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The big question: choosing tools

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If it's an e-learning tutorial that you're after, including the usual mix of multimedia and interactions, then you have to make an important choice, between tools that you install on your desktop and online tools: Desktop tools ( Flash , Authorware , Lectora , etc.)

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Confused of Brighton

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Firstly, I've been doing some more work on the script for The 30-minute masters which, if you remember, aims to teach the essentials of instructional design to subject matter experts in no more than 30 minutes. Two situations recently have got me thinking about e-learning authoring tools.

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The power of pictures - part 3

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This time it was a 'conversation with' session with a group of instructional design students. Basically, they came up with the questions, I did the answers, we debated a bit, the whole lot was videoed, edited, converted to Flash video, assembled into an FAQ using Articulate Engage and then uploaded to the course website.

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Still up, up and away

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We might also be grateful for the modest successes of some other software specialists - those that created the first GUIs, Google, Flash, the MPEG and MP3 algorithms. The only problem is they have no skills and so they've sent to Europe for the very best brains (sorry North American readers).

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Whatever happened to inductive learning?

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It's easy; I have programmed this sort of question in no time at all in umpteen different languages (BASIC, Pascal, HTML/JavaScript, Flash ActionScript) over the years. and (3) ways to provide helpful feedback for each possible input - and in a simple multiple-choice question, that means for every possible choice.

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New directions in self-study e-learning: the return of scrolling

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There was another reason why the slide metaphor was adopted for so much e-learning and that was Flash. Although Flash windows can be made to scroll, they were never conceived that way. Flash was originally designed to display animations, and these clearly need to be displayed in a fixed size window.

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