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FEBRUARY 28, 2016

eLearning and user interface? Instead of professional eLearning creators (instructional designers), we now focus on people who do not have an eLearning background. As a result we now have the requirement that someone with no eLearning background should be able to use our tool and create a course or a quiz without any training.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Many new eLearning authors create eLearning with a presentation (PowerPoint) mindset. This article contains seven tips that will help you to create more engaging and effective eLearning modules. It will be almost impossible to create an eLearning course that is completely story based. I’ts a must have!

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MAY 19, 2013

This is a first post in a series of post on Agile eLearning development. I do believe that agile software development can offer us even more very practical ‘best practices’ that we can apply to eLearning. The idea is to go over the process of agile software development at easygenerator and translate that into eLearning development.

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MAY 29, 2013

I planned to write this second post on agile eLearning development about the backlog and estimations. He is the author of the book ‘Leading without commanding’, it was originally published under the title ‘The input- output manager’. How does this apply to eLearning? Post 3: Agile eLearning development (2): Culture.

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DECEMBER 20, 2015

Internet has changed everything and it is changing eLearning fundamentally. This trend is revolutionizing the eLearning industry. The creation of eLearning was the domain of instructional designers. Specialized, complex and expensive software allowed them to create bespoke eLearning solutions. What is happening?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2012

This year more than ever DevLearn addressed the future of eLearning. It will be a mutual challenge for the people who are developing this standard, for vendors and for eLearning developers. No, we need to facilitate new forms of eLearning where you can include real live activities into your eLearning. So what to do?

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MARCH 3, 2015

More and more people with no eLearning background are creating eLearning. I found that there are three simple things that will make the eLearning courses more effective: Have a clear goal. The wrong way to start creating an eLearning course. An eLearning course is very different from a (PowerPoint) presentation.

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MAY 3, 2013

In the third chapter they have a look at what ‘good’ eLearning should be, I quote: “Concise, effective learning events, whether delivered through e-Learning or not, are meaningful, memorable, and motivational. It is clear that both authors have a few decades of combined experience in eLearning development.

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MARCH 21, 2015

Recently I was doing a presentation on eLearning trends. During that presentation I realized that there are just a handful of people driving fundamental change in eLearning. These are the people who really change our landscape and have a big influence on my working eLearning life. ELearning Hero #1: Jay Cross.

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JUNE 25, 2015

Do you have questions in general about eLearning? I will answer any questions regarding our authoring tool easygenerator. And finally I love to talk about eLearning so try me out. Do you have ideas or requirements that we do need meet? Join me at one of my weekly Question & Answer sessions.

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JULY 14, 2016

Easygenerator is eLearning software with a very specific focus on people who do not have an e-Learning background. Educate prospects on Easygenerator’s eLearning authoring solutions. Easygenerator provides cloud-based e-Learning authoring software. International sales representative. Account Based Selling.

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Easygenerator Sales Authoring Tools Corporate eLearning 100

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MARCH 2, 2016

We added a really cool feature to our eLearning software Easygenerator this week, the “Review option” You can now invite anyone (they do not need a subscription) to your course by sharing a link and they can view the course in any browser. No more emailing of courses to reviewers, checking spread sheets with their remarks.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Easygenerator is the only e-Learning authoring software that works this way. To solve this problem, easygenerator is developing an eLearning course that will instruct you on how to create great learning objectives. The idea is that we help people in this way to create better courses.

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Learning Objects Learning Objectives Authoring Tools Easygenerator 184

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MARCH 14, 2014

Let’s start with authoring courses. Easygenerator offers a completely web-based authoring environment that can be used for free or with a subscription ($19 per month). It allows you to create instructionally sound eLearning courses based on learning objectives. to create courses and learning content.

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MARCH 8, 2016

Creating effective eLearning is hard, especially when you do not have an eLearning background. In this article I will describe how you can improve your eLearning by creating smaller modules and tie them together in learning paths. One of the most common mistakes in eLearning is that authors create modules that are way too large.

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JUNE 24, 2014

At sessions like this you realize how ‘old school’ the current default elearning approach (authoring, uploading a SCORM package to your LMS) is. It gives more flexibility, is on demand, you can create device specific apps that can use the features of that device and so on. Check the mind map for details.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Therefore, we have ensured our authoring tool is well-suited to empower employees to generate their learning. First and foremost, it is of importance that the authoring tool has no learning curve. We at Easygenerator belief that Employee Generated Learning is the way forward.

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JULY 10, 2015

At easygenerator we it is our goal to help our authors to create more effective eLearning. And now we have added Learning paths, the way to better retention, byte-sized mobile learning and adaptive learning; in short to better and more effective eLearning. But now we set the next step on the road to better eLearning.

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MARCH 20, 2014

He is the author of “Getting organized in the Google era” He didn’t do it for me. When to switch eLearning tools by Joe Ganci. I love Joe, his knowledge on authoring tools is unique. He started out by saying that it should not be the tool that determines the elearning, but the learner, the context and the goal.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

By facilitating an easy to use authoring solution you can have an impact on that process by ensuring a more standardized, cost-effective and sustainable way of working. Kevin Claus, Instructional Designer, Nielsen: “We were looking for an easy to use eLearning authoring tool such as Easygenerator that is intuitive and not intimidating.

