E-learning Curve Blog at Edublogs

Prologue: Today’s post was meant to be a short piece about how the e-learning industry is faring in current market conditions, but as I carried out my research for the article, something a little more worrying emerged from the source information.
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About a year ago, I began commenting on the affects of [...]

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I want to know – how do Bersin & Associates define ‘e-learning’? Based upon the press release, collaboration and knowledge-sharing in particular, but also mentoring, coaching, and OTJ training are not categories of e-learning.

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Further my recent post on Adding E-Learning Presentations to Blackboard, Brian S Friedlander was kind enough to comment on my post. He suggested that you could import e-learning presentations and courseware to LMSs like Blackboard as PDFs.

Figure 1. Presenter 7 Publish dialog box
Sure enough, Adobe Presenter 7 does have a ‘Publish to PDF’ output option [...]

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Having only just installed Presenter 7, and while I have published some test presentations locally, I have yet to upload any PDF-formatted content to an LMS. So, I have no idea how well this output type functions in comparison to the more traditional XML, SWF, and HTML-formatted e-learning content package when it’s deployed from an online or networked platform.

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Today’s Question: how do you turn this:

in to this?

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If you’ve read The E-Learning Curve Blog recently, you’ll know that I have been creating quite a number of demos over the last seven weeks or so. Undertaking this activity has inspired me [...]

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Uploading content to an LMS is easy, but it’s not intuitive. Computers are obvious and logical. The logical and obvious approach is to pick through all of the ShockWave Flash (SWF) files, find the largest one (because that contains the content – right?) and use the Browse feature of your LMS to upload the content. This inevitably ends in failure, because there’s more to distributing learning materials online that just the content.

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We’ve all been using Adobe products for years. Even the most non-techie “I-can’t-find-the-Any-key” computer user almost certainly has the Flash Player installed in their browser; if you’re an learning professional of my vintage (30’s) you’ve probably encountered Authorware, Director, and Flash at some point in your career. More recently (as discussed on The E-Learning [...]

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Finally, Adobe have recognized that like graphics, DTP, and digital media producers, e-learning is a significant market vertical for their applications, and have released the Adobe eLearning Suite

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I opened my copy of Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development by William Rice with a high expectation that it would be an informative and practical reference text. Why? I was about to upgrade to Moodle 1.9. Did it meet my expectations?
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Using open source software can be a daunting experience, regardless of your [...]

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I opened my copy of Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development by William Rice with a high expectation that it would be an informative and practical reference text. Why? I was about to upgrade to Moodle 1.9. Did it meet my expectations?
Now read on…
Using open source software can be a daunting experience, regardless of your [...]

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