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Three Takeaways Today

eLearning 24-7

PowerPoint is not E-Learning and shouldn’t be used as your course tool/development – For whatever reason, there are people who have been around online learning for years, who still see PPT as a means for the creation of content – i.e. courses. PPT is boring. No need, PPT is here! No way around it.

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5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

Microsoft has some really nice starter templates to help you organize your learning project. Click here to access Microsoft training templates. After you do a few projects, you’ll feel more comfortable branching out from the templates and applying your own unique approach. Learn from the Experts. Sheldon Swimmer.

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Product Review – Articulate Storyline 2

eLearning 24-7

Templates including ones for layout, quizzes. Transitions, Animations, Views – I am fine using it once, but again, new product-new version, so why I am still seeing PowerPoint within this product to such a point, that TAV are exactly the same as in PPT? It occurred in the templates section. Really missed it there.

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The Latest: Rapid Content Authoring Tool Market

eLearning 24-7

Templates – growing at quick clip. PowerPoint – Ability to integrate or use PPT in your courses. Some vendors push heavily on PPT, implying that a great WBT is really a PPT converted to Flash. Listen, Authorware is dead, so why create a product that is trying to bring it back to life with your own product?

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How to select the right authoring tool

eLearning 24-7

In the authoring tool world: PowerPoint focused authoring tool, Basically you know PPT, love it and want the ability to build within it and then convert your PPT to a Course. In the housing world that would be whether you want a townhouse, apt., condo, house, etc. They are out there, I wouldn’t use one, but they do exist.

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

eLearning 24-7

Templates with some learning objects? Macromedia Authorware and similar products. While some could argue that Authorware was a RCAT, I disagree. PPT or Word to Flash and the end user can add a TOC, some assessments, audio, video, even additional flash learning objects and attachments. Is it PowerPoint converted to Flash?

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Adobe shows off Captivate 4 and the Adobe eLearning Suite

Steve Howard

These are very similar to Flash components and Authorware Knowledge Objects, in that developers are able to create pre-configured logic and visual components which accept parameters when inserted into Captivate. Project Template Do you work with educational designers or subject matter experts who do not typically build content?

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