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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?

eLearning Brothers

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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Product Review – Articulate Storyline 2

eLearning 24-7

Transitions, Animations, Views – I am fine using it once, but again, new product-new version, so why I am still seeing PowerPoint within this product to such a point, that TAV are exactly the same as in PPT? Joking aside much of the ribbon, maybe all, I wasn’t doing a cross comparison with PPT, seemed to remind me of PPT.

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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? It isn’t. Disgusting. .

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

Rapid eLearning

Compared to building courses in Flash or Authorware, the rapid elearning tools are easy to use. Every time i make PPT presenations I get confused what colors. There are a lot of other good books I could recommend, but this is a good start and covers a lot of the basics. Feel free to recommend other good books in the comments section.

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Preference of E-Learning – Structured or not?

eLearning 24-7

The rise of rapid content authoring tools, specifically the explosive growth of Articulate Studio, which in all sense of the word was nothing more than a PPT converter, allowed anyone, to create an “online course” ID skills not needed. For the authorware supporters this was akin to blasting the planet with gamma rays.

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How to select the right authoring tool

eLearning 24-7

In the authoring tool world: PowerPoint focused authoring tool, Basically you know PPT, love it and want the ability to build within it and then convert your PPT to a Course. In the housing world that would be whether you want a townhouse, apt., condo, house, etc. They are out there, I wouldn’t use one, but they do exist.