Industry Trends

Where do you feel the eLearning Industry is going in the short term? Long term? How is this going to affect the development of courseware? Is everything going so mobile that all courses are going to be presented on cell phones? Only kidding - I hope!

You get the idea - please post your comments here, including any interesting links.

Development Tools - Experiences

There are numerous tools that people use to develop courseware. These include Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Lectora, Toolbook, Flash, PowerPoint, Photoshop, FireWorks, Javascript, and others (as well as combinations of some of these).

Please post your experiences here, good and bad, with the tools you use, or have used.

Professional Groups and Societies

There are a number of groups and societies available for those people who are interested in eLearning. Among these are:

• ASTD (American Society for Training & Development)
• eLearning Guild
• ISPI (International Society for Performance Improvement)
• SALT (Society for Applied Learning Technology)
• STC (Society for Technical Communication)

Please click the desired link above for more information.

LatitudeU: Teach the World

is the world's first open training community where any person or organization can learn, teach or share knowledge for free or fee. We believe that everyone has something to teach and many things to learn. LatitudeU is an online community that easily brings those who want to teach together with those who want to learn:

• Take a look around
• Join LatitudeU
• Want more? Join the Yahoo LatitudeU Group

Welcome to the Blog

Welcome to the Courseware Development blog - please suggest anything that is relevant to this subject!

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