This is a motivational design process that includes a synthesis of motivational concepts and theories clustered into four categories: Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and satisfaction. This resource will help you determine appropriate motivational activities for each of the four categories.

The affective domain includes how we deal with things emotionally. This resource focuses on verbs that describe feelings, values, appreciation, enthusiasms, motivations, and attitudes. The five major categories are listed from the simplest behavior to the most complex.

The psychomotor domain includes physical movement, coordination, and use of the motor-skill areas. This resource focuses on verbs that describe speed, precision, distance, procedures, or techniques in execution. The seven major categories are listed from the simplest behavior to the most complex.

The cognitive domain includes knowledge and the development of intellectual skills. This resource focuses on the recall or recognition of specific facts, and procedural patterns The six major categories are listed from the simplest behavior to the most complex.

This workbook provides six steps you need to follow to conduct an effective needs analysis and the questions that would help you conduct a needs analysis.

This mindmap will help you organize the course content you obtain from your SMEs.

This template will help you create a detailed plan for designing your learning solution based on Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction.

This template will help you document course structure, navigation, and design as well as the audio and visual elements to be used. It is proof that key stakeholders agree with the vision of the eLearning course.

This checklist should be used to verify whether your eLearning course meets the accessibility requirements.

This template provides guidance on the components to include to ensure course consistency. This template includes style choices such as fonts, headings, and even image placements for the screen.

This template helps you monitor any issues that arise in your project and ensure that they are resolved by their target date.

This resource helps you identify application methods for each instructional event.

This resource explains Gagne's Theory of Instruction.

This document provides an overview of where the instructional design originated and how it evolved.

This chart outlines the nine types of intelligence and learners' preferences in each category.

This checklist is a tool that will ensure you will not miss anything during your implementation phase.

This glossary lists major instructional design terms and their definitions.

This checklist helps you determine if eLearning is the appropriate solution for the course you need to create.

This template should be used to organize course information including lesson content, modules, and organisation.

This template will help you plan and organize your learning game.

The template will help you answer the question you need to ask your SMEs to successfully kick off your project.

This resource focuses on questions every instructional designer should ask to ensure the quality of their eLearning course.

This resource focuses on the revised Bloom's taxonomy and how to use each level effectively.

This chart covers the sections instructional designers need to include in the Design Document and the information each section should cover.

This template helps you organize your screens and provide your stakeholders and subject matter experts with a preview of how the course will flow and how the content will be presented.

This template helps you organise your screens and provide your stakeholders and subject matter experts with a preview of how the course will flow and how the content will be presented.

This template helps you organise your screens and provide your stakeholders and subject matter experts with a preview of how the course will flow and how the content will be presented.

This template helps you organise your screens and provide your stakeholders and subject matter experts with a preview of how the course will flow and how the content will be presented.

This template helps you determine the appropriate job aid based on the type of task you want your learners to perform.

This resource provides an overview and main focus of each learning theory.

Free images are a high-quality resource of digital stock photographic images for use by all. All images in the collection are free to use on websites, printed materials and anywhere you need photos for illustration and design use.

FreeImages is a leading source of free stock photos.

MorgueFile is a source that contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site.

Imageafter is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site in your own work, either personal or commercial.

Flickr is one of the best photo management and sharing application.

Stockvault is a stock photo-sharing website that collects and archives medium and high-resolution photographs that designers and students can share and use for their personal and noncommercial design work.

Wikimedia Commons is a database that contains over 8.5 million images.

Archive's audio and MP3 library is audio and mp3 library, which contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.

Free Music Archive is an archive of public domain and Creative Commons licensed songs managed with a

curatorial approach.

Audiofarm is the social network for audio. Audiofarm is the best and easiest way to find new and interesting music and audio from around the world.

AudionautiX is a free online music collection that you can use for non-commercial and commercial purposes as long as you provide credit "Music from - audionautix.com" or give a link to the audionatiX website.

BrainyBetty is a website full of free sound clips and music for presentations.

ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

DanoSongs is a site where you can find original music as free MP3 downloads. You can listen to the songs online or download the tracks. It is also legal to use the music royalty-free in your video, game, film, presentation, slideshow, or website.

Jamendo is the #1 platform for free music. The site allows users to download and listen to albums, and also to

discover and share new artists. It is completely free and legal.

Kompoz is an online community that allows collaboration between artists from all over the world. Artists post their clips on the website where anyone can download and use them for their own productions.

Musopen is a non-profit organization focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. Musopen provides recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions.

PacDV is free music that you can use in your video, audio, or multimedia productions. Clips are available as mp3s and are organized by mood and

emotion.

Partners in Rhyme is a huge catalog of royalty-free music libraries for you to download and start using right away in your commercial projects.

Purple Planet is a free collection of royalty-free music available for download. Music can be used free of charge for web-based projects in exchange for a link to the Purple Planet website.

Audacity is an audio editor for recording, slicing, and mixing audio.

Levelator is software that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio files for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It's not a compressor, normalizer, or limiter although it contains all three. It's much more than those tools, and it's much simpler to use.

