Eye-openers from eLearning Guild's Authoring & Development Tools Webinar

I'm sitting in listening to the e-Learning Guild's 360 report on authoring and development tools and I was surprised at the top three tools their survey uncovered. The order is:

1. Adobe Captivate - 66%
   
2. Microsoft PowerPoint - 58%
   
3. Microsoft Word - 47%

I guess I am either niave or blinded by the fact that people use some very basic tools for elearning development.

More surprising was the typical way teams train on authoring tools.

• 81 % reported teaching themsleves
  
• 70% learn from peers
  
• 34% learn from formal external training