57.584 Online Course Design -teaches Blackboard, Centra, Captivate, Adobe Presenter, Snag-It and Hot Potatoes. This month's ASTD Big Question relates to a person who graduated from a theory-only program in Instructional Design and was not provided with the experience of actually creating instruction using any of the latest tools. So the question is: What advice would you give to someone who has no experience with e-learning development tools? Where do you start? Particular tools you should explore? Resources you should read? Videos/screencasts you should watch? Here are two such courses. MORE >>

That’s why I was interested to read the analysis by Karl Kapp (see Time to Develop One Hour of Training ): “In 2003, the low estimate for developing one hour of instructor-led, web-based training delivery (using software such as Centra, Adobe Connect, or WebEx) was 30 hours and the high estimate was 80 hours. People often ask how long it takes to develop one hour of self-study e-learning. These figures nearly always surprise people, because they wouldn’t normally spend anywhere near this time developing for the classroom. An hour is an hour is an hour. Both higher. MORE >>

Saba Centra. As I write on my iPad, thoughts swirl abound. With all these vendors talking about their solution and its capabilities on mobile devices, it should be easy to find an app for that. Regardless if the vendor is m-learning specific, content authoring tool, LMS, web conferencing or a hybrid.  It shouldn’t matter. If your telling me your solution is mobile ready, then all I should need to do is go iTunes or Android and find your app.  Simple, right? Ahh, here’s the rub. It isn’t. Thus they can advertise they offer mobile learning. Even better. emTrain? SumTotal? MORE >>

Getting mobile: Their Centra web conferencing system and performance applications are available for iPhone and iPad, with Android and Blackberry in the works. I must confess it is now four months since I received an in-depth demonstration from the people at Saba of their People Systems Suites. The new versions have been released now for a while, so it may be old news to you, but I was interested enough at the time to take a whole load of notes, so I thought I should share some of these with you. Across all applications the total now stands at 17m. The company is debt-free. MORE >>

suppose all the commercial virtual classroom alternatives (Centra, Adobe, WebEx, etc.) WiZiQ + Live Class Module for Moodle YouTube: WiZIQ - The Free T&L Platform Via Patricia Donaghy WHAT? On WiZiQ educators and learners can connect live anywhere in the world from home using this FREE virtual classroom software. Inside the virtual classroom you share an interactive synchronized collaborative environment where you can communicate with each other on one-to-one basis using microphone, chat and share whiteboard (similar to blackboard in the classroom), presentation and documents. MORE >>