Challenge to Learn

MAY 3, 2013

I’m interested in agile development because we develop the easygenerator software in an agile way. I like this; it will bring a lot of the advantages of agile software development to your e-Learning development. It gives huge advantages over the classic ‘waterfall’ models. There is a lot more that can be used.

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Challenge to Learn

APRIL 18, 2016

All software and data will move to the cloud sooner or later. All the software lives in the cloud and is maintained and cared for by the vendor. Software is being improved all the time. If you work with installed software on a PC there will be updates once or twice a year. No IT hustle. Always up to date.

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 19, 2013

She researches and writes about trends in a variety of software verticals, with a particular focus on learning management software. Create a list of your must-have and nice-to-have features and have those handy as you demo different software products. Web based or On-premises – Decide which type of software you need.

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Challenge to Learn

MAY 24, 2016

No installed software. This gives a lot of hassle with your IT department, it will give you issues (and cost) on updating the software but most important: All software will move to the cloud. If the system of you are considering does not support this: don’t buy it!

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Challenge to Learn

MAY 24, 2016

No installed software. This gives a lot of hassle with your IT department, it will give you issues (and cost) on updating the software but most important: All software will move to the cloud. If the system of you are considering does not support this: don’t buy it!

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Authoring Tools Expert LMS Saba 177

Challenge to Learn

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Note: With open source software you share the source code of your software with everybody and everybody can contribute to it. As a user you are free to use the software without paying license fees (see GPL license ). The most successful open source software product in the learning field is Moodle. Business perspective.

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Challenge to Learn

JANUARY 7, 2019

The average for cloud-based software is around 30 and the best-performing software companies score around 55. We also see significant growth among the customers who joined us before this year. Quality and service. There is more to success than just the concept. Our product has scored an NPS of 53.

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Brandon Hall Easygenerator CLO DevLearn 114

Challenge to Learn

JULY 14, 2016

Easygenerator is eLearning software with a very specific focus on people who do not have an e-Learning background. Experience in selling technology / software is a big asset. Easygenerator provides cloud-based e-Learning authoring software. International sales representative. At least 2 years of relevant online sales experience.

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Easygenerator Sales Authoring Tools Corporate eLearning 100

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 1, 2014

But I’m afraid that his program iMindMap is not the best software around, that title goes to MindNode. On his website he says his goal is ‘designing intuitive and consumer friendly software’ Well he did. Tony Buzan claims to have invented them. I know it because in the past period I have tried lots of them.

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Challenge to Learn

APRIL 5, 2011

In software development we have the same problem. We do our software development at easygenerator through an agile method and I love it! From my experience in software development and from reading I did I got convinced that this is an interesting approach to explore. We need to get faster and more iterative.

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Agile Instructional Design ADDIE Easygenerator 184

Challenge to Learn

MAY 11, 2011

Surprisingly the most interesting parts where not about Software as a Service, but about marketing. He wants to move software from to PC to the cloud. His ‘No Software’ campaign had a simple message that people could relate to (nobody likes to buy software, install it, configure it and maintain it).

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Sun Oracle Software Attention 154

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 15, 2016

It switched from service to mainly software. e-Learning software like Easygenerator make it possible for everybody to create e-Learning without any prior knowledge. We have seen similar developments in other industries. The launch of Desktop publishing programs in the eighties changed a whole industry. For video there are two reasons.

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Challenge to Learn

JANUARY 19, 2011

We do software development through an agile approach. I knew a bit about agile software development, but I was never really a part of the process. Software was often developed through a waterfall model. In the past two weeks we started working on the newest version of easygenerator. Image from wikipedia.

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Challenge to Learn

AUGUST 15, 2011

But we still need time to design and develop great quality software and guard our own direction and development lines. We use an agile software development method (see older blog for more detail), this means that our developers work on new functionality for two weeks and deliver working software after each sprint.

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Strategy Develop Masie Easygenerator 154

Challenge to Learn

DECEMBER 20, 2015

Specialized, complex and expensive software allowed them to create bespoke eLearning solutions. This means these changes affect eLearning software companies like Easygenerator before they will affect the eLearning users. This new web based tool is our third generation of eLearning software. What is happening? Really cool.

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Authoring Tools Easygenerator Knowledge CD-ROM 100

Challenge to Learn

AUGUST 28, 2011

This is why I like agile software development so much. In the past I created a lot of online help systems, often for terrible software. Now I create software and I hope that we can make a difference. The best way to solve this problem is to create software yourself, software that works for you.

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Authoring Tools Easygenerator Write Blog Culture 186

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 23, 2021

Experiment We develop our software in an agile way with a new release of the product every week. Most things we do are new, and we know we can do them better. We want every employee to challenge the status quo if they think we can improve on it. Small steps — small iterations—are key.

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Easygenerator Specialist Agile Market 148

Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The publication software will determine, based on the device and screen size where to place content on the screen, so it will fit that screen. This is more a like a form that you fill in and the template you choose in combination with the responsive software will determine where to put your elements.

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DevLearn Easygenerator Instructional Design Authoring 114

Challenge to Learn

MAY 27, 2019

We know that the software must be so intuitive that anyone can log in and, without any training, can start creating learning material. One of them is the creation of learning content. Facilitating this is the core role of my company Easygenerator. We provide a hassle-free authoring platform for them to share knowledge effortlessly.