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MAY 23, 2013

The role of formal eLearning courses is diminishing. Food for thought for me as a CEO of an eLearning authoring tool. ASTD2013 e-Learning eLearning' But overall it looks like everybody is catching his breath and is waiting to see which developments they can’t ignore any longer. Day 2 and 3 recap. Day 4 recap.

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MARCH 19, 2013

The last 2,5 years my focus has been on eLearning authoring and I think this a very informative post on selecting a LMS. As you are searching for your perfect Learning Management System (LMS), you need to have a sense of any problems in your organization to make sure you get the right prescription for an eLearning solution.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

I will be leaving for Las Vegas in less than one hour, visiting the eLearning Guilds annual conference. We quietly pre-launched our free edition prior to DevLearn to make sure we could build it up slowly and monitor it closely, in order to ensure a perfect authoring environment. I will try to post a daily blog about my findings.

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DevLearn Blogging Easygenerator eLearning Guild 140

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MARCH 20, 2015

65% – Courseware authoring tools. 35% does not even use an authoring tool at all. There probably is a relation with the fact that 38% doesn’t have any qualification in eLearning or instructional design at all. e-Learning ATD ID report elearning instructional design tips Status of instructional design'

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

The eLearning guild has a reputation for inviting surprising key-note speakers and it looks like they have done it again. We have a movie producer, an entertainer, an adventurer, an author and a TV personality. I’m curious if they are able to make the connection from their background to eLearning. Session 611.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

This time I did because as a CEO of an authoring tool it is very interesting to keep up to date with the authoring capabilities of Learning Management Systems. It has tips and warnings and could actually guide a teacher through the complex system Blackboard is and let him create, publish and use an eLearning course.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

Why Easygenerator will launch a free edition of her authoring software. There are three post in this list (on 1, 4 and 10) about a new metaphor for eLearning. An other interesting development here is Michael Allens SAM, an agile methodology for eLearning development. The top 10 is: A new metaphor for e-Learning.

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Easygenerator Blackboard Instructional Design ADDIE 185

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APRIL 24, 2011

Since three years LINGOs and the ELearning Guild organize the ‘ Global give back competition ‘ where e-Learning companies create courses (for free) and make them available to the ngo’s. They have a community, offer free use of e-Learning tools and have a library of hundreds free e-learning courses.

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MARCH 14, 2013

I was interested because I thing performance support, training and eLearning together will integrate learning into the workplace. Interesting for me was to hear eLearning specialist talk about the need to over a part of their training effort to performance support, in order to connect to the business and the business goals more.

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Conference Easygenerator Solution Server 140

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MARCH 6, 2018

We decided to start developing a very easy, web-based eLearning authoring tool in the spring of 2013, and we launched our first paid plan (our minimum viable product) in 2014. Now, one of my main goals is to write and speak about the changes in eLearning and the direction in which we see L&D heading.

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MARCH 15, 2015

I had the honor to give a presentation at Zhytomyr state university about eLearning trends. But at the same time it is a strange idea that you are presenting on a topic like eLearning in a country where there is a war going on and people are struggling to make ends meet (most of the people in the audience are teachers).

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Propaganda Easygenerator eLearning Tools Conference 100

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JUNE 21, 2012

As you can see Maslo is an open source authoring and publication platform for mLearning. There is a similarity with online help, that offers context too, but very few have been able to integrate or connect online help and eLearning. I have three more reports of sessions I attended and my personal wrap-up of the conference.

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Conference Mobile Mobile Learning Open Source 196

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FEBRUARY 6, 2010

QMlive authoring process Why is it so special? They created rapidly the first version of a simple authoring tool and put it live in April 2009 as a service for all Questionmark customers. Even if you just have 5 licences for authors, you still have access for an unlimited number of QMlive authors.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

This license means you are allowed to use, reuse, change and share all the information in this blog, as long as you recognize me as the author. Mostly focused on PowerPoint users but also usable for eLearning. A Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. My list of websites with free images, sounds and video’s.

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APRIL 5, 2018

You cannot expect every technical specialist also to be a brilliant author. Do you need one size fits all solution or a learning landscape that features multiple tools and components? Other issues are the competencies of subject matter experts and the amount of time they have. You need to guide and teach them. Change of plan.

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MAY 11, 2015

The economic crisis and fundamental changes in eLearning are threatening them and forcing them to change in order to stay relevant. Image adapted and republished with permission of the authors: Meyer & Rademakers, 2014. Corporate universities are surrounded and affected by change in a fast changing corporate landscape.

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Corporate eLearning Organization Easygenerator eLearning Strategy 100

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Easygenerator has decided to launch the free edition of het authoring tool on October 12 th. The authoring interface of easygenerator is a Windows application, so you will need a computer with Windows to run it. Complete eLearning courses. This free edition will enable you to create complete eLearning courses.

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