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Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

eLearning 24-7

Microsoft Word converted to Flash? An alarming rate of “get the content up now, ASAP&# regardless of what it looks like, instructional design is typically tossed out the window, especially when the ID, CD or whomever is tasked to create is handed a stream of documents in Word or PPT or some other form. Simulations only.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Value of Instructional Designers

Learning Visions

This group includes folks from the ADL, IBM, Sun, etc. No needs assessment, no functional spec, no design -- just get that ppt deck going and slap some e-learning together. My article points to the notion of Instructional Designers developing an agreed upon semantic language for defining learning content and events.