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Expert Effectiveness Easygenerator Create 229

Challenge to Learn

MAY 29, 2013

For example with the goal ‘the course should run on all mobile devices’ the team could come back with the remark that given the time and financial restraints they can do it on IOS and Android only or they need more budget and time, or that they can do it if they have special software available.

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Agile eLearning Developer Culture Instructional Design 221

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 15, 2016

It switched from service to mainly software. e-Learning software like Easygenerator make it possible for everybody to create e-Learning without any prior knowledge. We have seen similar developments in other industries. The launch of Desktop publishing programs in the eighties changed a whole industry. For video there are two reasons.

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Search Compliance Training LMS SCORM 120

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We use it at Easygenerator to develop our software. You can apply the lessons learned from agile software development to eLearning development as well. For our software development we use Balsamiq it creates simple but interactive mock-ups that add a lot to your words. I love agile development.

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Agile eLearning Developer Tips Easygenerator 100

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

It does for cloud based software what Google Analytic does for web sites. After your mock-up sessions we apply the changes to our software. A sprint is a term from agile software developing. So I decided to capture these lessons learned in this post and apply them to eLearning development. Find your weak spots.

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Authoring Tools Lesson Easygenerator eLearning 100

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 28, 2014

Easygenerator is the only e-Learning authoring software that works this way. In the new web edition o f easygenerator you can’t create any content or questions without creating a learning objective first. The idea is that we help people in this way to create better courses.

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Learning Objects Learning Objectives Authoring Tools Easygenerator 184

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

E-Learning software for non-experts needs to be easy and intuitive to use. First and foremost, it is of importance that the authoring tool has no learning curve. In other words, your learners need an intuitive platform for developing and deploying content.

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Instructional Design Roles Instructional Instruction 257

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

We have added the Dyslexie font to our e-Learning authoring software Easygenerator this week, so you can check it out in Easygenerator (In the design tab) as well. Here is a video about the font that contains more details: You can use this font for free for home use or buy a license for educational or corporate usage.

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 2, 2016

We added a really cool feature to our eLearning software Easygenerator this week, the “Review option” You can now invite anyone (they do not need a subscription) to your course by sharing a link and they can view the course in any browser.

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Easygenerator Course Authoring Images 100

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 22, 2012

Software and complex algorithms will do this for us. I believe that the software will improve and will become better in selecting information for us and present it to us in a coherent way. This leads him to the conclusion that we should stop making e-Learning courses and focus on aggregating and curation information.

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Easygenerator Music Instructional Design Emergent 157

Challenge to Learn

JANUARY 2, 2013

Why Easygenerator will launch a free edition of her authoring software. I believe a better way is the agile approach that comes from software development. In this post I will have a look at 2012 based on the top 10 post of this blog. The top 10 is: A new metaphor for e-Learning. Food for thought: 50 Educational thinkers.

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Easygenerator Blackboard Instructional Design ADDIE 185

Challenge to Learn

JUNE 22, 2011

You have software that works like a human neural network. By doing this over and over you train the software in recognizing the patterns. Neural networks might be able to help us in that direction. The basis is simple. It contains a number of neurons that can calculate outcomes (such as recognition of patterns).

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Network Innovation Easygenerator Pattern 154

Challenge to Learn

JANUARY 29, 2012

I order to make it more complete I now added principles from Agile (Scrum) software development and my ideas about a new learning metaphor. I have continued to work on this and now I have a new version. In the earlier version I combined didactic principles with a management theory.

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Agile Theory Easygenerator DevLearn 179

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 13, 2011

When a task is performed using software there is a possibility to connect the learning nuggets to the context-sensitive help. When new software is introduced this is often supported by e-Learning, most of the times by a simulation where people can learn how to perform their designated tasks in the new system.

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Performance Support Easygenerator Simulations Press 170

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

At easygenerator we develop our software in an Agile way and it works wonders for us (I wrote about this in an earlier post ). I do believe that all waterfall methods will fail in this and that we need to turn to other methodologies. I believe in the AGILE approach.

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Blended Learning Agile Develop Easygenerator 170

Challenge to Learn

JULY 15, 2013

In this post I describe the method of Impact mapping that will help you do that for software development, there is a clear link with the action mapping approach for elearning by Cathy More. Part of the growing up from eLearning is that it becomes part of the business and therefore must contribute to the business goals.

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Agile eLearning Developer Develop Instructional Design 193

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 8, 2016

It is software that you can use to create e-Learning modules, quizzes or assessments. These tools live in the cloud, so you do not need to install any software. In this post I will give a global overview of different types of e-Learning authoring tools and some questions that you can ask yourself. What is an e-Learning authoring tool?

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 30, 2014

But I found out that I was often creating fixes for bad software and I felt that the solution should be ‘better software’ instead of more online help. So only when learning is the best way to achieve that goal, you should consider it. I worked in the online help industry (EPSS) for many years. With learning you have the same problem.

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Guide Solution Easygenerator Performance Support 198

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Often we are hindered and not supported by all the software and hardware we have to our disposal. One of my former companies made on-line help systems and authoring software for them. Maybe my why is more that I feel that we don’t really benefit from the possibilities our technology offers us.

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Innovation Easygenerator Sound Apple 205