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How to Choose the Right E-Learning Tool for Your Project

Comparing Lectora Online, Lectora Publisher, Lectora SNAP! with Articulate, Captivate and others This Friday I have the pleasure of speaking at the PACT Excellence Share. We will spend time exploring the topic, “How to choose the right elearning tool for your project“. Do you: – Get overwhelmed at the thought of choosing an elearning tool? –

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How to Structure Your Content

I am working with a client who has created courses in Articulate Studio. I am struck by the thought that I often am when I help clients improve their courses. The phrase, “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should” hits me as page by page there are articulate interactions but no cohesive meaning and

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The Bottom Line? It’s All About the Learner

At the end of the day once you have created an online course, it is all about the learner and the course. Period. You will not be there to help them navigate or learn the content. Are you confident that you have built the course to not only engage the learner in the content but

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Is the (LMS) Learning Management System Dying?

I attended a seminar today about trends in the elearning industry. One of the topics was on Learning Management Systems (LMS). Many companies struggle with the question of whether they need one and then if they do, which one to choose. There are many factors that play into how to decide and then when you

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Top 5 Design Mistakes in E-Learning and How to Fix Them

You have limited resources within your department at the office. So how do you know the best ways to maximize your design when creating courses? Overall remember when creating the design of a course,  your design should always support your content not detract from it. Use the visual design to enhance or reinforce the story or

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Does Your Development Tool Matter?

In working with my various organizations I am often in the position to dispel myths of what the various elearning development tools can and cannot do. Are there elearning development tools out there that do more of what you want than others? Of course, but the majority of the time any tool can get you

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Tool Smackdown: Captivate versus Lectora

Those of you who know me, know that I am a huge promoter of using the right elearning tool to do the right interactions. So I had the perfect Captivate project – lots of demos and guided practice scenarios to teach someone how to use a new software program. However, the client’s requirement was that

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