dVinci Interactive

MARCH 23, 2012

As I leave for retirement today, I’ve seen quite a few technology changes in the field of training and development myself. Other technological improvements followed rapidly – Windows 95 was a game-changer, as was the introduction of the PC authoring system Toolbook along with cross-platform tools like Director and Authorware.

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CD-ROM Lesson Instructional Design Toolbook 160

Upside Learning

MAY 7, 2010

I can only wonder at the pace of change of technology that the world has seen in last decade. Various domains have their own pace of change – as this graphic from this article shows: Did you notice the pace of change? It is governed by community law and it’s an astronomical number as more people join the community.

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Learning Technologies Authoring Tools Technology Simulations 271

Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Rapid E-Learning Changed Things. A lot of this changed when we shifted from custom development in Flash and Authorware to Articulate Studio and PowerPoint. It was also an easy way to show what other assets were required and the extra production required to deliver the course.

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Storyboard Course Articulate Authorware 61

Aptara

JUNE 10, 2019

Over the last five years, we’ve seen that change because of efficient and effective rapid authoring tools. legacy tools/platforms (Authorware, Director, etc.) By mid-2020, a sea change in the e-learning development landscape is expected. PowerPoint to the online e-learning. paper-based, instructor-led to digital online (vILT).

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Conversation CD-ROM Flash to HTML5 Conversion Content 45

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 29, 2021

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. I love nearly everything with Schoox.

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Learning System System Metrics Learn.com 105

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Then there are “this is what I will write” only to change my mind at the last second. we still can’t pass a 3 Trillion dollars infrastructure bill to fix our crumbling highways, bridges (which everyone gripes about), invest in solar and other green technologies to counter climate change. Again, have and have not.

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White Label vendor Authorware Budget 83

eLearning Cyclops

JUNE 3, 2010

They provided just enough to make us dangerous with HTML, Flash, Photoshop and Authorware. No, I do not use Authorware now, but it is hard to predict what will be an essential tool 10 years down the road. Most of which gave me a good baseline for further developing my e-learning development skills. I have experienced both situations.

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Big Question Flash to HTML5 Conversion DHTML Dreamweaver 100

eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I “grew-up&# in eLearning world using Director/Authorware and then moving into Flash/HTML (PPT was “off-limits&# ). At first I was very anti-PPT, however I have changed my tune a bit in the past few years. Using these new tools meant that I had to start using PPT.

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PowerPoint eLearning Tools PPT Tools 114

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 21, 2015

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. You can buy it as a book but they are constantly changing it, you can follow the changes here.

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Instructional Design Authoring Tools eLearning xapi 100

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 1, 2012

He founded the computer-based course authoring tool Authorware in 1984 and later formed Macromedia through a merger which was then bought by Adobe Systems. By actively looking for things to change rather than trying to inhibit changes as work progresses, it welcomes creative ideas as they emerge—even fairly late in the process.

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Instructional Design ADDIE Authoring Tools Conversation 254

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 20, 2013

If you are an Authorware fanatic missing the old days, you are still going to miss it – because while these capabilities are being added to tools they are still not at the level of Authorware. Thankfully that is also changing. You could also change the text. Audio Editing. Another feature on the rise.

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Authoring Market Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion 74

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 13, 2013

Some vendors have finally woken up and changed it to a crisp and modern interface, but as a whole, dated seems to the choice. In the same conversation not more than 30 minutes later, they told me they were changing their user interface. Do you think this is going to change? User Interface – Still a huge issue.

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SumTotal Blogging vendor Saba 73

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. A lot has changed over the past ten years, so I think it’s a good time to revisit some of those issues and see where we stand. That’s definitely a big change from ten years ago.

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Rapid eLearning Authoring Tools Compliance Training e-learning vendor 44

Tony Karrer

JULY 20, 2009

The keywords on left side are changed to keywords which are more closely associated with that term. And now, because of eLearning Learning , I have a much better way to track these things over a much more interesting content sets. For example, we see terms now at the top like Learning Management System , AICC , SCORM.

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Blended Learning Association Learning Management System Folksonomy eLearning Strategy 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 4, 2007

We are going to be going through Disruptive Changes in Learning. Signs of the times: End of an Era - Authorware Dies , InfoWorld Folds Print Magazine When you name your kids, consider personal search - Personal Search - and Naming Your Kids. Enterprise Use. The way people find you can be amusing: Top Ten Subliminal Searches.

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Social Networks Wiki eLearning 2.0 Wikipedia 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 15, 2008

However, it all settled down to roughly Toolbook, Authorware and IconAuthor. The amount of innovation and change and number of choices definitely makes it harder to decide how to approach things. When CBT (CD-ROM based multimedia training) came out, there were a lot of different authoring tools and approaches that came along with it.

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Standards CD-ROM Oracle Qarbon 100

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 28, 2013

52% – Ability for learners to instantly change language within the course – I’m not talking about the UI in the LMS, I’m talking about specifically the course itself. you speak into your mic and the product makes the changes). The top five. 62% – A video authoring tool (i.e.

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Survey Authoring Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion 72

Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

Compared to building courses in Flash or Authorware, the rapid elearning tools are easy to use. Another site that I like is Making Change. There are a lot of other good books I could recommend, but this is a good start and covers a lot of the basics. Feel free to recommend other good books in the comments section.

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Rapid eLearning Blogging Authoring Tools eLearning Consultant 73

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 1, 2017

Afterwards, when you make changes to the course, fix it and push. The world of authoring tools started at the advanced level, Authorware, Toolbook and to an extent DazzlerMax. The problem though was that folks who had the authorware and so forth experience AND/OR folks who were ID and e-learning developers were stuck.

