Social Learning Systems

The eLearning Guild : Rapid eLearning Authoring: Top Tools Report

In this report, author Joseph Ganci discusses which rapid eLearning authoring tools are the most popular and why. Using Guild Research survey data, Joseph also examines how powerful people find these tools, perceived ease of use, how many different tools people use, and trends in tool usage. Joseph also compares features and functions across tools, and closes with a detailed discussion of the top seven tools revealed in the survey.

-- A good look at Captivate, Articulate, Camtasia, etc. --

via www.elearningguild.com

How Long Does it Take to Create Learning? (2010 Research)

by Bryan C on September 14, 2010

Research Participants: 249 companies organizations, representing 3,947 learning development professionals, who have created content consumed by 19,875,946 learners.

All results are shown as ratios, showing number of hours of development to create 1 finished hour of learning (output)

 

We just completed a large-scale study and encourage you to use the results to benchmark and help improve your own internal development practices (see below):

How Long Does it Take to Create Learning?

via brandon-hall.com

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Make sure to check out the newest info on course development ratios. Extremely useful for anyone managing the development of traditional classroom and/or web-based training materials.