ELICITUS, Harbinger’s award-winning tool amongst "Most Popular" Authoring Tools for E-Learning

March 3, 2004 -- Brandon-hall.com (http://www.brandonhall.com/), a leading independent expert in e-Learning, had conducted a survey on their website to assess the popularity of various authoring tools. They received 257 responses and a total of 74 authoring tools were evaluated in the report.

Examining tools that scored a response rate greater than 5 per cent reduced the list to only 13 authoring tools. Elicitus (http://www.elicitus.com), an award-winning e-learning authoring tool developed and marketed by Harbinger Knowledge Products, was amongst them.

Says Mr. Jayant Kulkarni, Executive Director, Harbinger Knowledge Products, "Elicitus has emerged as the new refreshing authoring alternative, shoulder-to-shoulder with stalwarts like Microsoft, Macromedia and Click2Learn in this prestigious survey by brandon-hall.com."

The brandon-hall.com report says, ‘Although Microsoft Word and PowerPoint are popular tools and are commonly used to create online training content; they lack features that many e-learning authoring tools contain. Shortcomings include an inability to create anything other than the simplest assessments, an inability to communicate at the detail level with learning management systems, static page-turning content, and limited use of audio/video/animation - among many others.’

Mr. Vikas Joshi, CMD, Harbinger Group, adds: “As the report points out, several of the popular authoring tools such as Word and PowerPoint are general-purpose content creation tools. Given this, Elicitus is one of the few 'most popular' e-Learning-specific authoring tools.”

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For Harbinger, this is been another significant milestone, after the ASTD (American Society for Training and Development) review of Elicitus in Learning Circuits, which hails Elicitus as “the product that seems to live up to its promise”. Earlier Elicitus scored top marks for correct conversion of legacy content at a product contest held in Online Learning 2002 Conference and Expo at Anaheim, California, US.




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