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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

Let us take a trip back to the late 90s and 2000. Now, go back to the late 90s into the early 2000’s, with instructional designers developing WBT courses (Web-Based Training) and e-learning developers. A product called Macromedia Flash (being used with web sites) became a go to for course development. Dinosaurs roamed.

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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

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Alongside CD-ROMs came Microsoft Powerpoint, a modern presentation software quickly embraced by lecturers, executives, teachers and students. Early 2000s: The Dot Com Boom. The World Wide Web became mainstream, thanks to investors throwing money at anything web-related between1995 and 2000. 2005: The Rise of Flash Video.

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

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Microsoft Word converted to Flash? If a RCAT vendor tells you they have been in business for over 10 years, they are somewhat misleading, since WBT courses really didn’t start to hit the mark until 2000 and then you have limited choices on how to build. Macromedia Authorware and similar products. Macromedia Director.