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Associations
ASTD - ASTD is the world's leading association of workplace learning and performance professionals, forming a world-class community of practice. ASTD's 70,000 members come from more than 100 countries and 15,000 organizations - multinational corporations, medium-sized and small businesses, government, academia, consulting firms, and product and service suppliers.
eLearning Guild - The eLearning Guild is a Community of Practice for designers, developers, and managers of e-Learning. Through this member driven community we provide high-quality learning opportunities, networking services, resources, and publications.
ISPI - Founded in 1962, the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) is the leading international association dedicated to improving productivity and performance in the workplace. ISPI represents more than 10,000 international and chapter members throughout the United States, Canada, and 40 other countries.
e-Learning Industry Analysts
Brandon Hall - Brandon Hall, Ph.D., is a leading independent expert in e-Learning, helping organizations make the right decisions about technology through his writing, advising and presenting.
Elliott Masie - The MASIE Center is an international e-lab and Think Tank located in Saratoga Springs, NY. The Center is dedicated to exploring the intersection of learning and technology.
Kevin Kruse - Kevin is the author of the e-Learning Guru web site and newsletter. He is currently the e-learning columnist for CLO and the Chief Learning Officer and President of AXIOM Professional Health Learning.
e-Learning Authoring Tools
e-Learning Authoring Tool - The e-Learning Authoring Tool is a simple, easy to use tool for creating online courses. Its design allows you to create rich media courses containing text plus images, Flash animations, audio and video created with your favorite media editors. Every course you create will fully conform to the SCORM standard.
Flash Course Development Toolkit - The Flash Course Development Toolkit provides the source code and step-by-step instructions you need to create SCORM-based e-Learning Courses with Flash. The $149 toolkit lets you create a course as a collection of individual Flash movies. The toolkit loads your movies, creates a table of contents and provides complete navigation control. You have full control over the size, layout and look of your course.
LMS/LCMS Vendors
e-Learning Consulting Learning Management System - The Learning Management System (LMS) manages the delivery of self-paced, e-learning courses. At $5,000 or less, this is the lowest priced LMS on the market.
SumTotal Systems - SumTotal Systems is the industry's largest single provider of business performance and learning technologies, processes and services. SumTotal was formed by the merger of industry pioneers Docent, Click2learn and Pathlore. SumTotal Systems customers include Microsoft, Cingular Wireless, Vodafone, Lucent, Accenture, Cendant, Harley-Davidson, Wyeth, Wachovia and D & B.
Saba - Saba helps organizations effectively execute business strategies with its standards-based Enterprise Performance Management solutions. Saba provides a set of solutions consisting of learning, content, collaboration, performance and analytics products that help customers drive improved enterprise performance.
Standards
The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative - The ADL Initiative is evolving the development and implementation of ADL specifications and guidelines such as the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM). The SCORM is a reference model that defines the interrelationship of course components, data models and protocols so that learning content objects are sharable across systems that conform with the same model. e-Learning Consulting provides the SCORM Developer's Toolkit (an easy to use API for HTML and Flash developers), SCORM Visualizer (a diagnostic tool) and Manifest Maker (a tool to create SCORM manifests) for SCORM developers.
Learning-Education-Training Systems Interoperability (LETSI) - an international non-profit federation dedicated to improving individual and organizational learning and performance.
IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) - The Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) is chartered by the IEEE Computer Society Standards Activity Board to develop accredited technical standards, recommended practices and guides for learning technology.
IMS - IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. (IMS) is developing and promoting open specifications for facilitating online distributed learning activities such as locating and using educational content, tracking learner progress, reporting learner performance, and exchanging student records between administrative systems.
Seattle Consultants
e-Learning Consulting - You want to make the right choices when you create your e-learning program. e-Learning Consulting will help you every step of the way. With e-Learning Consulting, you will quickly and affordably implement an e-learning program that exactly fits your needs.
Seattle Resources
ASTD Puget Sound Chapter - The Puget Sound Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). The Chapter was organized in 1953 by a core of professionals in the training and development field to offer support and information on the latest trends in the field.
ISPI Seattle Chapter - Through thriving membership, the Seattle Chapter of ISPI exists to improve the performance of organizations and individuals through the use of Human Performance Technology.
EBS Northwest - EBS Northwest is a technical executive search firm specializing in eLearning, web development, software development, information systems, engineering, and other technology-oriented placements.
Directories
The Training Place - An e-Learning vendor list provided by The Training Place, a minority-owned company which provides adaptive learning intelligence tools and services for improving performance and business opportunities.
Instructional Design
M. David Merrill - M. David Merrill was listed among the most productive Educational Psychologists (Gordon, et al, Educational Researcher , Aug/Sep1984), among the most frequently cited authors in the computer-based instruction literature (Wedman, Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, Summer 1987), ranked among the most influential people in the field of Instructional Technology (Moore & Braden, Performance & Instruction, March 1988.). Dr. Merrill is the author of an excellent paper called the First Principles of Instruction.
Robert M. Gagné - Robert Mills Gagné (August 21, 1916– April 28, 2002) was an American educational psychologist best known for his "Conditions of Learning".
Big Dog's Bowl of Biscuits - Great instructional design resources and links from Donald Clark.
Learning myths:
- Is it really true that you learn more by (insert your favorite form of learning here)? Some excellent myth-busting by Will Thalheimer.
- Is one type of teaching always better than another? Find out for yourself by looking at real research at nosignificantdifference.org.
Course Development
eMedia Studios provides course development as well as audio and video production services. They are very professional, easy to work with and affordable.
Media Managers MediaManagers.net provides affordable, media rich eLearning and communication solutions that are compelling, engaging, and above all, effective.
Studioxmedia creates great Flash movies and other e-Learning related interactions.