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Three Takeaways Today

eLearning 24-7

PowerPoint is not E-Learning and shouldn’t be used as your course tool/development – For whatever reason, there are people who have been around online learning for years, who still see PPT as a means for the creation of content – i.e. courses. PPT is boring. No need, PPT is here! No way around it.

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PowerPoint – The King of eLearning Tools?

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Most of the new authoring tools either use PPT as their backbone or offer the ability to import slides. Interface creation, navigation buttons, LMS tracking, and testing abilities are then typically added to the PPT functionality. Using these new tools meant that I had to start using PPT. Everyone has PPT.

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5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

Feel free to recommend other good books in the comments section. Compared to building courses in Flash or Authorware, the rapid elearning tools are easy to use. Take Advantage of the Free Stuff. There are lots of good free resources available that will help you grow in your skills. Collect free resources.

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The Latest: Rapid Content Authoring Tool Market

eLearning 24-7

PowerPoint – Ability to integrate or use PPT in your courses. Some vendors push heavily on PPT, implying that a great WBT is really a PPT converted to Flash. Listen, Authorware is dead, so why create a product that is trying to bring it back to life with your own product? People like free. It isn’t.

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

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While the assumption would be that all the products are alike, or that fee based tools are superior to their free counterparts, nothing could be farther than the truth. Macromedia Authorware and similar products. While some could argue that Authorware was a RCAT, I disagree. Open Source Free Content Authoring Tools.