Thursday, February 9, 2012

Popular Tools for Online Learning Content Creation

Both learning management systems or LMS and e-learning software have evolved a lot in the last one decade. Content created by e-learning software such as captivate, articulate and others can be easily hosted on an LMS.

Captivate - Create online learning content without any technical know-how

A part of Adobe e-learning suite, Adobe Captivate allows instructors and teachers to create various online learning courses without any knowledge of multimedia tools or coding. Adobe Captivate provides a wide range of useful features including file output generation in multiple formats. Course content generated through this tool can be published on YouTube or uploaded on an LMS for streaming.

Ability to import and sync presentations in a project along with custom widgets created by Adobe Flash make this tool really special. Priced at 249 USD, Adobe captivate also comes with built in templates that help instruction designers during online learning content creation.

Articulate - Easy to use content creation tool

Articulate allows quick and easy creation of online learning content that can be easily published to a learning management system. For most of its functionalities, the Articulate Rapid e-learning solution utilizes Microsoft PowerPoint. Presentations can be quickly refined with various animations by using this tool. The greatest advantage of Articulate as online learning content creation tool is the ease of use and built-in question handling options.

On top of these built-in functionalities, Articulate also comes with a readymade Quizmaker software tool. Instructional designers can incorporate media, graphics and publish courses that comply with AICC and SCORM standards.

Lectora - Value for money

Developed by Trivantis Corporation, Lectora can be used to create e-learning content in various formats including video files, HTML web pages and executable files. This software can import files from Microsoft PowerPoint for an e-learning project and it supports popular industry standards such as AICC and SCORM. It also supports several automated tools including resource manager, media library and title wizard.

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