Clive on Learning

JANUARY 29, 2010

However, I’ve had enough experience with 3D worlds to see how they might successfully integrate with other learning and development activities and where they stand out as the best fit for the job. However much you feel 3D worlds will impact on learning and development, there is no question of their relevance and potential importance.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 20, 2011

They require a great deal of expertise to design and develop, are inflexible in the ways in which they can be deployed and are hard to maintain. Large-scale, elaborately crafted, fully-integrated e-learning courses are, in most circumstances and for most of us, a bit of a luxury.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 20, 2009

For $1799 or £1509 the suite will provide you with Captivate 4, Presenter (formerly Breeze), Photoshop CS4, Dreamweaver CS4 (with e-learning interactions added), Soundbooth CS4, Flash Professional CS4 (also with e-learning add-ons), the latest Acrobat and all the goodies needed to tie all the bits together.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 24, 2008

I had thought that, with my extravagant purchases, I was maintaining the Adobe share price all on my own, but the eLearning Guild's latest research report on authoring and development tools proves otherwise. Simulation tools: #1 Captivate (79%); #2 Flash (45%). Animation: #1 Flash (78%). Screen event capture: #1 Captivate (64%).

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 23, 2010

This month’s Big Question on the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog asks what software tools, as learning and development professionals, we should set out to learn. This is hardly a major personal development challenge. On careful reflection, I’d have to say none. Of course there are exceptions.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Their new childcare course, currently being piloted, is composed of an interesting blend of formal and informal approaches: each student has a personalised home page featuring news, bookmarked content, details of friends, 'my discussions', 'my questions' and rss feeds; e-learning materials, developed by Kineo ; formal assessment for a National Vocational (..)

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Rapid development tools are by definition going to adopt a position towards the 'easy-to-use' end of the scale, even though this usually means compromising on functionality. Dragster is a versatile online tool for creating stand-alone, Flash-based drag and drop activities. You can use text boxes as the draggable elements or images.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 31, 2008

One of my clients is considering using PowerPoint as a development tool. Although they will probably convert the PowerPoint to Flash and distribute in this way, they also want to make the PowerPoint files available for users who wish to make modifications to the materials. Convert to Flash (which brings different accessibility issues).

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Clive on Learning

MAY 6, 2010

Today I took part in the inaugural live online session run by the British Institute for Learning and Development (BILD). It used The Open University’s Flash Meeting platform, which was a new one for me.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 20, 2010

I think we can be optimistic about noticeable changes occurring over the next five years in the way that employers organise learning and development: shorter and less highly-structured interventions, a widespread use of enterprise networking tools, and a degree of content sharing in a wide variety of formats.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2007

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for July is 'how should e-learning developers choose their authoring tools given the proliferation of tools on the market?' Online tools tend to be less sophisticated but really do facilitate collaborative development.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Although I have decades of experience using (and at one stage designing) more sophisticated e-learning authoring tools - you know, the highly configurable ones with their own scripting languages - I now find myself turning more and more often to the so-called rapid development tools.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2007

I was interested to see a product like this coming from a developer associated with conventional self-paced e-learning. FlockPod is created in Flash and requires the learner to be online, both of which could pose some limitations, but should not put off the majority of potential users.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I was with the head of e-learning of a multinational enterprise a few weeks ago and he was describing how he intended to develop a series of e-learning programmes to implement a core curriculum across Europe. And unless your developers are multi-lingual, localisation is indeed collaborative.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

We might also be grateful for the modest successes of some other software specialists - those that created the first GUIs, Google, Flash, the MPEG and MP3 algorithms. Do you really understand what makes them tick (to give you a clue, it's not using software tools developed by other programmers)?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 4, 2007

Tools which create media-rich components ( Raptivity , Flash , PowerPoint, Acrobat, Captivate) which can then be inserted into other tools, as opposed to those tools which provide the wrapper and depend on you bringing in the really hot stuff from elsewhere (as with most built-in LMS/LCMS authoring modules).

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 20, 2008

The trouble is, inductive learning doesn't seem to have been what the developers had in mind when they designed the latest generation of rapid e-learning authoring tools. It's easy; I have programmed this sort of question in no time at all in umpteen different languages (BASIC, Pascal, HTML/JavaScript, Flash ActionScript) over the years.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 29, 2009

In an anonymous reply to my posting yesterday on the pirating of PC software, an elearning developer asked "How do real people actually afford/justify purchasing something like the Adobe eLearning Suite?" The ELS is first and foremost a professional toolkit, for those whose career is centred firmly on e-learning development.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2012

There was another reason why the slide metaphor was adopted for so much e-learning and that was Flash. Although Flash windows can be made to scroll, they were never conceived that way. Flash was originally designed to display animations, and these clearly need to be displayed in a fixed size window. Ah, the bleeding edge.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2008

At its simplest you can just export your slides as a Flash movie, along with any existing animations and any slide notes you have. If you want more multimedia, import Flash movies (including Captivate output) and videos onto new slides. Alternatively, you could record a narration using your webcam and play the video in the sidebar.

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