Captivate 4 , Captivate tutorials. Late last year, I had blogged about a set of Captivate 3 tutorials on the Adobe website. These were specifically crated for the education industry and most of our readers have found them very useful. This has now been completely refreshed for Captivate 4- with new topics on the key Captivate 4 features. The PDFs are below: Recording and Publishing software simulations. Roundtripping with MS PowerPoint. Scenario Simulations using Captivate. Editing Captivate Projects. Creating Quizzes. Creating dynamic presentations with the new 'Variables'. Audio. Drawing. MORE >>

Thanks to Kineo for pointing me to the Market Update recently released by Ambient Insight which forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 16.3% from 2008 to 2013 for learning technology products and services. The report notes that "the market is favorable for learning technology suppliers, despite, or perhaps because of, the recession." " The report forecasts especially rapid growth for collaborative e-learning, mobile learning, self-paced learning, and simulations and games. The result? Headcount is also being hit as 36% of respondents reported a reduction. MORE >>

Its strange how most TV channels these days have a ticker/ banner scrolling down the bottom of your screen which most people hardly notice. don't think there's a single cricket match in India where the bottom of the screen isn't hijacked by advertisements. This doesn't seem to bother us anymore though. We've just switched ourselves off to these forcible interruptions into our experience. The same goes for news websites and other such resources on the interweb. Take a look at the example below -- this could be just about any website. That's exactly the point. don't want to use that space. MORE >>

With Web 2.0 being the buzz around the Internet, and Wikis, Blogs, Twitter, etc getting mentioned in just about every blog every day (me included), does it ask for a little ‘reflection’? What exactly is meant by the ‘Nature of Online Collaboration‘? Here’s a few links I thought I’d share with you (the original pages [.]. eLearning Blog Wiki MORE >>

I’ve written before about learning portals and how they can be a great way to improve access to learning materials for users. wanted to provide a more in-depth post that shows how you can create your own learning portal using the freely available content management system, WordPress. So, let’s get started… Refresher: What is a portal? This paragraph is from a previous post.). learning portal is a web site that contains links to all different types of learning and training materials for employees at an organization. It may take a little while, but we’ll get there. Good luck! MORE >>