Posts tagged ‘development tools’
What feature is missing from your e-learning development tool?
Posted Tuesday, January 26th, 2010.
Filed under e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Flash, Articulate, development tools, e-learning, e-learning tools, HTML, JavaScript, Lectora
I have some simple questions I’d love to get feedback on.
I’m curious about what people are looking for in their e-learning authoring tools, specifically:
What feature is your current tool missing that you would love to see implemented? Support for team collaboration? Support for themes or custom CSS styling? Support for language localization? A [...]
The pipwerks forum is dead, long live the new eLearning Technology and Development Google Group!
Posted Sunday, March 8th, 2009.
Filed under General, e-learning with the tags development tools, e-learning, Google, SWFObject
I’d like to say thank you to all the people who posted in the pipwerks forum, and invite you to join me in the new eLearning Technology and Development group.
I’d also like to ask anyone and everyone who develops e-learning to drop by and sign up for the eLearning Technology and Development group. Ask questions — lots of questions — and let’s see if we can get a good community going!
Lines in the sand
Posted Friday, March 28th, 2008.
Filed under e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Flash, development tools, e-learning, opinion, rapid prototyping, standards
Being an idealist, I eagerly bought into what was being covered in grad school. I believed (and still do, to a point) that every project should follow ADDIE or a similar model. C’mon, it makes sense, doesn’t it? The line in the sand had been drawn: skip these principles at your own peril. Now that I’ve spent a few years working full-time as an instructional designer-slash-e-learning developer, I’ve learned first-hand that the instructional design ideals taught in grad school are quickly thrown out the window when you get a “real” job.
Development standards for e-learning… a starting point
Posted Thursday, February 7th, 2008.
Filed under e-learning, web design and development with the tags accessibility, best practices, development tools, e-learning, How-to, opinion, standards, web design and development
Understanding that we should be using standards and best practices throughout e-learning development, the question becomes “what standards and best practices should we follow?”
Here’s my attempt at outlining some basics.
I’m 100% positive I’ve missed a few things, and I’m pretty sure not everyone will agree with my statements. Why not join in and add your two cents?
Why don’t more e-learning developers use standards?
Posted Monday, February 4th, 2008.
Filed under e-learning, web design and development with the tags accessibility, development tools, e-learning, SCORM, standards
I’m proposing we create a community-defined set of simplified e-learning development standards that can be viewed more as ‘rules of thumb’ than law.
Rapid Intake: Where are the standards?
Posted Monday, February 4th, 2008.
Filed under e-learning, web design and development with the tags development tools, e-learning, opinion, Rant, rapid intake, standards, web design and development
Today Rapid Intake announced a new service named Unison. Out of curiosity, I perused the Rapid Intake site to read more about Unison. [...] I certainly don’t mean to beat up on whoever designed their site, but as a company whose business is publishing web-based documents, this website gives me zero confidence in the quality of their product.
Building e-learning courses: Should we use e-learning authoring tools?
Posted Sunday, January 20th, 2008.
Filed under e-learning, web design and development with the tags accessibility, development tools, e-learning, interface design, opinion, standards
Buckle your seatbelts, you may not like this statement: Most e-learning tools do not promote the creation of effective courses, do not promote web standards, and do not promote accessibility; they merely make cookie-cutter course development easier for technically inexperienced course developers.
There, I’ve said it. Please don’t hate me.
Loading Captivate files into an AS3 Flash SWF
Posted Monday, January 14th, 2008.
Filed under e-learning with the tags ActionScript, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, Adobe Flash, development tools, e-learning, How-to, interface design, LegacyCaptivateLoader, technology
Update April 7, 2008: I’ve written a new AS3 class named LegacyCaptivateLoader that uses ExternalInterface to bridge the AS3 SWF and the Captivate SWF. Check it out.
I guess I’m late to the party, but I only recently realized that although a Flash Player 9 SWF can load an older Flash Player 6/7/8 SWF, it [...]
A look at Captivate 3.0, part one
Posted Tuesday, August 14th, 2007.
Filed under e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, development tools, e-learning
Here are my first impressions of Captivate 3’s improvements and new features.
Captivate 3, JavaScript and Actionscript
Posted Tuesday, August 14th, 2007.
Filed under JavaScript, e-learning with the tags ActionScript, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, Adobe Flash, development tools, e-learning, JavaScript
I just got Captivate 3, and eagerly installed it to see if any improvements have been made regarding JavaScript and Actionscript handling. Short answer: nope.