Litmos

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Consider the internet; developments on top of the TCP/IP protocol like SMTP and HTML allowed a variety of tools to work together to bring us email and the world wide web. Initially, when you developed eLearning, you were pretty much dependent on the tool you developed it in. They make working together easier.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

We didn’t have specific tools for learning outcomes, and we had to apply generic tools like computer systems and the like. There did emerge authoring systems (e.g. And, specifically for learning, Authorware became a powerful tool. The whole solution was too costly, despite the power.

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eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 18, 2012

The RCAT (rapid content authoring tool) market continues to be healthy with nothing to slow it down – uh, except maybe one thing (more on that later). I am still surprised on how vendors who are offering assessment only tools are staying in the game. Perhaps their audience is unaware of LMSs who offer assessment tools.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 8, 2015

He was the founder and CEO of Authorware, a revolutionary eLearning authoring tool. Authorware merged with MacroMind/Paracomp to become Macromedia, which was later acquired by Adobe. As we know, Authorware became a groundbreaking authoring tool combining power and ease of use, and ultimately the industry standard.

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Instructional Design Authorware Blended Learning ADDIE 145

Learnnovators

JANUARY 7, 2015

He was the founder and CEO of Authorware, a revolutionary eLearning authoring tool. Authorware merged with MacroMind/Paracomp to become Macromedia, which was later acquired by Adobe. Learnnovators: You are known for your role as the primary architect in creating Authorware ?

Instructional Design 145

Instructional Design Authorware Blended Learning ADDIE 145

Upside Learning

MAY 7, 2010

Establishment of Flash as the de-facto development platform for custom eLearning creation allowing use of streaming audio/video over the web. Evolution of authoring tools like Articulate to become better & easier to work with reducing the cost of development. Birth of new Authoring Tools.

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Learning Technologies Authoring Tools Technology Simulations 271

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 1, 2012

He is the author of seven book including a best-seller on creating effective e-learning and in has received ASTD’s Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award in 2011. Rapid development tools and their promoters are, in my opinion, much at fault here. I began research to study the ADDIE process we were using.

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Instructional Design ADDIE Authoring Tools Conversation 254

Janet Clarey

OCTOBER 14, 2009

I’ve used a bunch of desktop authoring tools – Lectora, Dreamweaver, Authorware, Captivate, and Articulate to name a few. I haven’t really used a lot of web-based authoring tools though. I wish it had been around when I was pulling my hair out learning Authorware. Not my best work : ).

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Udutu Authoring Brandon Hall Authorware 36

Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Instead they just build everything from inside their authoring tool. A lot of this changed when we shifted from custom development in Flash and Authorware to Articulate Studio and PowerPoint. It’s just in the authoring tool and not a separate document. Why There’s No Need for a Storyboard.

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Storyboard Course Articulate Authorware 61

Clive on Learning

JANUARY 24, 2008

I had thought that, with my extravagant purchases, I was maintaining the Adobe share price all on my own, but the eLearning Guild's latest research report on authoring and development tools proves otherwise. Simulation tools: #1 Captivate (79%); #2 Flash (45%). Although that may well be an Adobe tool also!

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Authoring Tools Adobe Authorware Tools 40

Rapid eLearning

MARCH 13, 2018

I came into rapid e-learning from the world of Authorware and Flash where building courses took a lot of time and cost a lot more money. Today, most authoring solutions fall into the rapid e-learning bucket. So I’d say the authoring tools that were maligned ten years ago are now the tools of choice.

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Rapid eLearning Authoring Tools Compliance Training e-learning vendor 44

Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

The Rapid Elearning Blog. Almost daily I get emails asking how to get started with developing elearning. Here are five tips that will help you gain experience and develop the skills to build elearning courses that you can be proud of. The author has good before and after examples. Play Around with the Software.

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Rapid eLearning Blogging Authoring Tools eLearning Consultant 73

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 29, 2021

The latter included an authoring tool, too. Adobe Captivate – They were not the first authoring tool in the industry; Authorware was the first commercial success, heavily used with CBT, and then even into WBT (web-based). Lectora will note the same, but I never found it to be an RCAT.

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Learning System System Metrics Learn.com 105

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

[yes Mark, I know living blogging is soooo 90's ;-)] I'm sitting in the Friday morning session of the Adobe eLearning Summit. Its obvious that the authorware decison was a tough one for adobe. The basic idea is that Authorware has been used in the past to be the onsize fits all for elearning development. GREAT hosts!!!

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Authorware Adobe Eedo Atlantic Link 32

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 21, 2015

Recently I was doing a presentation on eLearning trends. During that presentation I realized that there are just a handful of people driving fundamental change in eLearning. These are the people who really change our landscape and have a big influence on my working eLearning life. ELearning Hero #1: Jay Cross.

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Instructional Design Authoring Tools eLearning xapi 100

TechSmith Camtasia

JULY 31, 2013

He has been authoring, directing, and producing many different eLearning and interactive training programs for over a decade. He was an avid Authorware (Macromedia) developer and has continued on over the years to create many different sources of educational materials including Interactive PDF’s, iBooks, and eBooks.

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Authoring Tools SnagIt Screencast Mac 76

Litmos

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve met people who had worked on the original SCORM standard, those driving the new xAPI standard, as well as early champions of our industry who coined the terms and built the original software tools. Through the 70s it was being marketed as a tool for retraining unemployed workers in new fields.

