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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

Instructional designers were getting ready to be in high demand, especially in the corporate world. Instructional technologists was a term, many folks had heard of. Think of today, and Articulate Storyline fan base. A product called Macromedia Flash (being used with web sites) became a go to for course development.

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My life…in elearning

Learning Visions

15 years ago I got a job as an instructional designer/multimedia producer at a company that created training programs delivered on CD ROMS. I learned my first ID model: instruct, demo, practice, assess. I had never heard of the term "instructional designer" before. It sounded really glamorous to me.

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Summer Course Authoring Tool Rankings – Top Ten

eLearning 24-7

Because it is Adobe – the same folks who came up with Photoshop a long time ago, who brought us Premiere – a long time ago and who bought Macromedia – again, a long time ago. You can do some things as a beginner but if you are an instructional designer you can take it up a notch. 2 Articulate Storyline.

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Learn How to Build Effective E-Learning with this Free E-Book

Rapid eLearning

Articulate Presenter was around well before eHelp (one of the leading companies) was purchased by Macromedia that was purchased by Adobe. In fact, eHelp licensed Articulate Presenter for their own RoboPresenter product. Swing by the Articulate booth to say “Hello.”. These tools didn’t get their start in 2007.

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Breakthrough eLearning: Time = Money: The Driver for Rapid eLearning

Breakthrough eLearning

Authoring software such as Macromedia Breeze, Lectora (by Trivantis), or Articulate Presenter make it easier for non-technical people to produce eLearning. They are typically very busy people, not always good at articulating what they do, and rarely produce material in a timely fashion.

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The New Adobe Captivate 7 Marches Backwards into the Future [Review]

mLearning Revolution

Shortly after publishing the above review, I followed it up with another post entitled Here’s how Adobe Captivate 6 could have been a Game-Changer for mLearning , where I shared some ways in which Captivate could help take instructional designers to the next level. Fast Forward One Year Later.

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

eLearning 24-7

Macromedia Authorware and similar products. Macromedia Director. The Macromedia set typically would toss in Director, which created an equally impressive array of course capabilities, but a deep learning curve. Eventually, Macromedia Dreamweaver came into the picture. HTML and Javascript. That was pretty much it.