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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. Let alone $999.

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The Latest: Rapid Content Authoring Tool Market

eLearning 24-7

The RCAT (rapid content authoring tool) market continues to be healthy with nothing to slow it down – uh, except maybe one thing (more on that later). I am still surprised on how vendors who are offering assessment only tools are staying in the game. The data is in, the results are interesting and the competition is growing.

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The 5 Myths of Rapid E-Learning Revisited

Rapid eLearning

As soon as I asked that question, I heard all of the bellyaching from our Flash developers and most of the custom e-learning vendors we hired. They felt threatened and raised all sorts of concerns about the future of the industry and the fate of e-learning. Myth 2: Rapid E-Learning Is A Second Class Product!

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What I am hearing and seeing in E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

It comes from fellow readers who send me e-mails or talk to me via social media. It comes from people I meet at events. It comes from me talking to vendors, buyers, monitoring the industry all the while taking notes and seeing the trends/patterns appear right before my eyes. The same for authoring tools. Upside Learning.

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E-Learning 24/7 Latest News and Notes

eLearning 24-7

Topyx LMS by Interactyx – Now supports the Ipad tablet and will enable you to create HTML5 courses via their content authoring tool and fully SCORM certified – This part is coming this summer. What LMS and LCMS vendors support APIs and why this should be the first question you ask any prospective vendor. Plateau LMS.

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Trade Show Circuit 2013

eLearning 24-7

On the vendor side, nice set to select from although on the freebie side – always is lame. Vendor Angle. A must for any e-learning vendor. That said, vendors have found the show overall to be a mixed bag. Vendors have told me that overall they find this to be a very worthwhile event.

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#ASTDTK14 Review

eLearning 24-7

As in the case with any session laced event, some people found that speaker X went off task or speaker C was horrific. 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. E-Learning 24/7 .

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