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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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Bridge over troubled authoring tool waters

eLearning 24-7

So, why can’t we do it with all the authoring tools on the market? You would think that with over 140 authoring tools on the market, vendors would want you to try out their product before dropping any type of cash. What is equally ironic is that it just isn’t limited to desktop tools but also SaaS too.

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DevLearn 2011 – Notes from One ID Challenge and HTML5 Authoring Tool Review

E-learning Uncovered

Tracy Bissette of WeeJeeLearning created and moderated this panel of three instructional designers. We all agreed to take on a design challenge about six weeks before the conference, and show up ready to talk through 1) a design concept that we could present to a client and 2) our process and tools behind the concept.

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Lessons from the past

dVinci Interactive

In 1989, I created my first interactive video using an authoring platform called IconAuthor, and it required a newfangled operating system called Windows 2.1. For the first time instructional designers could do more than simple page-turner training. Very clunky, but very, very exciting!

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Memoirs of an "Instructional Designer"

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 26, 2007 Memoirs of an "Instructional Designer" I dont have a masters degree in instructional design or education. My current business card says Im a "Manager of Instructional Design".

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The King is Dead

eLearning 24-7

Brought down by the tool or tools, another retorted back. The King was pushed over the walls by poor design, irrelevancy to the subject and ghastly to say, indifference among various vendors. But in just a few years, there were plenty who could develop, design, build and launched the content using various weapons to achieve it.

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How to Become a Digital CLO

CLO Magazine

In 1994, software company Asymetrix released ToolBook, a computer-based training authoring tool that made it possible for virtually anyone to create web-based training programs. Being a CLO today is not about understanding instructional design or what new technology to use, he said.

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