Links for Instructional Designers and Developers

Links useful to instructional designers and elearning developers are available here. Bookmark this page! We add good links as we find them.

Useful and Free Online Tools

• 3D pie chart generator
• Clip Converter
• Color Code Converter
• Cool Text Graphics Generator
• HTML Quick Reference
• ISO Special Character Codes
• Javascript Generator
• Keyword Density Checker
• robots.txt Syntax Checker
• Search Engine Relationship Chart
• Section 508 Testing Tools
• Security Analyzer: Shields Up!
• Survey Monkey
• Word Press (blogs)
• YouTube to MP3 Converter

Free Multimedia Assets

• Burst
• eLearning.net
• eLearning Brothers
• Free Images
• Free Digital Photos
• Free Stocks
• Morquefile
• Free Copyright Sounds
• Pexels
• Picjumbo
• Pixabay
• Royalty Free Music for Free
• StockSnap
• Unsplash
• Videezy
• Videvo

Styles, Standards, Best Practices

• ATD: How Long to Develop One Hour of Training?
• AP Stylebook Online
• Chicago Manual of Style Online
• The Elements of Style
• SPJ Code of Ethics
   

Organizations

• American Society for Quality (ASQ)
• Association for Talent Development (ATD)
• eLearning Guild
• Electronic Freedom Foundation
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Sharable Courseware Objects Reference Model (SCORM)
• Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
• Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)
• Training Magazine Network
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

And please check out our eLearning Emporium.

Our goal is to showcase a diverse collection of computer-based training courses from talented authors at affordable prices.