideas for elearning course, but it also can create customer expectations. Provide a list of diverse elearning examples where they can see different approaches to elearning. This is easy enough to do in a tool like PowerPoint.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 2, 2011

3 Things You Can Only Learn from a Real E-Learning Expert : Learn to work with subject matter experts and the tech-savvy millennials; and get a definitive explanation of how to finally spell e-learning eLearning elearning leearning. 3 More Free Tools to Help Build Better E-Learning Courses : We’re all on a budget.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 14, 2011

With a budget you can hire a graphic artist who can come up with some different design ideas for your elearning courses. In many ways their screens are similar to those we might find in an elearning course. Below are a couple of images from the PowerPoint template I quickly mocked up. You can see an example in the demo below.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2011

PowerPoint’s designed as a presentation tool. While the application is versatile and great for elearning, many people still struggle to get past the PowerPoint look because the features are designed to encourage the use of the templates. They’re Just Tools That Build Multimedia. Vendors design tools with features.

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Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Odds are that during the summer months elearning wasn’t on the top of your list. So I decided to weed through some rapid elearning information and pull out a few posts that you may have missed. And of course, there are some free PowerPoint elearning templates, too. Tips on building content for your elearning portfolio.

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eFront

OCTOBER 24, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 10/24/2010 Free Stock Photos Sites for e-Learning As an e-Learning developer I had to invest a lot of time to find images for my e-Learning projects. To take a digital camera and take my own images wasnt an option.

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eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 26, 2014

On the expo side, and I know ASTD Events are going to disagree with me (err, they already have via Linkedin), I wasn’t overly impressed on the number of vendors’ booths. Authoring tools vendors – pickings were slim, Adobe was present, so was Allen Interactions (Zebra Zapps), but no Articulate? Penny Slots.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 28, 2010

With as many PowerPoint questions that I get, it’s a good thing that over the past year or so the elearning community has created about 300 PowerPoint tutorials. I also included a free PowerPoint elearning template to celebrate the holidays and a great 2010! Create a click and zoom effect to view images. Create a faded image.

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eFront

JANUARY 5, 2011

CamStudio - (Authoring Tool) CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs). All assets are configured to be played back in a pre-configured order.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 3, 2010

Had a great time last week in Indianapolis presenting to the Central Indiana ASTD chapter. So I had time to kill and decided to pull together a free elearning template for the blog readers. Click here to view the elearning template. If you want to succeed at rapid elearning, you have to develop your PowerPoint skills.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 28, 2011

You Already Have a Great Mobile Learning Tool. And you already have the tool to do so. I’ve already proven in dozens of posts how great it is as an authoring tool. So you have the tool. Images and video can be saved to the iPad easily using iTunes. Save as Image. You already own the tools.

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eFront

JANUARY 10, 2011

Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1 edition (May 25, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0787982997 eLearning by Design by William Horton. eLearning Uncovered: From Concept to Execution does a nice job of walking beginners through all aspects of eLearning from choosing an LMS, design tools, and the actual course design.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

And when you’re the only one working on your elearning courses, eventually they all start to look the same. I thought that the way it was designed would work great in an elearning course. So I continued through the magazine, challenging myself to find at least 10 graphic design ideas I could use in an elearning course.

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eFront

DECEMBER 12, 2010

donated by David Becker - (WORD) - ( Update 12/18/2010) Storyboard Template X donated by Christopher Pappas - (PPP) Storyboard Template donated by Mike Palmer - (WORD) Sample Storyboard About Recording Events in FPE donated by Rod Ward - (WORD) BHPB IronOre Storyboard donated by Rod Ward - (WORD) BHPB GGP Storyboard Template donated by Rod Ward - (WORD) (..)

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 6, 2010

For example, I use the social bookmarking tool, Diigo , quite a bit. It’s one of my favorite tools because it makes team collaboration and file syncing so easy. It’s a great way to share all of this elearning goodness with your friends and family (especially children on long road trips). I’m also a big Dropbox fan. Sign up here.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Here’s what I find typical of people who do rapid elearning. So they buy an authoring tool and quickly convert the content. I call this the rapid elearning story because it’s a story many people relate to. I shared more detail in the post on building a roadmap to better rapid elearning. Rapid Authoring.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Therefore, as we move forward, we all must consider when, how, and why we integrate the tools that we do into our classrooms. => for Associations Jeff delivers an easy-to-read primer on how to leverage social media tools to expand the learning value that associations deliver. Dunlap Protocols for Online Discussions Joanna C.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 21, 2010

The past few days I’ve been pulling some content together for a couple of workshops I’m doing at the ASTD TechKnowledge conference in San Jose. The workshops are for those who are just getting started with the Articulate tools. An added bonus is that the documentation includes some really high quality images.

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eFront

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Rapid e-Learning Branching Scenarios by David on 03/31/2010 First iPad University Course by eLearning coach on 05/2010 A Research Design to Evaluate e-Learning Projects by Michael on 07/08/2010 Easy Mobile Learning (Sort of…) by Rick on 07/13/2010 Learning styles: Worth our time? Please share it with us by leaving a comment!

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eFront

JULY 23, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Modules Reactions: 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Get the eLearning News first! Recent Comments Blog Archive ► 2011 (3) ► January (3) Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Le.

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eFront

JULY 12, 2010

Before CSS3 we would need to work with images or javascript to produce a round box effect. images/css_images/gradient.gif) repeat-x top; height:25px; border-top: 0px solid #1f3349; border-bottom: 0px solid #1f3349 } Below you can find several screenshots from the theme (as is rendered on FireFox 3.6) describing the design choices.

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eFront

APRIL 8, 2010

December 17, 2010 1:23 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Get the eLearning News first! Recent Comments Blog Archive ► 2011 (3) ► January (3) Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Le.

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eFront

APRIL 13, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: eFront , facebook , Offers , social media Reactions: 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Get the eLearning News first! Top 5 e-Learning books for beginners Top 10 Open Source e-Learning Projects to Watch fo.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 4, 2010

It’s a fact that you CAN build effective elearning with rapid elearning tools. All it requires is that you craft a sound learning strategy and get the most out of your tools. To demonstrate this, I deconstructed an effective elearning course originally built in Flash and then built a mock up in PowerPoint.

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eFront

MARCH 30, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 3/30/2010 10 tips for using eFront Here is several practical tips for making your eFront experience more enjoyable 1) [professor] Zip and upload multiple images. Then just unzip on the server.

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eFront

JANUARY 16, 2011

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 1/16/2011 Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Learning Open source software can be used as we wish, without long-term commitments and with a community of professionals that extend and support them.

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eFront

AUGUST 24, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Reactions: 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Get the eLearning News first! Here is a list of the most important additions since the initial 3.6

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eFront

AUGUST 2, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Modules , RSS Reactions: 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Get the eLearning News first! Recent Comments Blog Archive ► 2011 (3) ► January (3) Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Le.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

joaomattar (Update 11/30/2010: suggested by Gisele Brugger ) David Anderson e-Learning designer and Community Manager @Articulate.com @elearning Judith Christian Carter Judith specializes mainly in instructional design & e-Learning. concepts in eLearning November 28, 2010 6:56 AM Christoforos Online said. Another good idea.

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 14, 2009

This post is in response to some conversations I had during the last ASTD conference in Washington, DC. 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. So you’d end up with something that could look like the image below.

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