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"Designing meaningful and engaging lessons (for any form of delivery, including eLearning) is a task that every good instructional designer seeks to master. Teaching lower-school students is a privilege that quickly makes you realize that the approach you take when conveying an idea is just as important as the idea itself. An approach that I have found most successful is threefold: Be clear and concise Use visuals Excite the imagination. Since migrating over to the "adult learning" spectrum, I've found this strategy to be just as applicable."

Here's a list of some e-Learning authoring tools for mobile learning.

GoAnimate is a cloud-based animated video creation platform. This is one way of saying it doesn't require you to draw or learn any programming. You can make videos from scratch, in the cloud, using simple drag-and-drop tools. But not free!

This is a good article for IDs, ETs & MDs to read... 

The way a course for e-learning looks online affects how well the content is being communicated to the learners. Fonts are important visual design elements that has the power to engage learners. This short article elaborate the importance of using them effectively.

I have download the PDF for some do not have the Guild membership yet. Here is the link to my dropbox public folder, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8867598/guildresearch_rapid2011.pdf. Here are the product overview. - Adobe Captivate- Adobe Connect- Adobe Presenter - Articulate Engage - Articulate Presenter - Camtasia Studio - Raptivity Niko, you ask me about Raptivity some time back, check it out!

A more serious digital divide is when people think that digitizing content makes it elearning. Richard explains the right way to reimagine learning so that learning is powered by technology

For ETs

For IDs and other CeLebs who want to read about e-learning and instructional design, here's a bunch of free e-books.

Very interesting. This articles talks about pacing in activity by using example of gaming. I have always believed in progressive advancement in difficulty or challenge, reward or difficulties ( be it anything) then this article differed this view. Example if you eat good restaurant food everyday, your taste bud will soon fail to distinguish good or bad food and just learn to accept. this could be applied to things we do in life - challenges, job satisfactions or even learning to get better engagement. It enlighten me on how true this is- in game series when they do or do not uses this approach, the successful one in the series are those used this such as MGS1 and MGS3 in the series and why not 2 because this factor - pacing.

Izzui is the first open social learning place for everybody on Facebook to create, publish, share and sell elearning content

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