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Creativity within Constraints: When Cost, Resource Scarcity, or Deadlines Make Effective Elearning Seem Out of Reach

The Learning Dispatch

When there’s no instructor, however—when learning is self-directed, asynchronous, and delivered online—there’s a real risk of boring, click-next elearning that barely engages employee attention; training that hardly has a chance of changing behavior. Using Pattern Libraries for Accessible Elearning: Insights from CSUN 2018.

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Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids

Tony Karrer

Captivate , Lectora ), it looks like things are slowly shifting again. To explain this, I need to step back and deal with the fact that terminology around eLearning Patterns is problematic. In my mind, "courseware" is interactive (to some level) instruction run asynchronously. It is asynchronous.

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The Training Manager’s Guide to Accessible Elearning

The Learning Dispatch

Training content developed using rapid authoring tools, such as Articulate Storyline, Trivantis Lectora, and Adobe Captivate, and (often) provided as a click-though, packaged course. And some, like Lectora and SoftChalk (PDF, 2.7 Some elearning authoring software (like Trivantis Lectora) has a built-in accessibility checker.