" I was either inspired or lucky (you choose) because since then a beta of RapideL-i was announced and then earlier this week I was treated to a sneak preview of a new tool called Unison from Rapid Intake , the makers of Flashform. By comparison, Unison and RapideL-i have different feature sets and very different routes to market, but they join their predecessors in providing the most essential benefits of online authoring, not least easy collaboration amongst those working on the development team. On January 3rd I laid out my e-learning predictions for 2008. MORE >>

Rapid Intake, the guys who gave us ProForm and Unison, announced its new online collaborative course review software, called REVIEW™, that allows any course developer to post a course online and collect and manage course review feedback and comments. The reason I will use the program is its ability to load courses for review that have been developed with different types of e-Learning programs such as Articulate Presenter, Captivate and other Flash-based training. The actual review process rocks. The course loaded quickly and I was able to access it immediately to make review notes. MORE >>

Here’s the quick way to do this if you are using Rapid Intake Unison. Getting a course ready to go with a SCORM LMS can be tricky. MORE >>

Collaborative authoring features in Rapid Intake Unison make it possible for several developers. to work on a course at the same time. These features include automatic saving of changes, a. version history that supports rolling back to earlier versions, the ability to lock changes, and. developer chat. Tips about these and more are in this article! MORE >>

For desktop-based e-learning, it won't have much of an impact either, since Adobe is going to continue to support the Flash player for desktop browsers and almost all e-learning authoring tools publish to Flash already (such as Rapid Intake's collaborative course authoring solution Unison). This morning Adobe stated that it will no longer develop the Flash player for mobile devices in favor of throwing their support behind HTML5 development. For mobile learning it won't have much of an impact. Because of the need for cross-platform compatibility (i.e. MORE >>