Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

After my session at ISPI earlier this week, someone commented that what would have really been useful is a list of the top 10 authoring tools in the market. During my presentation, I flashed up on the screen a list of the 122+ tools listed in the Brandon Hall database. of tools used: 39% use four or more tools!

eLearning Guild 100

eLearning Guild eLearning Tools Authoring Report 100

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

Rapid eLearning Tools Satisfaction from the eLearningGuild Research reported Feb 2007 - Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction See also Software Simulation Tools. Of course, they were more looking at PPT conversion tools. Page update Mar 2008.

Rapid eLearning 137

Rapid eLearning eLearning Tools Atlantic Link SCATE 137

mLearning Trends

MARCH 27, 2011

The eLearning Guild’s LS2011 event was well attended and features 50+ vendors and more than 1300 participants from the training and development industry. There were plenty of tools to create interactions (ala Engage-style functionality) as well as define animations and path-based motions which all rendered well in the final outputs.

Authoring 97

Authoring Impatica Flash to HTML5 Conversion Rapid Intake 97

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 31, 2012

For PPT lovers, you can synch video files with PPT with drag and drop. It enables you to upload PPT onto the iPad and present it to people – on the floor, at a location, etc. It enables you to upload PPT onto the iPad and present it to people – on the floor, at a location, etc. Let you in on a little secret.

TechKnowledge 71

TechKnowledge Assessment PPT vendor 71

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Authoring Tools. 11 desktop authoring tools work with Mac OS. 4 desktop authoring tool vendors work with Windows 8. Let’s see Microsoft has only been announcing the coming of Windows 8 for several months, but as usual desktop authoring tools are behind the times. iSpring Pro but it only converts PPT to HTML5.

Association Learning Management System 72

Association Learning Management System vendor Association LMS Rapid Intake 72

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Feature sets – they have to be more than PPT to Flash or add an audio clip and video clip to the course. Again, not every tool below is SaaS based, but at some point, you have to move to the SaaS world, especially if you are offering or saying you do – some type of mobile learning functionality. An additional note.

Authoring Tools 86

Authoring Tools Authoring Flash to HTML5 Conversion Tools 86

eLearning 24-7

JULY 20, 2011

There are 124 authoring tools in my latest directory, of which 30 are SaaS or a combination of desktop and SaaS – which really what is the point of that? Even though more tools are adding the features of collaborative and peer review (more on that in a sec) they are still heavy geared towards a desktop solution. What happened?

Authoring Tools 78

Authoring Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion Authoring Trends 78