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E-Learning

Apr
1
2010

How We Write for E-learning

Lately we’ve been mainly doing Articulate projects.  I think I’ve written 6 of them in the last 5-6 months.  For a writer this brings up an interesting point: what is writing e-learning in Articulate like?  I’m curious about people’s thoughts on this and want to publish my own because we get a lot of feedback [...]

Feb
13
2010

Writing for E-learning

Writing for e-learning is quite an art form.  There’s all kinds of writing for e-learning because there is all types of e-learning.  Most of what we see currently is the client’s interest in getting a web-based (WBT) project done as quickly and as economically as possible.  That being the case, most projects consist of a [...]

Oct
26
2009

Storyboard Development

Storyoboarding is the intermediate step between agreeing on an outline for your course and starting development. As such it is probably the key step in getting everyone thinking about what the course will really be about.
The storyboard defines the structure, tone, level of detail and flow of your course. It’s your course’s blueprint, [...]

Sep
24
2009

Online Courseware

MLMultimedia’s services for online courseware start with your need to communicate some content. Either you have existing courseware, a computer-based training (CBT) project, or existing live classroom course material that needs to be converted or updated or you have an idea for a course you would like to create. Once we see the [...]

Jul
20
2009

1. Flash – what it is and how it works for e-learning

‘It’s an animation tool,’ ‘It’s a graphics program,’ ‘It’s a movie player,’ ‘It’s a plug-in to a browser.’ ‘It’s a multimedia tool,’ ‘It’s a timeline program,’ ‘It makes movies for the web,’ ‘It’s an advanced programming language.’ ‘It’s a SWF file,’ ‘It’s an entire eco-system for web development,’ ‘It’s the most popular programming language [...]

Jul
17
2009

3. Captivate for E-learning

Captivate is a wonderful tool for demoing software. You actually ‘record’ what you do with the software, showing how it works, pressing the buttons and entering the data….whatever, and Captivate records it. You then publish as a little movie.
The example below shows a simple demo Captivate illustrating a task in MS Word. You [...]

Jul
17
2009

2. What is the e-Learning transformation?

The transformation is about how the material in book becomes a learning experience.