Just saw an Adobe announcement that they plan to discontinue development of Authorware. Goodbye Authorware. Since it was the first multimedia authoring tool I ever used, it certainly is bringing back some memories of some pretty cool work (and headaches). Thanks for the memorie

Adobe eLearning Solutions So, Ellen is talking about Authorware and IT's future in eLearning: 6 part plan 1)Business continuity 2)conversion 3)migration 4)enablement 5)develop the next gen leanring content authoring 6)improved communication Tom KIng will be acting as the Liaison for Adobe and the Authorware community to help this transition process. Its obvious that the authorware decison was a tough one for adobe. Adobe Learning Summit I finally have an opportunity to sit and live blog. [yes yes Mark, I know living blogging is soooo 90's ;-)] I'm sitting in the

While tools such as Toolbook and Authorware are down a bit. I was somewhat surprised that my post: Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction didn't generate more interest. You can see the detailed view of the sat numbers here . This data shows that the Articulate tools, Adobe Captivate and Dreamweaver and Lectora are near the top for elearning course authoring.

Altova XMLSpy CustomDoc Macromedia Authorware fro.. I don't know if I've seen this reported by the eLearningGuild , but their reports showed some interesting information about satisfaction levels reported by members on course authoring and rapid eLearning tool satisfaction levels. Unfortunately, my blog is not wide enough for these images, so click on the image to go to a page with the full size image.

In case you didn’t know, Michael was chief architect of Authorware, the precursor to Macromedia and granddaddy of digital authoring systems.) A t DevLearn 09 , Michael Allen gave us a peek at a new authoring system under development at Allen Interactions . (In His latest project, code-named Zebra, is a powerful, drag-and-drop authoring environment.

I’ve used a bunch of desktop authoring tools – Lectora, Dreamweaver, Authorware, Captivate, and Articulate to name a few. 8221; I wish it had been around when I was pulling my hair out learning Authorware. I haven’t really used a lot of web-based authoring tools though. I

Authorware , Toolbook ) to the new generation of WBT authoring tools (e.g., Just when you've made the transition from the prior generation of CBT authoring tools (e.g., Captivate , Lectora ), it looks like things are slowly shifting again. The shift I'm seeing is away from the design of pure "courseware" solutions and much more to "reference hybrid" solutions. To explain this, I need to step back and deal

Thus, I believe that rapid is only relative if you compare development to the ‘old days’ – which consisted of fairly large teams with fairly specialized talent (not excluding the folks using Director or Authorware!). The term ‘rapid elearning’ has befuddled me for some time. Beth's reference to "Rabid eLearning" in her recent blog post got me thinking about this topic once again.

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Ultimately Communities of Practice center around expertise. + Before - to build, it was a hassle (Authorware anyone?) + If you don't have connection to "Training" - you need to do something, right? like Sealund's offerings, Raptivity) - Freeform - blank screen and you can do whatever with blank screen (Flash, Authorware) PowerPoint is a nice authoring tool. Presentation: No Compromises Rapid eLearning Presenter: Tom Kuhlmann Rapid eLearning tools have democratized learning. - Everyone is an expert at "something." - Empowers people to share their expertise. -