Soundation is a powerful online music studio with recording, effects, virtual instruments, and over 700 free loops and sounds.

Vocaroo is a quick and easy way to share voice messages over the interwebs.

Voxal Voice Changer is a state-of-the-art voice-changing program for Windows designed to enhance any application or game that uses a microphone.

Online Audio Cutter is an online application for cutting audio files. It allows you to effortlessly cut out a desired fragment from an MP3 file or a file in other formats.

Slice Audio File Splitter is a free audio file splitter that is designed to split audio files into a set number or a set duration. This easy mp3 splitter software can also detect a specified amount of silence and split the file at these points.

Gilisoft is a software that enables you to record any sound you can hear on your computer, from Internet radio stations to streaming music. You can set the recording audio quality, from a low quality taking minimal disk space, up to CD quality.

Wink is a tutorial and presentation creation tool that allows to capture screenshots, add explanation boxes, buttons, and titles to generate highly effective tutorials for users.

Gadwin PrintScreen is a tool that can perform full screen captures or only capture a specific window.

Zapgrab is fast and easy screen capture software that copies everything on your computer screen. It allows you to capture either the whole screen or a region, with just a single click. You can choose exactly how much of the screen you

want to capture.

PrtScr is a screen-capturing tool that captures full screen, rectangle selection, freehand selection, or active window. The tool allows annotation over capture, exports capture as JPG, BMP, or PNG, and can re-scale capture before exporting it.

Screenpresso is a tool that creates screenshots and HD videos of your desktop.

Screencast-O-Matic is an online screen recorder that allows you to record your screen and upload the resulting video to their website.

Zamzar is a web application that converts files and supports over 1,000 different conversion types. The tool converts between document, image, music, video, audio, eBook, compressed, and CAD formats.

WordtoPDF is powered by Nitro Cloud. The software allows you to convert documents from Office to PDF, and back again. With Nitro software, you can also create, share, edit, convert and collaborate with digital documents.

CutePDF Writer is the free PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows application to convert to professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button.

Free PDFConverter is an online pdf converter that provides a quick and easy way to convert PDF to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, allowing you to create a PDF from literally any file.

Web2PDF Convert is a tool that converts any website including most SSL-based sites to PDF documents. With Web2PDF, you can quickly save useful information in the website to PDF files.

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It has many capabilities and can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, and more. GIMP gives you Photoshop-like power without the price.

Color Cop is a free multi-purpose color picker for Windows. It can help you choose colors for your website and match colors on Web pages.

Pixie is a color picker that can pull colors from images and gives you the hexadecimal or RGB color codes.

Image Resizer is a tool that you can use to resize large images.

FastStone Photo Resizer is an image converter andrenaming tool that intends to enable you to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag and Drop mouse operation is well supported.

Reshade is a tool that allows you to resize images maintaining quality, sharpness, and focus.

Image Tuner is a free batch image resizing, renaming, conversion, and watermarking software with a super-intuitive and straightforward interface.

Poladroid is a fun photo-altering application that allows users to transform any picture into a virtual Polaroid.

Thing Link is a tool that helps you create rich images. Thing Link can help you make your images come alive with music, video, text, and other multimedia content to hot spots on the image.

Artweaver Free is a full-featured painting tool with a huge set of predefined brushes. You can use Artweaver for basic graphic editing.

FotoFuze is an online tool that lets you make professional product photography out of ordinary photographs from ordinary cameras. You can add sets of photos to the website and the software will process those photos into professional-looking product photography for free, which you can access from any computer.

Convert My Image is a service that enables you to convert between various image file formats.

Free Image Converter is a tool designed to make resizing photos and image files as easy as possible. It saves time when you have many images you need to resize at once. is a tool designed to make resizing photos and image files as easy as possible. It saves time when you have many images you need to resize at once.

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Pixlr is a free online photo editor. The tool allows you to edit, adjust and filter your images. No registration is required, so you can jump right in!

Tagxedo turns words, speeches, articles, slogans, and themes, into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any text by creating what is popularly known as a word cloud, text cloud, or tag cloud.

Tweet Clouds is a service that lets you generate a cool looking cloud of the words you tweet about the most.

Word It Out is a word cloud generator that gives you control with many custom settings.

Blender is an open-source, cross-platform suite of tools for 3D creation. Even though Blender requires a learning curve, it produces good results.

Caligari is a tool for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering.

Cacoo is a user-friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site map, flowchart, mind map, wireframe, UML diagram, and network diagram. Cacoo can be used free of charge.

POV-Ray is a tool for creating stunning 3D

graphics.

Trimble Sketch Up is a 3D modeling program for a broad range of applications including film as well as video game design.

Gliffy is the most widely used online diagramming application that works directly in your browser. Gliffy lets you create professional-quality flowcharts, org charts, diagrams, diagrams, wireframes, technical drawings, and more.

FlipSnack is a flipping book software that lets you convert PDF documents into Flash page flip digital publications that you can embed into your website.

