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10 Reasons to Join The eLearning Guild

Web Courseworks

Colleges were just starting to offer Photoshop courses and were just including HTML and Macromedia in their curriculum. I try to attend a Guild conference every other year and alternate between Learning Solutions Conference and DevLearn.

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Michael Allen describes the future of authoring systems

Jay Cross

A t DevLearn 09 , Michael Allen gave us a peek at a new authoring system under development at Allen Interactions. (In In case you didn’t know, Michael was chief architect of Authorware, the precursor to Macromedia and granddaddy of digital authoring systems.).

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Storyline and ZebraZapps: seriously powerful, seriously simple

Clive on Learning

Here at DevLearn 2011 in Las Vegas I've got authoring tools on my mind. You can build templates and themes and share these between projects and developers. Michael was, of course, the creator of Authorware, a highly powerful tool from the CD-ROM era, which Adobe eventually gave up on after they inherited it from Macromedia.