Both of these tools make an excellent main development platform. I'm not going to lie--I know a lot of people who create entire courses using Engage templates and interactions. Plus, you can free-form much of the look and feel of your questions -- a big difference from other tools. The tool is so flexible, the company is so friendly, and the users are so passionate that an "anything is possible" feeling surrounds the tool itself. If you want to ramp up your ability to use a tool, there's no better place. Litmos community! Really short. Why not? Cheers! MORE >>

tools. Strategies will move much slower than organizations who adopt easy to use tools and make tactical use of these tools. Teach me less about communication and give me more templates for important, tough communication points. 6 - Greater Domination by Leading Tool Vendors - Captivate, Articulate, Lectora, Camtasia Captivate 4 is going to be a great tool. Articulate has a great tool set. It's going to be tough for me-too tools to push out these players in the corporate market. So, let's try it again this year. 2 - eLearning 2.0 MORE >>

Big thanks goes out to Coggno for featuring our eLearning Templates on the   Coggno Application Exchange. The Coggno Marketplace is an open resource that connects organizations that need E-learning and assessment content with the authors of that content. When you become a Coggno Author, you can use our free tools to create relevant content, and organizations can acquire it directly from you. If you have an expertise in a particular industry or skill set, this is an opportunity to share that expertise in a relevant manner, and make money doing it. MORE >>

Software vendors like Articulate create authoring software that has a bunch of features. But it’s the users of that software that will come up with how to use it. 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. like to build quick templates to practice some techniques. Ideally, you’d take the ideas and practice building your own templates. It’s just a matter of learning to use the tool. A few days ago I came across this thread in the user community. MORE >>

Many instructional designers ( Christy Tucker , Wendy Wickham ) build their own courses using tools like Captivate. I come from an old-school approach: I sort of understand the technology, but I leave the graphics and programming expertise to others. He says its important that instructional designers understand the tools and technology that are out there (as an architect understands building materials), but an instructional designer should be tool-independent and "technology-agnostic". Do you think instructional designers should be able to use the tools? MORE >>