ISSUU - You Publish is a free digital publishing site that preserves the experience of reading a print publication.

Yumpu is a web application for creating your own flappable magazine for free.

BookletCreator is a simple tool that allows you to create a booklet from a PDF document. It reorders pages so that after printing and folding the pages, a small book is created.

Infogr.am is a tool that lets you create beautiful infographics and interactive online charts.

Easelly is another Web-based tool for creating infographics.

PowToon is an online business presentation software tool that allows you to create animated videos.

Roxio PhotoShow is a tool that allows you to create dazzling photo slideshows online for free. Simply upload your photos, then add a theme, music & captions, and share your slideshow with anyone you want.

LiveWeb is a tool that you can use to insert web pages into a PowerPoint slide and refresh the pages real-time during slide show. LiveWeb can work with documents of your local drive. The tool can even look for files in the presentation folder if the files have local drive information and cannot be located at the location specified by the user during a slideshow.

Google Docs is a tool that allows you to create and share your work online and access your documents from anywhere. With Google Docs you can manage documents, spreadsheets, presentations, surveys, and more all in one place.

SlideShare is a tool that offers the ability to upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, and Adobe PDF Portfolios.

Animoto is a video maker that turns your photos, video clips, and music into video in minutes.

Vimeo is a video-sharing website on which you can upload, share and view videos.

Smilebox is an application that lets you quickly and easily create slideshows, invitations, greetings, collages, and photo albums on your computer. Smilebox has 1000 customizable templates to choose from.

Bambuser is a company that provides an interactive live video broadcasting service, for streaming live video from mobile phones and webcams to the internet.

Mixlr is a platform for social live audio. Mixlr allows people to broadcast live audio and engage with listeners.

OpenWorkbench is a desktop application for project management and scheduling in which you can define a work breakdown structure, set dependencies and resource constraints, assign resources to tasks, auto-schedule, and then monitor progress.

Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for note-taking and archiving.

Asana is a free shared task list for your team. The place to plan, organize, and stay in sync.

Freedcamp is a free project management software designed to manage multiple project tasks. Project managers gain full control of their project, where they can track workers’ time spent on a project, set deadlines, create a to-do list, and share important documents and information. It features a state-of-the-art communications system, from where all users can see which tasks have been assigned to them without the need to be signed into the system.

Collabtive is a web-based project management software intended for small to medium-sized businesses and freelancers.

ClockingIT is a free hosted application, keeping track of all your tasks and the time you spend on them.

Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.

Hot Potatoes is a suite that includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering, and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like.

ClassMarker is an easy-to-use, customizable online test maker for business, training & educational assessment with tests and quizzes graded instantly.

Easy TestMaker is an online test generator that makes it easy for you to perfectly format multiple question types, print alternate versions, and publish to the web for online tests! The tool lets you create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true/false questions, add instructions and divide your test into multiple sections.

Quandary is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes or interactive case- studies where the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Action mazes can be used for many purposes, including problem-solving, diagnosis, procedural training, and surveys/questionnaires.

QuizSlides is a website that lets you create stylish, interactive online tests.

Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.

Edmodo is a free and private social platform for classrooms. It includes a messaging service, a class calendar, a place to store and share content and educational applications, assignment and grading capabilities, mobile access, class discussions and notifications, and many other features.

ATutor is a free Open Source Web-based learning environment designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. The software is cited as unique for its accessibility features, (useful to visually impaired and disabled learners); and for its suitability for educational use according to software evaluation criteria established by The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).

Dokeos is an open-source online learning suite. It provides all the features needed for e-learning and blended learning management: From Authoring to Reporting.

Sakai Project is a Learning Management System used for teaching and collaboration.

Chamilo is an open-source e-learning and content management system, aimed at improving access to education and knowledge globally. The LMS (or "1.*") version directly builds on Dokeos. Chamilo LCMS (or 3.0) is a completely new software platform for e-learning and collaboration.

ILIAS is a SCORM compliant Learning Management System (LMS), developed at the University of Cologne/Germany. It supports tools for collaboration, communication, evaluation, and assessment.

Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.

Edmodo is a free and private social platform for classrooms. It includes a messaging service, a class calendar, a place to store and share content and educational applications, assignment and grading capabilities, mobile access, class discussions and notifications, and many other features.

ATutor is a free Open Source Web-based learning environment designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. The software is cited as unique for its accessibility features, (useful to visually impaired and disabled learners); and for its suitability for educational use according to software evaluation criteria established by The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).

Dokeos is an open-source online learning suite. It provides all the features needed for e-learning and blended learning management: From Authoring to Reporting.

Sakai Project is a Learning Management System used for teaching and collaboration.

Chamilo is an open-source e-learning and content management system, aimed at improving access to education and knowledge globally. The LMS (or "1.*") version directly builds on Dokeos. Chamilo LCMS (or 3.0) is a completely new software platform for e-learning and collaboration.

ILIAS is a SCORM compliant Learning Management System (LMS), developed at the University of Cologne/Germany. It supports tools for collaboration, communication, evaluation, and assessment.