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Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

eLearning 24-7

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. CourseLab – ADL SCORM certified, no less.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Value of Instructional Designers

Learning Visions

Some of these discussions about tools is similar to the arguments that the main stream media has made about blogs and wikis. 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. 1:32 AM Tom Kuhlmann said.