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E-learning Curve Blog is Michael Hanley's elearning blog about skills, knowledge, and organizational development using web-based training and technology in education

E-Learning Authoring Tools Characterized

July 28th, 2009 · No Comments

E-Learning authoring tools are part of a larger organizational infrastructure and learning ecosystem which support the delivery and management of learning.

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Tags: e-learning

E-Learning Authoring Tools Guide 2009 Released: Some Meditations on the Nature of Information

July 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments

Brandon Hall have released a comprehensive guide called Authoring Tool KnowledgeBase 2009 A Buyer’s Guide to the Best E-Learning Content Development Applications

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Tags: authoring tools · content · content authoring · content delivery · content development · e-learning · educational media · information resource · mobile device · use of elearning · webtop authoring tools

Adobe eLearning Suite Review on BDLD

April 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Donald Clark has very comprehensively reviewed the new Adobe eLearning Suite (eLS) on his always interesting and informative Big Dog, Little Dog blog.

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Tags: adobe · authoring tools · e-learning · e-learning development · e-learning toolkit · elearning content

Shooting Video for E-Learning Use – eLearning Guild

March 31st, 2009 · No Comments

The eLearning Guild have just published an informative primer called Making a Demonstration Video for E-Learning Use.

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Tags: e-learning · e-learning industry · e-learning toolkit · flash · principle of demonstration · video · video podcast

Macintosh Rapid E-Learning Authoring Software

February 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Is there a rapid elearning or screencasting production tool for the Mac?

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Tags: Camtasia · Mac · REL · authoring tools · content authoring · e-learning · rapid elearning

Adding E-Learning Presentations to Blackboard

January 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments

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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Adobe (finally) release eLearning Suite

January 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: adobe · authoring tools · best practise · content authoring · content delivery · content development · e-learning · e-learning development · e-learning industry · e-learning toolkit · flash

SlideShare makes PowerPoint a little more Web 2.0-friendly

December 17th, 2008 · No Comments

If you’re a regular (and dedicated) reader of The E-Learning Curve Blog, you’ll recall that in did a compare / contrast between authorSTREAM and SlideShare some months back.  At the time I concluded:
So which service is better? Well, I guess that comes down to WIIFM – what’s in it for me. The broad sweep of [...]

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Tags: e-learning

Guest lecturing tonight….

November 27th, 2007 · No Comments

This evening I’m giving a lecture on the topic of “Rapid E-Learning and E-Learning Authoring Tools” at the National College of Ireland.I’ll post my notes here tomorrow.I’m also going to initiate a series of “how to’s” about e-learning content development using those tools of our trade, with an initial focus on Adobe Captivate.

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Tags: adobe captivate · content · lecture · rapid elearning · tutorials