Is Lectora the tool of choice?
July 23, 2008 12:00 AM
We use Lectora, Captivate, PowerPoint, and Adobe Presenter as our main options for creating e-learning -- which one we use depends on the type of course/learning objectives, the objective level(s), and how we want to distribute the course.We have deemed Lectora to be suitable for courses whose content is primarily in the knowledge domain and some skills domain -- primarily for non-systems training that requires a medium-to-high-level of interactivity. It is suitable for comprehension-level objectives (such as "recall," "classify," and "state") and for some application-level objectives (such as "select" and "calculate"). In our current world, we deploy Lectora via an really old version of CourseMill, which is not connected to our HR system and thus requires that we manually input each new learner into the system. Therefore, if we have a course that hundreds of learners will need to take around the same time (like for a roll-out of a new product or something), we do not currently use Lectora and, instead, go with something we can easily put up on our intranet. (I won't go into why we can't just put the Lectora course up on the intranet -- just trust me that, for us, it's not practical.) However, we're going to be implementing a new, bigger LMS that includes single-source sign-on and stuff, so I expect that our policy towards using Lectora for mass roll-out courses will change once we do.We also don't use Lectora when we need something that's just quick-and-dirty and for which a more "presentation-like" approach would suffice, because we can do something like that faster in Adobe Presenter or PowerPoint, and all of the trainers already have a PowerPoint license, so any of them can do the bulk of the work on that and then have one of the e-learning experts improve it, where necessary. And, IMHO, Captivate is a more suitable tool for system simulation than Lectora is.Does that help?Laura
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