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Managing Director, designer, ergonomist and e-learning expert of 20 years experience.

Jackdaw: Is this the App Store for E-Learning?

Jackdaw is free e-learning authorware from Open Elms which produces elegant e-learning courses which can be used without cost and in addition sold online.

The options for developing engaging e-Learning and selling it online has to date been costly. As such great training material has remained in the hands and heads of the trainers and those fortunate enough to have sat in their classrooms. Jackdaw is free easy-to-use e-learning authoring software that aims to change this. The software, produced by Open Source e-learning experts, Open Elms, allows its users to create e-learning featuring video trainers in virtual 3D rooms.
The e-learning produced is a step-change in sophistication from the standard e-learning development tools such as Captivate and Presenter in that the e-learning it produces has genuine 3D depth and is more similar to an actual chalk and talk training session than the Power Point style presentation of traditional e-learning. The system is also very easy to use with no coding skills necessary, simply select the appropriate template and customise for your own requirements. Examples of courses produced by the system can be found on the Jackdaw App Store at www.openelms.org.
Users can download the Jackdaw editing tool for free and then again freely distribute the courses made throughout their company. If they want to go that step further and make money from their efforts then they can submit their courses to the App Store where it will be reviewed by Subject Matter Experts and then listed for sale. The course author then keeps 70% of every course sold through the store.
The software is available for evaluation on demand else it can be downloaded from http://www.openelms.org/jackdaw