To truly create e-learning content that is meaniful and lasting you will need to utilise applications that are a bit more powerful than general apps. Two programs like this are Adobe’s Captivate and Presenter. Even though both of these programs have huge scope and posibilities, they have many levels of user ability and very easy to use entry levels.
Adobe Presenter allows you to take a PowerPoint presentation and add in interactivity, create quizes, monitor learning and much more. Watch the short video below to learn some of it’s capabilities.
With very little instruction you will be able to create effective e-learning content that can be accessed on any manner of devices.
Taking this e-learning content creation further, we move to Captivate. At first glance Presenter and Captivate may appear similar, however Captivate also allows you to capture screen content to create simulations and instructional videos.
To better understand how Captivate can be used by educators watch these series of videos below.
For any educator who wants to engage their students and create meaningful learning experiences I would whole-heartedly recommend getting a hold of Captivate and/or Presenter and to start using it this year. If you need some further guidance in using either of these programs you can find some more tutorials here:
Finally, for those of you who do want to learn much more about Captivate right away here are a series of videos that explore most of its capabilities in depth.