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Mobile Learning Moves the Evolution of Authoring Tools

Association eLearning

In response to the demand for more accessible authoring tools, Authorware was born. Using Authorware , learning professionals could create learning programs with hyper-simplistic designs, primarily through dragging and dropping icons. While powerful for their time, these tools were not easy to use, requiring complex programming skills.

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5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

To be a successful elearning designer means you have to know something about multimedia, graphic design, instructional psychology, and perhaps a little about Web and Flash technologies. Compared to building courses in Flash or Authorware, the rapid elearning tools are easy to use. This was developed by a Flash programmer.

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Storyline and ZebraZapps: seriously powerful, seriously simple

Clive on Learning

A few highlights: The demo I saw was running on a Mac, so that's a plus for me. It exports to HTML 5 as well as Flash, although I'm not sure they've perfected this yet. This is a big deal, because iPads and iPhones don't support Flash. Anyone who wanted to do top-end development had to do serious coding in Flash.

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Course Authoring Tools for eLearning Developers and the masses

eLearning 24-7

Sure, you can use the extensive list of tools on the market, but for those who want real power and complexity ala from the days of Authorware, pickings are slim. Flash course development toolkit - provides the source code, features include ability to load your movies, creates a table of contents and provides complete navigation control.

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MyUdutu: One of those best kept secrets in e-learning authoring tools

Janet Clarey

I’ve used a bunch of desktop authoring tools – Lectora, Dreamweaver, Authorware, Captivate, and Articulate to name a few. I had used the tool once a couple of years ago for a class and watched a demo of their Facebook integration over a year ago. I wish it had been around when I was pulling my hair out learning Authorware.

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E-learning Tools: A Developer’s Review of Adobe Captivate 7

SweetRush

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. It cannot compete with Adobe Flash or other platforms based on programming languages. What types of products can be created using Adobe Captivate 7?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Memoirs of an "Instructional Designer"

Learning Visions

She taught me the basics of instructional design, although looking back it wasnt much: Instruct, Demo, Practice, Assess. I learned Toolbook and Authorware on my own while in the program. It seems to me that a lot of companies really want a lot of the micro (the job descriptions require Flash, Captivate, etc.)