After testing how well the presentation I had created for the Course Design on a Budget+ blog worked, I realized that there invariably will be some sort of cost to developing courses for digital consumption. That cost will range from very low to higher amounts. But, as I said in my previous blog, there is a plethora of tools and course design information available on the Internet.
Depending on what you want to do and how you want to present your material, it is still possible to create a well-designed course. Other tools I've seen available include those that you would upload your work to on the Internet and then link to it, such as:
I found a free trial of another type of course authoring software and decided to take it for a test drive by converting the Free Course Design Tools presentation into a Flash file. The software is called iSpring. It can convert PowerPoint presentations into Flash files. It is an easy-to-use course authoring tool, like Artiuclate, but without as many features. Before I could convert the file to Flash, I had to edit my audio files and import them into the PowerPoint. I then had to sync each slide's animation to the audio that I had embedded into each slide. Also, since this is a 30-day free trial software, the company has placed a watermark on presentation. Other than those few changes, it took me about 2 hours to make the revisions to the mini-course and convert it to a Flash file.
The last thing I have to do is test it. So, after posting this blog...I will leave a comment below after I've tested the course.
I'm still hoping some of my contacts will get some time to take a look at the course and provide some constructive feedback. That's the last test of this project and the last step in the ADDIE model.
Depending on what you want to do and how you want to present your material, it is still possible to create a well-designed course. Other tools I've seen available include those that you would upload your work to on the Internet and then link to it, such as:
I found a free trial of another type of course authoring software and decided to take it for a test drive by converting the Free Course Design Tools presentation into a Flash file. The software is called iSpring. It can convert PowerPoint presentations into Flash files. It is an easy-to-use course authoring tool, like Artiuclate, but without as many features. Before I could convert the file to Flash, I had to edit my audio files and import them into the PowerPoint. I then had to sync each slide's animation to the audio that I had embedded into each slide. Also, since this is a 30-day free trial software, the company has placed a watermark on presentation. Other than those few changes, it took me about 2 hours to make the revisions to the mini-course and convert it to a Flash file.
The last thing I have to do is test it. So, after posting this blog...I will leave a comment below after I've tested the course.
I'm still hoping some of my contacts will get some time to take a look at the course and provide some constructive feedback. That's the last test of this project and the last step in the ADDIE model.
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