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Bridge over troubled authoring tool waters

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Why are some vendors making it impossible? Why are some vendors treating you as a spy or something sinister when you just want to try out the product? You would think that with over 140 authoring tools on the market, vendors would want you to try out their product before dropping any type of cash. Trial by Fire.

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Fears of the Course Authoring Tool Market

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Long has tools such as Studio and Captivate been on the higher side, the same can be said for vendors such as Rapid Intake and dominKnow. Because other vendors are getting into the act as well. What is an equal frightening event is when authoring tool vendors do not even list their pricing on their page. So why the fear?

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Course Authoring Tools for eLearning Developers and the masses

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SCORM compliant learning object generator, customized editing interface, web based media player that works across multiple platforms, video/audio, image slides, text synchronization. The authoring tool vendors will say their products are for everyone. Or the demand from themselves, the vendors. Bottom Line.

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User Friendly or Hype?

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If I am a potential customer, I would expect nothing less to come out of the vendor’s mouth on their product and user friendliness. Some vendors who have failed to deliver, in my opinion, a user friendly system, due to front end or back end (admin side), or sometimes both. If I am vendor, whose product is paid (i.e.

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E-Learning Trade Shows + Product Reviews 4 #TK11

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What I like about conferences is the ability to see the latest products and hear the pitches from the vendors. Yet, for all that do it, their are equal number of vendors who do not. Vendors who hand you a product (trial) and their business card or they just have their items in a bowl and you grab one. NexLearn Simplicity.

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ASTD TechKnowledge 2013, Day 2

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How about – Litmos actually skinning the product themselves – as the majority of vendors do – at no additional charge or more simple click customization options. However there were plenty of vendors who had — NOTHING. The same with LMS administrators. INTERCEPTION AND THEY GO THE WRONG WAY.