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Authoring Trends Tools Micro-Learning 60

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 12, 2011

1 vendor does an initial full customization, then if at a latter point you need to make a couple of standard changes, they need to come back and do more customization, which at that point is not free. One vendor follows this approach, if you want to change the menu labels on the front end, at a latter point with your system.

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Authoring Tools vendor NexLearn Authorware 68

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

The weapons including Authorware, Macromedia Director, DazzlerMax, Toolbook were the ones that separated the knights from the common folk. The King quickly realized the situation was changing. “How, can it be?” Eventually the land saw Macromedia Breeze and Dreamweaver enter the lands, with these items called templates.

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Instructional Design Macromedia Toolbook Authorware 68

SweetRush

MARCH 19, 2014

In this article we dig deeper into the capabilities of Adobe Captivate 7 as we help you evaluate e-learning tools for your own use by answering some questions about e-learning authorware. What types of products can be created using Adobe Captivate 7? It cannot compete with Adobe Flash or other platforms based on programming languages.

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Adobe Captivate Authoring Tools Captivate Adobe 77

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The majority of people creating the courses used authoring tools, such as Authorware (difficult to learn, but robust), Dazzler Max (I used it, learning curve though), Lectora (difficult to learn) and many others that existed then. Training management was really an LMS, but soon changed to like I said, scheduling.

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Compliance Training Association LMS Association Learning Management System LMS 81

Litmos

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Hypercard and Authorware both launched in 1987, making it easy to create multi-media programs. The changing Internet landscape needed a different kind of standard. The computers were great, but software was lacking. Users wanted to create their own programs without needing to know programming and thus, the authoring tool was born.

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CD-ROM Corporate eLearning Authoring Tools Wikipedia 40

eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 20, 2014

New Slide – Create a new page, chapter, lesson, whatever, generally speaking Slide screams PPT and no offense to the person who has been doing ID for x number of years, if you said “slide” to someone working on Authorware back in the day, you would have gotten a head slap. The Ribbon makes change and I am off to the races.

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Articulate Productivity Product Authoring Tools 69

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 18, 2012

Listen, Authorware is dead, so why create a product that is trying to bring it back to life with your own product? Barely moving (please change that). They ignored the obvious, believing that their product will always be great, so why change? Change is invetiable. Thus, ease of use is a strong requirement.

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Authoring Tools Authoring Market Tools 76

Clive on Learning

MAY 23, 2007

The creator of Authorware and long-time instructional design guru created something of a stir (at least with me) when he announced his dissatisfaction with the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation) model for e-learning development and put his not inconsiderable weight behind a new process of 'successive approximation'.

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Instructional Design ADDIE Create Authorware 40

Upside Learning

JUNE 15, 2009

Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). last year changed that. Elearning development tools: only Adobe? Perhaps not better than Flash, but at least its equal? Till the release of Silverlight 1.1,

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Blended Learning eLearning Developer Blended Compliance Training 178

Upside Learning

JUNE 15, 2009

Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). last year changed that. Elearning development tools: only Adobe? Perhaps not better than Flash, but at least its equal? Till the release of Silverlight 1.1,

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Blended Learning eLearning Developer Blended Authoring Tools 178

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

And the first experiences as you tried to move your Authorware, IconAuthor or Toolbook course to run using their new web delivery solution? Do you remember the horrific feeling when you learned what it was going to take to author something to run over the web? That you couldn’t really do audio or video or much of anything else over the web?

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Predictions Diversity Training SharePoint Authoring Tools 200

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Anyone who used Authorware can attest to that. You are wanting to see how they think, can they process the content and change it to action. So, you may want to change the wordage. Anyway, joy was not there, because it required double the work. You want them to write this down. Action leads to interactivity and engagement.

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Instructional Design Authoring Tools Instructional Instruction 40

Upside Learning

JUNE 15, 2009

Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). last year changed that. Elearning development tools: only Adobe? Perhaps not better than Flash, but at least its equal? Till the release of Silverlight 1.1,

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Blended Learning eLearning Developer Blended Authoring Tools 100

Learning Visions

APRIL 26, 2007

I learned Toolbook and Authorware on my own while in the program. Is this change for the sake of change because newer technology is available? As IDs, we should always error on the side of instructional necessity before we lean towards change for the sake of change. The degree opens many doors but thats about it.

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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Authoring Tools 100

eLearning Brothers

OCTOBER 12, 2017

How games stimulate mental cognition and produce positive brain changes. The changing state of the e-learning industry offers new opportunities, but also poses new challenges. In this session, you will learn: How playing games can improve problem-solving skills and learning abilities.

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Compliance Training Blended Learning DevLearn Authoring Tools 116

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 19, 2010

Macromedia Authorware and similar products. While some could argue that Authorware was a RCAT, I disagree. That has changed. We are in an age where change happens faster then ever before and at the end of the day, the players who will be standing – will see it, grasp it and revolutionize it. Macromedia Director.

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Authoring Tools Authoring Market Tools 71

Steve Howard

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

If the developer makes a change based on the feedback, he can mark the item as fixed. On the other hand if the developer does not agree that a change is required, or if he has a question about the feedback, he can type a note to that effect and send that information back to the tester. Captivate 4 will change this significantly.

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Adobe Suite Captivate ActionScript 40

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 3, 2016

The first edition of Easygenerator was a CD-ROM tool based on Authorware. Incredibly enough they allowed me to change everything and they made it financially possible to do this. Just to give you a small example how big this change has been: 2 years ago we sold 99% of our licenses through a network of partners.

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Easygenerator Authoring Tools CD-ROM Authorware 50