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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Toolkit: Articulate 360: Storyline 360 and Articulate Review
Articulate has been hard at work, not only creating an update to Storyline as expected but changing the whole way that it offers its products. Articulate 360 is not just an update: It includes all of the products that Articulate offers—updated versions of those it has offered in the past, along with new ones—all under one banner.
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Toolkit: Industry Update and Review of Course Inspector
This month, Joe comments on the ongoing death of the Flash format, and he provides a thorough review of Course Inspector, a tool for swatting bugs in your eLearning. Inspector works with any SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 published output from six popular authoring tools. In this review, you get a complete walk-through of Inspector’s features.
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Toolkit: Upgrading Minds, Upgrading Tools: Raptivity and iSpring
As time passes, more authoring tools have moved from our hard drives to the cloud. Pricing has changed, at the same time, from periodic purchase of a new version on a new CD or DVD to an annual subscription that results in a new version over time through incremental updates. Here is Joe’s take on this, plus news about changes to two important tools.
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Toolkit: Axonify Revealed
Even though Axonify says it is not a learning management system (LMS), it has definite similarities to one. But it goes even further into the world of building, measuring, and adjusting employee knowledge in larger enterprises. Journey into that world and see why Axonify calls itself an “employee knowledge platform.” It seems to be leading a very good trend in many respects.
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Toolkit: mLevel: A Cloud-based Gamification Microlearning Desktop and Mobile Solution … with Analytics!
Have we reached a tipping point in the evolution of eLearning development tools? mLevel is an example of a tool that is pretty close to meeting market demands for easier authoring of microlearning and gamification, for useful analytics, for desktop and mobile delivery, and for engaging features. Read all about it in this review!
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Toolkit: Xyleme: A Different Approach to Authoring
In the past, Joe has said, “No authoring tool balances power and ease of use.” Today he reviews a tool that really attempts to give you both. Some developers will like it right away, and others may find that it requires a period of adjustment. Find out why Joe feels this way about Xyleme!
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Toolkit: A Review of Rehearsal, or How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
Classes and courses do not make learners into experts. They are the foundation for further learning, but it’s practice that takes learners to higher levels of skill. But training often leaves out the follow-up practice and feedback, so the foundation erodes quickly. Now Rehearsal.com provides a chance to practice with someone, a mentor who has an excellent reputation. Read about it here!
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Toolkit: What’s the Best eLearning Tool? It Depends (Part 2)
In March of this year, Joe got you started on the process to identify the learning tool(s) that best match your instructional design needs. This month, he completes the process with a list of the exact questions you need to ask tool vendors!
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Toolkit: What’s the Best eLearning Tool? It Depends
It’s a question that Joe gets asked all the time at conferences, in classes that he teaches, maybe even by strangers on the street: What is the best eLearning tool? You probably know the answer, but Joe has some questions for you that will help you make your decision.
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Toolkit: easygenerator—What a Difference Five Years Make!
easygenerator first launched in 2011. Since that time it has taken on a new look and new features, and has matured into a tool that now primarily aims at authors who do not have an eLearning background. Read this review for a walk-through of the many features of easygenerator, including ones that are not found in other authoring tools.