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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

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I was using DazzlerMax and Authorware, which are superior offerings for creating courses. Articulate and the person whose idea recognized that rapid course authoring was the way to go, establishing a considerable market even today, deserved huge kudos and a lot of money—probably got a pen. At the time, I hated it.

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The Latest: Rapid Content Authoring Tool Market

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Some vendors push heavily on PPT, implying that a great WBT is really a PPT converted to Flash. Listen, Authorware is dead, so why create a product that is trying to bring it back to life with your own product? SaaS – while desktop still rules, SaaS is slowly gaining converts. It isn’t. Please make it stop.

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How to select the right authoring tool

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In the authoring tool world: PowerPoint focused authoring tool, Basically you know PPT, love it and want the ability to build within it and then convert your PPT to a Course. 2004, AICC, PENS, TinCan) would be equally relevant. Nor would I select a tool that is really a PowerPoint converter. condo, house, etc. The best known.

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

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Is it PowerPoint converted to Flash? Microsoft Word converted to Flash? Macromedia Authorware and similar products. While some could argue that Authorware was a RCAT, I disagree. PowerPoint or Word converted to Flash, instant, virtually no add-ons, i.e. additional learning objects. Macromedia Director.