Company-wide training modules by a Lead Courseware Developer at a Security Products Corporation. This time it is succeeding because of the price, the voice quality, and the integration with PPT. Some challenging questions are being raised in this month’s Big Question - Voice Over in eLearning. MORE

The ‘notes’ section of a PPT can similarly be utilized to gather client feedback. With the growing popularity and success of e-learning in the corporate circles, the need for high-quality course-ware development is ever-increasing. Many organizations thus prefer the route of developing their course-ware through external resources in order to keep up with the pace of demand and restrictive time-lines. MORE

Grouped slides are treated as sections with sub-pages, making it easy to create a hierarchical menu structure for your courseware. Alternatively PowerPoint files can be linked, so that edits to the source PPT file are reflected in the Captivate project. At the Adobe Learning Summit in San Jose, November 10th, Adobe showed several exciting new features from the next version of Captivate and from the up-coming eLearning Suite. MORE

Use of PowerPoint in rapid content authoring tools – this has been a big irritant of mine, since the days when PPT first made its appearance in rapid content authoring tools. Some vendors use chapter-page approach with PPT, but there are plenty who do not (why?). Studio always has done a great job with their PPT integration because they use the right terminology, and offer a TOC, offering non-linear for those that want it. MORE

Now, if you go to a site whereas they only offer you micro-learning courses (you pay for that) and they give you their LMS, that is one thing – they are a subset of the LMS industry – as a courseware LMS. . With the days of August just ahead of us, or the dogs of August, I can never remember the saying, it is time to bring many of the readers of this blog with some interesting tidbits that I find of interest and that you may or may not be aware of. MORE

In my view, tools like DocBook XML and XMLmind XML Editor are excellent primary content creation and generation applications; they provide courseware developers with a familiar UI in which to create their content, while retaining the flexibility and interoperability of an XML-based structure. MORE

Here's a thought! I wonder what it would look like if I posted to my blog using the little email feature at the bottom of an item in Google Reader? Okay.here it goes. If this works, then check out read this cool post by Christy Tucker reviewing a great presentation at Conference on Distance Learning and Teaching. MORE

The companies we recommend (and use ourselves) are well established and have extensive product knowledge and creation experience under their belts; therefore they deliver quality courseware authoring products! #2: Additionally, you can change tools based on the requirements of each particular piece of learning content you’re looking to create (PPT conversion, video based, mobile compatibility, etc). #5: MORE

When e-learning was first gaining momentum (about 15 to 20 years ago), building courseware required some degree of programming capability: HTML and JavaScript to build a primary code base, ActionScript in Flash to create interactive objects and content, and a good knowledge of SCORM standards. MORE