by Joe Ganci
In some ways, the move to mobile involves two steps forward and one step back. How will authoring tools meet the demands of smaller screens, slower processors, slower connections, and easily distracted learners? In addition to his comments about these challenges, Joe looks at coming changes in a number of popular tools.
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by News Editor
[Press Release] Impatica for PowerPoint Version 5 quickly converts PowerPoint content into high- quality online presentations that will play everywhere: on computers, iPhones, iPads and other devices. Impatica’s player uses HTML5, when available, to view these fully animated and narrated slides, but still works when HTML5 support is not available. See it at DevLearn 2011 in Las Vegas!
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by Dave Mozealous
Video Podcasts are growing in popularity among smartphone users. Besides being highly portable, Podcasts are excellent vehicles for mLearning and they are not difficult to create. Here is a complete, concise soup-to-nuts tutorial on how to make and distribute a video Podcast, from a master of the craft!
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by Jeremy Vest
Google+ Hangouts is a video group-chat feature that Google added to its offerings this summer. In addition to video chat for up to 10 people, Hangouts provides most of the features of expensive online meeting Websites. Here are six quick applications that you may find useful as elements of your design inventory.
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by Mary Arnold
Pondering how to create a social media strategy that supports learning? Research suggests that an effective strategy may be simpler than you think.
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by John DiGiantomasso
Instructional design approaches and authoring tools generally embed a certain structure and flow in the resulting eLearning. This creates problems when a designer wants to repurpose content for a different set of learning objectives, or for a different instructional strategy. An extended learning content management system avoids these issues. Read about this concept here!
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by Patti Shank
Last month, Patti offered tips to help you get started choosing the right tools for your authoring needs. This month, she gives you the final secrets to making an excellent selection!
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by Joe Ganci
The eLearning Guild has just published a new research report, Rapid eLearning Authoring. The report provides an analysis of the top seven tools used by thousands of Guild members. Joe Ganci, the report author, offers you a handy table that summarizes the key features of the current versions of those top-seven tools, including best uses and cost.
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by Marc Rosenberg
There are so many myths about eLearning that it is hard to know where to begin. But here are five myths about eLearning design, and the truth to counter each one of them.
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by Alan Rudi
Hybrid education is still in its infancy, but schools that have adopted it say that it shows great promise. Schools from K-12 through graduate level are using the model. Here is an overview of the thought behind hybrid education and of its benefits.
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