20 Articles match "eLearning Developer"

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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
This is the first of 4 Personal Learning Network reports on some lessons I have learned lately through blogs I follow in Google Reader . As an Instructional Designer and eLearning developer, many of my personal development goals revolve around improving my visual design skills. While “the look” of an eLearning course is a crucial element, it is also one of the areas I am weakest in. This PLN report highlights a couple of blog posts found through Google Reader that are helping me to improve my visual design skills.
 
Monday, June 15, 2009
Elearning development tools: only Adobe? Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). The reason was simple– it was an easier way to achieve the multimedia integration needed to deliver engaging content over variety of media (standalone CD based and then transitioning to web based).
 
Monday, June 15, 2009
Elearning development tools: only Adobe? Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). The reason was simple– it was an easier way to achieve the multimedia integration needed to deliver engaging content over variety of media (standalone CD based and then transitioning to web based).
 

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I've been told recently that one of the things that people like most about my blog is the cool new tools I find and share with the eLearnDev community. Well, here's the motherload of all developer tool lists compliments of Mashable.com.... Let me know if you find something cool and use it for an elearning project. Enjoy!
Xerte 2.0 is open-source, released under the GNU Public License for the benefit of the wider elearning developer community. Having established a robust application and a growing community of users, Xerte is in an excellent position to be a successful open-source project. People are Saying... "...;...another eLearning tool done right is Xerte" Andrew Chambers, University of New South Wales, Australia "...
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?" He'd tried open source and free software but had to admit that, as far as e-learning development software was concerned, "Adobe is still king and will remain so for our foreseeable future.
eLearning developer, blogger, web developer 18/10 @Amanda_Ritter Amanda Ritter Head of Business Studies, Toorak College, Mount Eliza, Australia 7/10...
As I'm thinking about it - likely it's a treasure trove for anyone starting out being an eLearning developer / designer. This is what life is really like. This is what you face. This is how they handle it....
Adobe continues to illustrate (pun?) this trend with the new Adobe TV site. The line between marketing and education truly is becoming blissfully blurred. If you use Adobe products (and as an eLearning developer, you almost certainly do), have a look at the new Adobe TV site...Adobe unveiled its new Adobe TV site today, offering a variety of video-based instructional sessions (with real talking heads!
Either let me listen or let me read; don’t expect that I can successfully do both. This may be a “no duh” argument to many of you, but it’s exactly what our big-dollar eLearning development vendor often creates for us (my organization, to my dismay, does outsource some of our development work - despite my protests.... Is there such a thing as good narration and bad narration? Of course. A poor-quality narration is obviously a buzzkill.
Developing an elearning resource that’s just as good, means matching the design and formatting of the resource to the medium that’s chosen, whether it is text, image, video, animation, interactive or involving all of these....
Adobe eLearning Suite: is it worth it | Clive on Learning "n 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?
I don't think this is the emotional response the instructional designer or eLearning developer had in mind. I was dismayed by my reaction. What caused it? The eLearning Developer took time to create these tutorials and worked very hard to make the tutorials themselves very user friendly so the student could focus on the material.... Why? Here's what I think: 1) Audience - trying to please multiple audiences means that you please no one (best case) or confuse them (worst case). JM's tutorial had a distinct audience - the university's end user.