Moodle--A Low Cost Learning Management System

As an independent, free lance elearning developer I need a very low-cost learning management system (LMS) to host projects that are in development for clients and to provide demonstration courses. The ideal solution for my LMS needs has turned out to be Moodle. Moodle was originally created by Martin Dougiamas as part of the research for his Ph. D. thesis at Cu ...

Great Communities for Learning Flash Actionscript

If you are just starting out with Flash Actionscript programming or already have lots of experience, there are a couple of terrfic online communities where many experienced Actionscript developers share their expertise. Best of all, both of these are free.

Flash Tiger is a Yahoo Group that is moderated by several Flash programmers. To subscribe, send an email to

Sharing PowerPoint Files via the Internet

Do you want to use the Internet to distribute PowerPoint presentations to your learners? By distribute, I mean allow your audience to download your PowerPoint presentation and use it locally on ...

Converting Slides and Notes to Web-Deliverable Formats

No matter what methods and techniques you choose to schedule and deliver your online courses, you will probably want to deliver some kind of slides or notes to your learners at some time during your eLearning pr ...

Overview of Software to Create Web-Ready Multimedia Presentations

Part of the asynchronous communications in your eLearning program will probably include previously recorded lectures or multimedia presentations. In this recording I discuss several softwar ...

Pricing Your eLearning Programs

Pricing is one of the most challenging aspects of managing any business. In this recording, I offer several questions that you can answer to help you start to develop a pricing model for your eLearning program. For more information on this a ...

What Constitutes an eLearning Program?

As I look at the material that I have posted thus far in this blog, I realize that my suggestions show a strong bias based on my professional experience producing a particular kind of program for a p ...

Options for Creating Webpages for Your Courses

There are many ways to create web pages and web sites to distribute your course material, from creating the HTML files from scratch and uploading them to your web server to filling in a form in a blogging, wiki, or ...

What If Learners Miss the Web Conference

If your analysis of the characteristics of your eLearners leads you to develop synchronous, interactive training be sure that you have a way to archive and store your web conference, teleconference, or chat. Then make the recording or file accessible to learners who miss the live session. If the vast majority of your learners choose to access the archive, instead of participating in the live event, it's time to reconsider your decision ...

Why a Password-Protected Site for Your eLearning Course?

You need a password-protected site for course materials so that you can make your materials accessible only to learners who have registered for the course. In particular, most associatio ...

Synchronous or Asynchronous Communications

Once you have decided to offer instructor-led (live) eLearning courses, there are still  many methods and technologies to choose from to deliver the courses.& ...

Tools to Develop and Deliver Instructor-Led Courses

Here is an overview list of the kinds of tools that you could use to develop and deliver instructor-led courses. Want to tell us about your favorite tools? Post a comment.

• Tools to put content into a web-deliverable format
  • Create web pages from text files
  • Create PDF files from text and slide files, such as Word and Power ...