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Mobile Learning Moves the Evolution of Authoring Tools

Association eLearning

With the growth of tablet devices, authoring tools are having to re-invent themselves, yet again. It’s nothing new —just another step in the continual evolution we’ve seen since the early 1990s, when authoring tools were first introduced to help eLearning professionals create and deliver learning.

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Fears of the Course Authoring Tool Market

eLearning 24-7

Its nearly Halloween and with that comes the shocking and fearful excitement or lack thereof of the scariest things on the plane appearing at the movie theaters, in costumes, television and for us, the course authoring tool market. Just in the past two years the per license cost of authoring tools has skyrocketed.

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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

The Macintosh, with its free HyperCard program, also helped a generation of tech-savvy teachers make their own software and tutorials for students. Commercial software companies were quick to develop computer-based educational materials and learning games as well. CD-ROMs quickly became a thing of the past.

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The Content Conversion Cause - Abhijit Kadle

Aptara

Since the advent of e-learning, Macromedia products were popular, and enormous quantities of content were generated using platforms like Director and Flash. Director died alongside CD-ROMs, taking Shockwave with it, but Flash hung around. . Flash to HTML5. Some forms of conversion to consider: .

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PowerPoint Add-ins – Develop E-learning Courses Rapidly

CommLab India

Courses can be published to formats such as Flash, HTML, PDF, or CD-ROM. The presentation can be published to different formats such as HTML5 or Video. The iSpring suite PowerPoint add-in helps turn your PowerPoint presentations into Flash or HTML5 formats. SCORM 2004, AICC, and Tin Can. Office Mix.

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SCORM vs AICC: how do they compare?

Elucidat

When these standards were originally set up in 1993, they only focused on CD-ROM based training. Many elearning authoring tools let you create a course with SCORM output without any programming knowledge. It was designed for Flash. HTML5 courses can be created to SCORM standards, but it limits their functionality.

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Lectora to Convert PowerPoint Presentations into Engaging E-learning

CommLab India

In this post, we will see how to convert PowerPoint presentations using another widely used rapid authoring tool – Lectora Inspire. Step 02: Now, open the Lectora software installed in your computer and click the Import PowerPoint button. After deleting the slides, save this document in the desired location.

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