Elearning Guide

Elearning Tool

An eLearning tool is the best way to develop and manage your eLearning program. There are many tools available in the market for developers to choose from. These tools provide a good aid for developers to design and develop a good eLearning product.

What are the different eLearning tools?

• Digital Multimedia creation tools - Images, graphics, Sound, Animation etc are prominent media types which are present in Digital Multimedia creation tools. Bandwidth issues over the internet is the only obstacle in Digital Multimedia Creation tools.
  
  
• Text creation tools - Most web browsers like Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer read HTML formats. Adobe Acrobat profiles is amongst the other formats offering published and a printable look. Common word processors and text editors support three formats - .DOC, .TXT and .RTF.
  
  
• Graphic and Image creation tools - The look of the content which you wish to manage is highly improved by using images and graphics creation tools. These tools will ensure that complex topics are quite easily understood. Any Operating System would allow the scanning and importing of graphics in different web formats. The formats supported are - .JPEG, .BMP, .BIF. Editing is done by image authoring tools like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw.
  
  
• Animation Tools - JAVA, Shockwave etc are the animation formats for the web and they can be created using Corel Web Graphics, WebPainter etc. Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) is the revolutionary standard to be used as an animation tool which require browsers like VRScout, Webspace Navigator etc.
  
  
• Web Publishing tools - This is extremely helpful to prepare a web based education site. The important point here is the content must be in HTML Format. HTML formats can be done by using an HTML Editor. Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage are two of the frontline Web Publishing tools.
  
  
• Internet Based Conferencing Tools - The internet can be used in a very effective way to build and manage eLearning content in an interactive manner. Live chat and newsgroups are the best communication and collaboration tools available to support Internet based conferencing.

What are the different tools available?

Lotus Notes Domino, Collabra Share, Microsoft NetMeeting, Intel Proshare are some of the important software tools available. Director and Authorware Professional form the majority of the Multimedia Internet Authoring tools in the market. Tools like FORUM, Learning Space, Symposium etc are highly effective tools which promote collaborative learning instructional eLearning tools.

These tools help one build a comprehensive eLearning solution. Building eLearning solutions with the help of these tools are a highly complex activity and one should ensure that this activity is done by the experts.