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Choosing Authoring Tool That’s Right For You
What is the best authoring tool for e-learning? Despite efforts by many to develop or recommend one “best” authoring tool, the truth of the matter is, there is no single authoring tool in the market that will meet all the needs and match all of the capabilities of every organization.

From our experience consulting with various clients, we have learned that the best way to select an authoring tool is to FIRST assess your organization’s needs, capabilities, and available resources. This, of course, includes your learning strategies.

Nevertheless, there is a common *criteria that most organizations can use to assess if an authoring tool is right for them and we’d like to share them with you below:

	Ease of use
	Template-based
	Content reusability
	Richness of instruction
	Use of standards
	Managing content changes
	Write once, publish many
	Team development tool
	Minimal system requirements
	Value
	Product support
	Flexibility/portability of output
	Learning curve
	Cost of purchase/license

A final thought, the software output is only as good as your plan and design. Many trainers and developers jump into developing e-learning without planning their learning design. No amount of software can compensate for the absence of a good learning design.

*Authoring Tool Strategies
http://www.brandonhall.com/public/execsums/authoring_tool_strategies.pdf

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Ray Jimenez, PhD
Vignettes Learning
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