am mindful that I'm not focussing on elearning-only situations with my examples and that's deliberately so. I'm guessing that if you can use your camera effectively in a life situation, the ability to do so for elearning will come automatically. equipment photography lrnchat design instructional design cameras elearningBetween the last post and today, I had a great time at Thattekad - one of India's finest bird sanctuaries down south. can't say it was the best photography tour - grey weather, rain and dark clouds never make for a good mix. Simple? Simple? However at f/5.6, MORE >>

Geared toward e-learning developers and instructional designers. Authoring Tools for developers. 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. elearning maker - another product form e-doceo; screenwriting, storyboards, media inserts, selection and moving of elements plus more; a beginner could use some of the features, but a developer has some additional capabilities and flexibilities. documentary maker and iPhone/iPad/iPod touch developer kit. MORE >>

Bryan Chapman from the Chapman Alliance informed me this morning about the completion of a study they started last month to collect data about the time and cost of custom elearning development. The study categorizes custom elearning into 3 levels as below: Level. Level 1 eLearning (Basic). NOTE: PowerPoint-to-eLearning often falls into this category. Level 2 eLearning (Interactive). Level 3 eLearning (Advanced). They had asked about the time it takes to develop content at each of these levels. The report is available for download here. MORE >>

believe that an agile approach will bring a lot of benefits to e-Learning development. I’m interested in agile development because we develop the easygenerator software in an agile way. believe if you translate this to e-Learning development, it will change not only the way we create e-Learning courses, but also the courses itself. In the third chapter they have a look at what ‘good’ eLearning should be, I quote: “Concise, effective learning events, whether delivered through e-Learning or not, are meaningful, memorable, and motivational. MORE >>

'I planned to write this second post on agile eLearning development about the backlog and estimations. ELearning. How does this apply to eLearning? It is also a very different attitude to planned development. The developers will commit to these user stories and build them in short sprints (periods of one or two weeks) and then they will demo them. The goal of the demo is for the development team to show how they solved the user story within the requirements. Post 2: Agile eLearning development: business goals and road map. MORE >>