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10 Common mistakes when developing and delivering an eLearning course: Part 1

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You have a laptop full of tired old PowerPoint presentations that are churned out every time there’s a need for another induction course, fire safety training or anything else that’s boring, but mandatory. You’ve acquired a Learning Management System. Don’t simply re-use existing course content.

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Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Learning

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Text reader converts text to speech automatically. SpokenText SpokenText lets you easily convert text in to speech. Record (English, French, Spanish or German) PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, and web pages, and convert them to speech automatically. Download audio and podcasts. Its fast and easy to use.

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Ten tips to build interactivity

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Articulate – The Storyline product is proving popular but is still closely allied to converting PowerPoint into Flash. Adobe has had to address HTML5 issues and, no doubt, will embrace the issues posed by the up-and-coming Tin Can.

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5 Mistakes eLearning Developers Often Make

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So, you are still using the feature in your eLearning development tool that converts the entire PowerPoint content to eLearning. Let’s look at each proactively. Using eLearning development tools that don’t fit the situation. Before you go “rapid”, know that this is the least favorable rapid eLearning development feature!

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How would you go about converting a face to face course to an eLearning format?

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Cook raised an interesting question at the Instructional Design and eLearning Professionals' Group " How would you go about converting a face to face course to an eLearning format?" Several professionals in the Learning industry want to convert their f2f courses into an eLearning format.

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The gradebook module

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The gradebook module uses a formula to convert scores for activities to an aggregated lesson score at a range from 1 and 100 - and subsequently to a grade (e.g, When combining the activities we can use different weights for different activities. A, B, C, Fail, Pass) depending on how it is setup. Lets see a practical example.

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Interview with Carmen Simon – Part 2

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Over the past five years or so, traffic school content has been converted to online training so that people can complete it online. In any PowerPoint template, I always advise people to use the opposite state in terms of the layout to enhance this 10% slide. Those are some of the worst eLearning courses you have ever seen.