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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

Which is a preface to talk about learning standards, and the field is quite dynamic right now. Learning Standards. You could use any of the many authoring tools, such as Authorware, but you needed an appropriate player. The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative of the Department of Defense finally had enough.

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Adobe Summit Day 2 - Authorware and the future of e-Learning

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Adobe Learning Summit I finally have an opportunity to sit and live blog. Its obvious that the authorware decison was a tough one for adobe. 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.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

I thought about this, as you can tell, and said to myself, okay, let’s write a post where the e-learning history and thus learning systems, authoring tools, and alike are intertwined with good and bad ideas. Acquisitions Any company that acquires another – in our case, a learning system- always thinks it is a great idea.

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Lessons from the past

dVinci Interactive

Computers weren’t fast enough to play video, nor were the hard drives large enough – even though the brochure for my stock IBM AT said it contained a “whooping 20 MB hard drive” – so we used a videodisc player connected through a serial cable. So how did her students learn, even thrive, using such primitive technology?

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

April's Big Question from Learning Circuits is "How to Keep up?" However, being involved in an e-learning community is a big help. This is in reference the immense and rapidly expanding technology tools. It is tough to stay on top of all the emerging tools. For me it is a blog community and following many experts on Twitter.

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Storyline and ZebraZapps: seriously powerful, seriously simple

Clive on Learning

It borrows much of the Microsoft Office look and feel, including the ribbon interface, so it's easy to learn, but inherits none of the limitations. Apart from games, e-learning is one of its last remaining niches. Authorware was a serious tool that you could use for serious projects, but with a friendly interface.

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Course Authoring Tools for eLearning Developers and the masses

eLearning 24-7

Geared toward e-learning developers and instructional designers. The biggest problem facing the industry in the past few years are the lack of course authoring tools for e-learning developers and instructional designers. MLOAT - Multimedia Learning Object Authoring Tool. Multiple learning paths or branching. Gamification.