by Bill Brandon
Representatives from the most influential standards organizations in the e-Learning industry will meet September 7 and 8, 2010, to discuss harmonization issues of the various Computer Managed Instruction (CMI) specifications.
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by Jeff Batt
You can build branching soft skill simulations that play like a game. The simulations you build can have multiple outcomes. Here is a five-step tip for creating these in ProForm Rapid eLearning Studio and Unison Collaborative Course Authoring.
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by Mike Dickinson
Designing compliance training can be a great challenge, on many levels. Blended learning, including classroom, games, online elements, and scenarios, is an excellent way to deal with this, but creating it is not necessarily simple or easy. Here is the story of how one (very small) training department backed into a highly effective solution over three years of effort.
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by Tom Hall
SumTotal Systems ToolBook 10.5 adds more authoring support for mobile devices and geolocation, and enhancements for Section 508 compliance. Here is a comprehensive guide to ToolBook, including how to customize interactions and create branching, use the Actions Editor, the Simulation Editor, and the Quiz Summary feature, and deploy ToolBook content to an LMS.
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by Brian Miller
Many organizations continue to struggle with fundamental obstacles that prevent them from implementing effective asynchronous e-Learning strategies. Some of these barriers will invariably lead to poor strategies for learning in virtual worlds or on mobile devices. Here's what you can do to improve effectiveness in a tough situation.
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by Jane Bozarth
“I wish that the ‘e-Learning’ business had started with this book … before online training as an industry managed to replicate the very worst elements of the traditional classroom experience. I wish this book as a starter gift: a new person starting with this would not accept flying lines of text supported by word-for-word narration as anything resembling a learning experience.”
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by Joe Fournier
A new crop of tools claims to make anyone an e-Learning content producer. One such tool, from Seattle-based Impresys, is DemoMate. As its name suggests, its main mission is to support interactive software demonstrations. DemoMate started as a software sales tool, but it is now finding uses in production of training applications.
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by Joe Ganci
Case-based scenarios provide the e-Learning designer and developer with far more instructional power than the boring linear lessons that are all too common in e-Learning. But you can’t create these with PowerPoint, and many designers don’t have the skills to create them in ActionScript or Flash. Here’s a review of SmartBuilder, a tool more powerful than PowerPoint and easier to use than Flash.
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by Tanya Seidel
Smartphones provide a great means for delivering e-Learning, especially just-in-time training. But, to ensure the content is usable, e-Learning authors must design and create the content with the device in mind.
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by Joe Ganci
Raptivity (Harbinger Knowledge Products Inc.) allows designers to create and customize over 225 types of interactions. Interactions are Flash SWF files and can play independently or within any authoring environment that accepts SWF files. You don’t use Raptivity to build whole courses, rather, you build rich interactivity with it, one interaction at a time.
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