Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2007

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for July is 'how should e-learning developers choose their authoring tools given the proliferation of tools on the market?' Well, I posted on this subject just last week (see Confused of Brighton ) and even listed my own top ten tools , authoring or otherwise, in a subsequent post.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

I had an online demo of Rapid Intake's new online authoring tool Unison , and I must admit I was impressed. tool which, although not free, is pretty close. Unison is created in Adobe Flex, with an attractive Flash interface. I intend to try authoring for real with Unison to see whether it lives up to its claims.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 4, 2007

Two situations recently have got me thinking about e-learning authoring tools. Secondly, I've been doing some work for a client of mine that has an LMS with some authoring capabilities, trying to compare what they have to offer with what's available elsewhere. Everybody's got an authoring tool. Why on earth not?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Although I have decades of experience using (and at one stage designing) more sophisticated e-learning authoring tools - you know, the highly configurable ones with their own scripting languages - I now find myself turning more and more often to the so-called rapid development tools.

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Articulate Authoring Tools Blended Learning Quizmaker 40

Clive on Learning

MARCH 25, 2008

I complained how difficult it was with current rapid development tools to write more conversational inductive questions in which you as author are able to comment on each selection that the user makes. In my post last week, Whatever happened to inductive learning?,

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2007

First of all this person did not like Word-based scripts or storyboards - he wanted each programme to start life as a PowerPoint that approximated the finished product. Fair enough. The product would be enhanced further by adding an audio narration. Some graphics, photos, videos, etc. may need replacing.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 4, 2008

Because of its cost, high end content is almost always going to be a top-down learning intervention, created at the initiative of an organisation's management. The form may be a simple interactive tutorial, a short video, a podcast, a screen capture movie, a PowerPoint or a PDF. tools for informal learning.

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