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My e-Learning Toolbox

eLearning Cyclops

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. Adobe Flash - creating interactive elements, including animation, games, immersive learning simulations, etc. Adobe Fireworks - editing graphics.

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Award Nominee Reveals His eLearning Authoring Toolkit [Guest Post]

eLearning Weekly

Larry Ober has been nominated as Best eLearning Designer in the Maestro eLearning Awards , dubbed the OSCARS of the eLearning industry. What follows is an interview between Steve and the award’s organizers, Maestro eLearning. How did you get your start with eLearning design?

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Development Tools - Should I Cut Out the Middle Guy?

eLearning Cyclops

Over the years, I have used ToolBook, Trainersoft, and even Dreamweaver with Coursebuilder. Almost every course involved using Flash for interactive elements (animations, games, quizzes, simulations, video, etc.). For more interactive elements, I used Flash and imported the SWFs into Authorware.

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

eLearning Cyclops

learn today in order to be a valuable eLearning professional in 2015." learn today in order to be a valuable eLearning professional in 2015." Games : We are already seeing more and more games in e-learning and I think that will increase even more in the next five years. Social/informal learning: Microblogging (e.g.

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Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids

Tony Karrer

Authorware , Toolbook ) to the new generation of WBT authoring tools (e.g., To explain this, I need to step back and deal with the fact that terminology around eLearning Patterns is problematic. Keywords: eLearning Trends , eLearning Resources Captivate , Lectora ), it looks like things are slowly shifting again.

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A Brief Historical Look at Corporate Training

Litmos

It was a time of Disco , bell bottom pants, lava lamps, leisure suits, big hair (women), video game arcades, main frame computers and PLATO. One of the first educational games made for the Apple II came in 1978, a year after the personal computer launched. And yes, it’s THAT game: The Oregon Trail. SCORM, and the SaaS based LMS.

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What Do We Mean When We Say HTML5?

The Learning Circuits

So what’s an elearning designer—or developer—to do? But HTML output that you can create with tools like Lectora and ToolBook is usually so… static. You can build lots of other games , as well. Most elearning designs aren’t going to cause the HTML5 stack to break a sweat. Sit this one out? Change jobs? Probably not.