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e-Learning Authoring Tools Crash Course -- Follow Up

Learning Visions

The list does include older tools like Authorware, which are no longer being supported and definitely missing a tool or two. Michael Hanley provides a great resource to the eLearning community with his ongoing review of open source tools. Michael Hanley's E-Learning Curve Blog.

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User Friendly or Hype?

eLearning 24-7

In today’s market there is no reason to buy a product that requires you to do a full customization, either on the front end, back end or entire system, unless – you decided to go with an open source solution such as Moodle or Drupal, where you need that extensive customization. If I am vendor, whose product is paid (i.e.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

And the first experiences as you tried to move your Authorware, IconAuthor or Toolbook course to run using their new web delivery solution? A few other LMS predictions - The bottom end of the market will continue to be eaten away by open source solutions and hosted open source solutions. It was terrible!

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The big question: choosing tools

Clive on Learning

If it's an e-learning tutorial that you're after, including the usual mix of multimedia and interactions, then you have to make an important choice, between tools that you install on your desktop and online tools: Desktop tools ( Flash , Authorware , Lectora , etc.) For an open source alternative, try EXE.

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Using Silverlight/Expression Blend for eLearning Development

Upside Learning

Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). The open source implementation – Moonlight for Linux – is still in development. Elearning development tools: only Adobe? This article has the comparison figures.

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Using Silverlight/Expression Blend for eLearning Development

Upside Learning

Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). The open source implementation – Moonlight for Linux - is still in development. Elearning development tools: only Adobe? This article has the comparison figures.

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The Latest: Rapid Content Authoring Tool Market

eLearning 24-7

Listen, Authorware is dead, so why create a product that is trying to bring it back to life with your own product? Think marketplace – whether it is free – created by the vendor or links to widget directories to use in your product – i.e. open source or APIs or an exchange. Peer Review – Gaining speed.