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Atlantic Link's Rapid E-learning Authoring Tools Chosen as Capital City Bank Brings E-learning Development In-House
10/6/2009
After years of
investing their training budget with third party instructional
designers, Capital City Bank has made an internal decision to bring
their e-learning development in-house to save time, money and resources.
Bringing their e-learning development "inside" was a challenge however, because the organization really didn't have "developers" or "programmers" on staff. They began researching several authoring tools and had presentations from several vendors. The solution they would inevitably choose had to be cost effective, require very little assistance from their internal IT staff and had to be easy to use. But more importantly, the e-learning authoring tools had to be easy for a trainer or an instructional designer to use - who had little or no experience developing or programming online, e-learning courses.
Each vendor was matched up in terms of ease of use, features and functions, and cost. After a thorough comparative review of various leading, respected solutions... the company made a decision to move forward with Atlantic Link.
"Atlantic Link's set of tools were not only comprehensive, but they were easy to use and allowed my team to get up and running after just a minimal amount of training," said Denise Wilson, VP of Corporate Development. In the long run, however - one important feature helped in the decision making and that was the tool's collaborative functionality.
Bringing their e-learning development "inside" was a challenge however, because the organization really didn't have "developers" or "programmers" on staff. They began researching several authoring tools and had presentations from several vendors. The solution they would inevitably choose had to be cost effective, require very little assistance from their internal IT staff and had to be easy to use. But more importantly, the e-learning authoring tools had to be easy for a trainer or an instructional designer to use - who had little or no experience developing or programming online, e-learning courses.
Each vendor was matched up in terms of ease of use, features and functions, and cost. After a thorough comparative review of various leading, respected solutions... the company made a decision to move forward with Atlantic Link.
"Atlantic Link's set of tools were not only comprehensive, but they were easy to use and allowed my team to get up and running after just a minimal amount of training," said Denise Wilson, VP of Corporate Development. In the long run, however - one important feature helped in the decision making and that was the tool's collaborative functionality.


