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Development Tools - Should I Cut Out the Middle Guy?

eLearning Cyclops

It has gotten to a point where some of my courses are all developed in Flash and the e-learning authoring tools (DHTML) have been used more as a "shell" that decompiles it as a SCORM package. So, do I really need to continue using these authoring tools?

DHTML 100
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My e-Learning Toolbox

eLearning Cyclops

It is a glimpse not just into their development tool preferences, but it also provides some reflection into the approaches they take in creating courses. ToolBook authoring tool - this is the DHTML authoring tool used at my company, but prior to this I used TrainerSoft (now Outstart Trainer), which is my preference.

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SCORM Implementation For Mobile Devices

Upside Learning

Also while coding SCORM implementation try to avoid [advanced JavaScript functions (DHTML, regular expressions)] as each browser has varying degree of JavaScript support. Also most mobile device SDKs provides some way of accessing JavaScript methods in html page. But some browsers don’t support it.

SCORM 246
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Development Tools I Would Learn If I Were You - June's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

They provided just enough to make us dangerous with HTML, Flash, Photoshop and Authorware. Keep in mind some may be DHTML output, others create Flash SWFs. HTML/HTML5 : Learning HTML will come in very handy, especially if your WBT tool creates DHTML files, which you may need to edit at times.

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View of eLearning Development Approaches - Ease vs. Power

Tony Karrer

and Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids , I've realized that one of the mental models I use can be roughly summarized by the following picture: where Ease is roughly how easy (cost, time) is it to develop using that approach and Power is the ability of the tool to provide robust, complex learning solutions.

DHTML 100
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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

Many of the blogs I follow are part of the eLearningLearning community. So, I browsed "Tools" by keyword on eLearningLearning.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Open Laszlo Gets Its Own Track and Big Customers for the open source webtop platform

Mark Oehlert

One of the questions that Temkin often has to field is whether Laszlo Webtop uses AJAX, and here is what he says about that: "Yes.Although Ajax means different things to different people, it’sgenerally understood that it relates to the advanced use of JavaScriptand XML to provide browser-based applications that resemble desktopapplications.