With
the growth of technology and e-learning solutions, there is a wide range of
applications for the creation of virtual courses and support for online
training processes. These serve as good options for the cooperate sectors in
relation to software developments aimed at generating content for e-learning
initiatives.
These online development projects, provide
open source applications. The e-learning
development tools are available for free to help a vast section of content
developers and students for the publication of web content. They do not need to be an expert in HTML or
XML format. The resources created online, can be exported in content packages
in IMS, SCORM 1.2 or IMS Common Cartridge formats, or as simple independent web
pages.
The
focus is mainly to provide academic assistance and help in educational research
and development. They offer a complete
suite of open source tools under a public license, for developers and
e-learning contenders, for the rapid development of interactive content, in an
easy-to-use and friendly way. It aims to rapidly respond to various situations
and problems that are faced by content developers to create effective and
create interactive content for educational purposes and seeks to accelerate the
process of developing them.
E-learning
content development tools provide a visual as well as
graphic creation environment, based on icons, that allows to easily generate
learning objects with the feature that is helpful in minimizing the use of
scripts, saving a lot of development time for content.
The users can easily integrate texts,
graphics, animations, sounds and video, even If the user of the
application does not write code. They help in creating simple an accessible
interaction interface. The generated content can be compatible with SCORM for
its use in any LMS (Learning Management System) or VLE (Virtual Learning Environment).
Meanwhile, if the user does write code, he or she can create complex and
sophisticated structures for interaction interface. This interface can be
customized and the user can develop their own interfaces and navigation systems
for e-learning solutions.
Some
of these tools offer the "Clean Up" HTML functionality that is
important for several export modes. This feature greatly helps those e-book
readers by giving them access to the contents developed by e-classes. They aim to
build a set of user-friendly functions, multi-platform software tools for the
development of e-books and learning modules. The purpose of these tools is to
allow the content development authors to spend more time developing content and
less time managing the technical aspects of creating multimedia electronic
documentation.
The
tools are capable of exporting to the following devices and formats:
•
HTML (any modern browser)
• IMS Content Package (for LMS`s as Moodle)
• ePub (for readers of electronic books such as
iBooks)
Some of the e-learning tools are basically, cloud
presentation software that opens a new world between blackboards and slides.
The zoomed canvas it proposes, makes it easier to explore ideas and connections
as a very visual application.
