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Building e-learning courses: Should we use e-learning authoring tools?

This post was triggered by BJ Schone’s question “How do you build e-learning courses?“ So, here’s my question: How do you build your e-learning courses? Do you build them from scratch (ex. HTML, JavaScript, etc.)? Do you use an authoring tool for the whole course structure? This is

Bye-bye 2007

For 2008, I resolve to be more resolute when working on my resolutions. And for once I don’t mean screen or print resolution! I mean actively working towards achieving one of my MANY professional and hobbyist goals. 2007 was a great year… I had quite a few happy moments,

A Tale of Two (or more) Computers

A computer is born, and another computer dies (“I’m not quite dead!” he says in his best Eric Idle imitation). (Mac) Hi, I’m a Mac. (PC) And I’m a PC. I’m sure all of you know this commercial by now. As with many other geeks around

LMSs are just websites. No, really!

I had an interesting conference call the other day regarding a learning management system’s browser support. We’re trying to implement a new LMS, and it needs to be accessible for Mac users. The vendor promised us Mac support before the contract was signed and — surprise! — it doesn’t

Captivate-JavaScript limitations

Captivate SWFs can communicate with the host HTML file via JavaScript, but the scripting options suffer from severe limitations imposed by the Captivate authoring environment. For starters, this communication is (generally) a one-way street: the JavaScript goes out of Captivate to the HTML file, but the JavaScript in the HTML

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