conduct rapid production of e-learning effectively

When doing rapid development and revision, store your content in a database, recommends Jeff Rhodes (jrhodes@plattecanyon.com). "The basic idea is for instructional designers to lay out the types of training pages required (interactions) and for programmers to configure the development tool to dynamically configure itself to each of these page types/templates.

Subject matter experts (SMEs) then create the actual training by selecting the page type and entering the desired content into the database. There is more up-front design/programming time with this approach, but the payoff is overall reduced development time, easy revision, and increased control over your content," says Rhodes.According to Rhodes, "powerful tools" such as ASP.NET, Flash, Dreamweaver (with server-side programming), or ToolBook are most well-suited to this approach.