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Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

eLearning 24-7

People who are not WBT instructional designers or content developers or have a deep background in either field and are now handed off the task of creating content/courses. Instructional designers who come from the paper based development or the creation of content for instructor led training. RCAT Categories.

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

Current learning delivery channels primarily ILT classroom and ILT online as well as a fair amount of self-paced e-learning. Goals pretty evenly spread among rapid e-learning (consumption and development), reduce costs, support informal learning, improve productivity. Nearly everyone dispersed.

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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. They think that only the "official" people have the right or expertise to produce good content. Some of the SMEs do more of the direct content development than others. 1:32 AM Tom Kuhlmann said.