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CD-ROM Corporate eLearning Authoring Tools Wikipedia 40

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 15, 2008

You can find posts aggregated via eLearning Learning - 100 Conversations. Bill has quite a few questions in his post: eLearning is suffering from the Beta/VHS or Blu-ray/HD-DVD challenge. For example, it is elearning? eLearning? However, it all settled down to roughly Toolbook, Authorware and IconAuthor.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

Also, before you read these, you might want to go back and look at predictions in the past and how well I did on those predictions: Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 , 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009. Prediction #1 => Hacking Work At this time last year, I did my series Tool Set 2009. So, viewer discretion is advised.

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Predictions Diversity Training SharePoint Authoring Tools 200

Tony Karrer

MAY 25, 2006

Just when you've made the transition from the prior generation of CBT authoring tools (e.g., Authorware , Toolbook ) to the new generation of WBT authoring tools (e.g., To explain this, I need to step back and deal with the fact that terminology around eLearning Patterns is problematic. It is asynchronous.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 20, 2012

In a recent post, I shared my recent webinar with the E-Learning Guild and some of the conversation we had around rapid elearning. When I first started with elearning we’d have a team of people working on projects. It’s important to understand how people learn and how to build good elearning experiences. Instructional design.

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Authoring Tools Skills Rapid eLearning ASTD 79

Upside Learning

JUNE 15, 2009

Elearning development tools: only Adobe? Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). It blurred the boundaries between the design and development of eLearning content.

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Blended Learning eLearning Developer Blended Authoring Tools 178

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Vision of Future of Application and eLearning Development ) I found myself no longer recommending the use of RoboInfo or other similar programs for reference materials. But by far the most vivid memory of 2006 comes from a comment made during a panel that I was moderating on eLearning 2.0. tools inside organizations.

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Social Networks Wiki eLearning 2.0 Wikipedia 100

Upside Learning

JUNE 15, 2009

Elearning development tools: only Adobe? Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). It blurred the boundaries between the design and development of eLearning content.

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Blended Learning eLearning Developer Blended Compliance Training 178

Clive on Learning

JULY 4, 2007

Two situations recently have got me thinking about e-learning authoring tools. Secondly, I've been doing some work for a client of mine that has an LMS with some authoring capabilities, trying to compare what they have to offer with what's available elsewhere. Everybody's got an authoring tool. Why on earth not?

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Atlantic Link Authorware ViewletBuilder RapideL 40

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 12, 2011

Authoring tools whose interface either looks like to was written in 1997 (thus outdated) or is so confusing, that the premise of rapid, just is not possible. Quiz assessment tools and systems, that assume everyone wants to do T/F and M/C or Short Answer and T/F only. Authoring Tools (Rapid E-Learning).

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

On the flip side, there are a lot in the industry who aren’t necessarily anti PowerPoint, but they do lament the use of it in elearning because it “lacks interactivity&# or it seems so 1990’s. Apparently, PowerPoint is only for page-turners and non-interactive elearning. PowerPoint is just a tool.

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PowerPoint Authoring Tools Rapid eLearning Authorware 40

Upside Learning

JUNE 15, 2009

Elearning development tools: only Adobe? Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). It blurred the boundaries between the design and development of eLearning content.

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Blended Learning eLearning Developer Blended Authoring Tools 100

NuggetHead

MARCH 22, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Twitter LearnNuggets Nuggets of Learning Stuff Home About Resources Tags eLearning , ls2010 The E-Learning Foundations Intensive: Day 1 by Kevin on March 22nd, 2010 Today is Monday; the end of the day on Monday. This two-day program is designed for folks who are new to the world of eLearning.

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eLearning Guild Articulate Synchronous Authorware 49

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 19, 2010

As the evolution of e-learning continues, the rapid content authoring tools (RCAT) market follows suit. While the assumption would be that all the products are alike, or that fee based tools are superior to their free counterparts, nothing could be farther than the truth. Macromedia Authorware and similar products.

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Authoring Tools Authoring Market Tools 71

eLearning Brothers

OCTOBER 10, 2017

I’ve presented many times over the past couple years about the excitement and opportunity of the modern eLearning era. The Birth of eLearning. Dr. Michael Allen introduced Authorware in the 1980s and helped us leverage the personal computer and graphical user interface. Visualizing the eLearning Ecosystem. Learning Today.

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Blended Learning Social Networks eLearning Strategy Authorware 0

Learning Visions

APRIL 26, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. After a few years, I got involved in an IT initiative (then it was called MIS) -- designing a new software application to support our call center business. I did stand-up classroom sessions on the software. That led into training.

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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Authoring Tools 100

eLearning Brothers

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Being an eLearning Rockstar is more than just having flashy design with a whiz-bang quiz at the end. It’s about having a 360° understanding of the principles, ideas, and practicalities for successful eLearning. In this session, you will learn: To create responsive eLearning content. WEDNESDAY SESSIONS. John Blackmon, Trivantis.

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Compliance Training Blended Learning DevLearn Authoring Tools 116

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 20, 2011

Accepts any courses built in any content authoring tools that are SCORM & AICC compliant – so you can upload and sell your courses that you built in Articulate, Captivate, even open source authoring tools (but they must be standards compliant). Something like my 3rd party content authoring tool.

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Blended Learning Innovation Productivity Product 73

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 3, 2016

The first edition of Easygenerator was a CD-ROM tool based on Authorware. We developed our second generation of authoring tools, already cloud based, focused on professional developers, competing with tools like Articulate and Lectora. We date back to 1995. It lacked passion, it lacked a dream, it lacked a goal.

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Easygenerator Authoring Tools CD-ROM Authorware 50

Steve Howard

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The second was DevLearn, run by the eLearning Guild. Don’t underestimate the potential of this and any other tool that enables a backchannel to your training! Photoshop has tools built-in that you can use to test your designs for colour-blind viewers – see my previous blog post. • discussing a new authoring tool.

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DevLearn Adobe SharePoint Authorware 66