Joe Ganci
President, eLearning Joe
Joe Ganci is the owner and president of eLearning Joe, a custom learning company. Since 1983, he has been involved in every aspect of multimedia and learning development. Joe holds a computer science degree, writes books and articles about eLearning, and is widely considered an eLearning development guru. He consults worldwide and also teaches at conferences and client sites. Joe writes tool reviews and has received several awards for his work in eLearning, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999 and an eLearning Guild Master Award in 2013. His mission is to improve the quality of eLearning with practical approaches that work.
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The New Raptivity Flavors: A Wealth of Interactions
Harbinger’s Raptivity now offers 191 wizard-based interaction builders that are compatible with dozens of eLearning authoring tools. Here’s Joe’s review!
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Toolkit: Mohive by CrossKnowledge (a Wiley Brand)
Mohive is a mature eLearning creation platform and tool that is international in nature. This review suggests why and when you should consider Mohive.
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Toolkit: Thinkzoom—Authoring that Leverages Video, Social
Thinkzoom is a web-based authoring tool that lets you build courses around your documents, videos, and video screen captures. The tool supports social learning and collaboration.
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Toolkit: Adobe Captivate Prime
Adobe set out to create a new LMS that it hoped organizations would find easy to use and yet powerful too. The company began by researching first what organizations liked and then what they didn’t like about their LMSs. If you are looking for an LMS, you really need to read this review!
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Toolkit: The New Captivate 2017 Edition
Adobe Captivate 2017 has been released, and once again Adobe has forged ahead and not rested on its laurels. It has brought Captivate even further into modern times. No other authoring tool contains as many features as Captivate does to customize the different views. The others may be a bit simpler, but they lack some of the power. Some still don’t offer responsive design at all.
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The Next Generation of Asynchronous Authoring Tools: What Practitioners Want in 2017
This research report details which features and functions are most desired by authoring tool practitioners, explores the characteristics of practitioners, and presents their input on the next generation of authoring tools.
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Toolkit: Koantic: Something Different … and Cool
Koantic is a tool of the modern video age. It is web-based as almost all modern tools are. You can import video, edit it, and customize it. Using the Koantic mobile app, available for Android and iOS devices, you can shoot a video and instruct the app to create a new course. You can also create courses on the Koantic site. Read all about this cool tool here!
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Toolkit: Smart Sparrow
The main thrust of Smart Sparrow is to allow you to create adaptive learning. If you’re not familiar with adaptive learning, it’s truly personalized learning that adapts itself to the learner’s level and progress. When creating or editing a lesson, you’ll find Smart Sparrow also offers several options to meet your instructional design goals. Join Joe as he walks you through this intriguing tool!
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Toolkit: A New Year for eLearning Tools: A Guide
When it comes to authoring tools, these days we are no longer bound to desktops, hard-drive storage, and optical-disc tool distribution: we have The Cloud. For delivery, cloud computing gives us the ability to reach millions of people with eLearning, at little cost. But authoring tool selection and licensing is confusing to many practitioners. Here is a guide to how it works today!
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Toolkit: Articulate 360 Review, Continued
Last month’s Toolkit provided an overview of Articulate’s new 360 Suite, and in-depth reviews of the updated Storyline 360 and Articulate Review. This month, Joe offers coverage of the rest of the tools in the suite.