The biggest problem facing the industry in the past few years are the lack of course authoring tools for e-learning developers and instructional designers. Flash course development toolkit - provides the source code, features include ability to load your movies, creates a table of contents and provides complete navigation control. Course Authoring Tools for the masses. Add documents, materials including ability to attach to courses. One will be named – Best Course Authoring Tool of 2012. Tools these days come in three flavors. Geared towards the masses. MORE >>

This quick course is a guided tour (also a marketing piece) that shows how to order supplies from the customer’s portal. View the course. Tags: Courses Featured Portfolio course Flash It begins with a brief company introduction and then tours the product portal. MORE >>

The book “ Essentials of Online Course Design ” from Majorie Vai and Kristen Sosulski is one I have heard about from a few people recently, and one I felt would be worth reading, and at a reasonable £22 from Routledge it’s a fair investment … not to mention the accompanying companion website. The book is described as a “fresh, thoughtfully designed, step-by-step approach to online course development.” Building the course Foundation: Outcomes, Syllabus, and Course Outline. Creating the Course Structure: Online Lessons. MORE >>

Of late, many of our clients have asked us to develop courses for deployment over PCs but which can also be viewed over the iPad. While the demand for HTML5 courses is yet to catch up, the demand is growing stronger nevertheless. Claro comes complete with layout themes to get you started quickly, and a robust set of in-tool authoring features to help you create mobile learning courses. Mobile Learning ipad mLearning Publish Courses For iPads Rapid Authoring Rapid Authoring ToolsThis hardly comes as a surprise given that the iPad dominates the worldwide tablet market. MORE >>

It wasn’t until later, after further rumination, that I realized the better answer to the director’s question is, “Throw out the course catalog!” . Like HRD departments in many large organizations, each year they offer a long list of courses and programs that have all of the current buzz words in their titles. have no doubt that her department delivers excellent, world-class courses and programs. And I’m sure employees enjoy the courses and even say that the knowledge and skills will be very useful to them in their work. Can we throw out the course catalog? MORE >>