Our company is just starting to develop e- learning packages. We would welcome personal recommendations as to the best value for money packages with the easiest to use/view interface. I would like to use Mindflash but at $250 a month its too much at our stage of development. I am also trying to get to grips with elearning247 but I find it a little limiting. I look forward to your ideas.
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elearning platforms
Your post title suggest platforms which would relate to LMS – the delivery platform, but your post suggests more of the design and creation.
There are a number of free LMS platforms that can be used in commercial settings as well as educational ones. Moodle can be made to look just like a website. See http://www.i-cademy.org Synergy elearning does a good job of getting design elements right.
Another good and very value for money LMS is LearnDash which in essence changes wordpress into an LMS. Its very effective has good support and is user friendly.
In terms of creating and designing the elearning iself you can look at rapid elearning creation software.
There are add ons for PowerPoint at one end and specific software’s at the other.
Try looking at Zenler studio
Lectora
Articulate studio
We use a Articulate Studio because it works well and has a phenomenal community of users who share idea, thought and resources very freely. Articulate support is excellent.
We also use Moodle but I am looking at using Learndash for some corporate clients as its very easy to get up and running.
Hope this helps
3rd sector
If you are in the charity sector, the Charity Learning Consortium offer a good package using the Moodle platform. It does include an authoring tool as well.
http://www.charitylearning.org/
3rd sector
If you are in the charity sector, the Charity Learning Consortium offer a good package using the Moodle platform. It does include an authoring tool as well.
http://www.charitylearning.org/
Report
Hello – We've just gone through an evaluation process of a variety of packages including:
If you let me have an e mail address I can send you a copy of the evaluation report if it might be of any help?
LMS
Hi,
If you liked what Mindflash had to offer but found it too expensive then it might be worth considering LearnUpon which offers similar functionality to Mindflash but pricing starts at $99 per month for up to 100 users. You can sign-up for a free trial at http://www.learnupon.com.
Brendan.
P.S. Full disclosure: I work for LearnUpon.