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Award Nominee Reveals His eLearning Authoring Toolkit [Guest Post]

eLearning Weekly

Several years ago we engaged a vendor to create three eLearning modules for a new product launch. So I offered to create the updates myself, if they would pay for authoring software. Since then, I have created numerous eLearning modules, games, assessments, and other content. How did you get your start with eLearning design?

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What Do We Mean When We Say HTML5?

The Learning Circuits

But because there are a lot of other technologies commonly used to create rich experiences on the web these days (such as CSS3 and JavaScript ), those get wrapped up into the the abbreviation “HTML5” in colloquial speech. But HTML output that you can create with tools like Lectora and ToolBook is usually so… static.

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A Brief Historical Look at Corporate Training

Litmos

Users wanted to create their own programs without needing to know programming and thus, the authoring tool was born. Hypercard and Authorware both launched in 1987, making it easy to create multi-media programs. What you could produce was crude by today’s standards, but it gave anyone the ability to create educational programs.

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mLearning Content Types - Level 5: Courseware

mLearning Trends

As with elearning, HTML provides a platform to create content from the simplest of page-turners to a highly interactive learning experience. Hot Lava Mobile ® from OutStart or ToolBook from SumTotal), great care must be taken to optimize all content to reduce file size, thus reducing the time and expense needed to deploy these modules.

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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? means to the organization, they created a solution that was as much a research project as it was a learning solution. It was terrible! It was a major step back. I know this doesn’t make sense.

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Confused of Brighton

Clive on Learning

In the 1980s came TenCore, Wicat, Microtext (in the UK, for the BBC Micro) and (modesty does not preclude me from mentioning) one that I created myself called ProCAL. Applications you install on you computer (all those mentioned above except Atlantic Link) as opposed to online services (Atlantic Link, Mohive , Alto ).

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Tools for Creating Mobile-Friendly eLearning Courses

OpenSesame

Companies are increasingly interested in creating mlearning material – elearning courses designed to work on mobile devices. We’ve previously shared our guide for best elearning authoring tools , and are now supplementing with our tool guide for creating mobile ready learning courses. SumTotal ToolBook .