Jane Hart runs a very useful website full of lists and tools. Recently she has been asking for people’s Top Ten tools for delivering elearning. Here are mine:

#1 Your organisation’s most up-to-date strategy document. If your list of courses doesnt reflect what is in this, you are simply not relevant.
#2 delicious or other social bookmarking tool. the easiest and most organised way of getting people to exchange links and curiosities
#3 photoshop – if it doesn’t look beautiful noone will want to go through it. Save a few quid by getting elements, 99.9% of the time it as good as the full version.
#4 prezi – powerpoint on steroids and with Kate Moss’s phone number
#5 captivate – the best £ for £ rapid elearning tool by miles. If your elearning is not scenario-based or replicate decision-making then it is rubbish. So you need branching – rapid doesnt need to mean dumb.
#6 flash – for the things that articulate cannot do
#7 a really nice .flv encoder
#8 youtube. That video you want probably already exists
#9 a subscription to athens (much higher than #9 if you have one). There is so much pseudo-academic anecdotal BS in elearning and so much research available – that isn’t used!! Drives me nuts. If you cant get athens google.scholar will make you appear much cleverer than you are.
#10 donald clark’s blog. For consistently pointing out the herd of elephants in the training room/lecture theatre/class. If you find Donald’s posts irritating, it is because you are doing it wrong