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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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Top 10 Authoring Tools for 2017

eLearning 24-7

Ok, with that being done, let me list the vendors who are in the final ten and then break it all down for you. From sims to scenarios to courses of all types, to collaboration, nice set of resources – this product is not for beginners. Not for beginners. Anyone who has hurt a rib, knows the thrill of agony from it.

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State of the Authoring Tool Industry

eLearning 24-7

Bewildered on what is happening, why what is needed isn’t appearing as it should, and how is it possible that something so obvious based on where e-learning is heading, mobile is pushing and future tech is inspiring is lost among so many vendors? And therein lies one of the issues, that is showing up with many, many vendors.

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Summer Course Authoring Tool Rankings – Top Ten

eLearning 24-7

Equation tool – I’ve seen more vendors add this thing – and unless you are in education I can’t see why you would use it. HTML5 output including a PPT converter to HTML5. You can do some things as a beginner but if you are an instructional designer you can take it up a notch. Scenario branching.

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Free L&D webinars for October 2020

Limestone Learning

With business uncertainty at an all-time high, any vendor that’s not on board will get trounced by their competition. PT: PPT Charts and Excel: Data Visualizations That Stand Out from the Crowd Bar charts and pie charts have their place, but they only take you so far. Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, 9 a.m.–10 Thurday, Oct. Thursday, Oct.

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State of the Authoring Tool Industry 2015

eLearning 24-7

Yes there are vendors doing some new stuff, okay many, but a few items are not new, rather they have been around for a long time. SaaS boost – Finally more vendors are on the appropriate path for their consumers; but the big folks are not – why? There I said it and honestly I can’t believe I said it. Want a stunner?

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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

The basic structure of one-way presentations, flying to convention cities, blowing an entire week at a time, and vendors going through the motions but getting few sales is counter to the culture and M.O. Response 9 One conference I went to last year had ALL panels, and all vendors on the panels…nothing but posturing. Response 8.