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The Learning Tools & Technology Tsunami – Will You Sink Or Swim?<br />

#334: Murphy's Law - Waiting To Strike<br />

Software installs for e-Learning products and tools<br />

always take longer than expected in a large<br />

organization. Allow plenty of lead time to get systems<br />

and software up and running when starting e-<br />

Learning from scratch. Or even if "just" upgrading.<br />

Tricia Franke<br />

Fidelity Investments<br />

#335: Hey, Who Moved My Course?<br />

Time outs for connections between servers<br />

need to be coordinated. LDAP authentication<br />

Server, LMS Web Server, Database Server and<br />

Course Server. If the timeouts are not<br />

coordinated, a student may be in the middle of<br />

a 45 minute course, walk away for 30 minutes,<br />

come back, and complete the course, only to<br />

find out that a connection dropped, and all the<br />

work they did was lost.<br />

Randy Fingleton<br />

Steelcase<br />

#336: Can You Find Me Now?<br />

Develop a strategic plan for the use of key<br />

words and metadata. Make sure that you<br />

include course, lesson, and topic names in the<br />

metadata for each content screen.<br />

Phil Antonelli<br />

Intellinex<br />

#337: Don't Be A Hammer In Search Of A Nail<br />

Don't let technology drive your solution. There's more excitement here over a stack of laminated cheat<br />

sheets (job aids) than a highly sophisticated set of simulations. Given that you know the business result<br />

you are trying to impact, what media makes the most sense? It's not always e-Learning.<br />

Karin Albert<br />

#338: Know, Organize Media Files Pre<br />

Content Development<br />

Know your media file types. There are literally hundreds of file types out there and new ones<br />

seem to appear daily. Don’t worry. Learn the attributes of the twenty most common ones and<br />

they will serve you 99% of the time. Once you know them, organize them before you build a<br />

single page. By compiling all your media files in advance of building your content, you will save<br />

time both in searching and developing.<br />

Jeff Harris<br />

Trivantis Corporation<br />

#339: Better Safe Than Sorry - Don't Challenge "Off The Shelf"<br />

"Off the shelf" template tools should be reserved for the more simple training programs. Trying<br />

to modify a tool takes more time than if you developed in Flash from the start.<br />

Dave Goodman<br />

SoftAssist<br />

701 e-Learning Tips by The MASIE Center www.masie.com 67

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