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Can Captivate 9 Save Adobe?

LearnDash

Our relationship goes back a long way too as I can recall the days of using Captivate when it was owned by Macromedia. Articulate wasn’t the juggernaut that it is today, and aside from learning how to program Flash, Macromedia Captivate was your next best option. During those years there weren’t many other alternatives.

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Why the iPad and iPhone not supporting Adobe Flash is a Great thing for mLearning

mLearning Revolution

I have been and continue to be a big fan of Flash from my days when I worked at Macromedia and more recently at Adobe and was pretty ticked off when Apple posted Steve Job’s Thoughts on Flash.

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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

It is important for Adobe to partner with ARM to target support for future devices that are beyond mere mobile phones. Also there are strong reasons for HTML 5 not being able to replace Flash as pointed out by a former Macromedia person Jeremy Allaire in this article. Flash is already optimized for x86 which rules the desktop market.

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How to Prepare for the End of the Flash

Magic EdTech

These organizations have been developing Flash content for education since Macromedia offered Flash 1.0 In 2017, Adobe formally announced that it would no longer support the Flash player plug-in. In 1996, Macromedia bought FutureSplash and renamed it Flash. However, when the iPhone came out in 2007, it was without Flash support.

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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. They have their regular speaker experts and their annual conferences, and they have their industry vendors who help support the community. Here are ten reasons why you should support this organization.

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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

Authorware usage and fan base made Storyline supporters and usage look like a rock stage at a state fair. A product called Macromedia Flash (being used with web sites) became a go to for course development. Macromedia Dreamweaver came out with templates. Other course authoring tools started to appear right after Authorware.

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A Conversation with Michael Allen–ADDIE, SAM & the Future of ID

Kapp Notes

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. Proficiency in it took a long time to develop, often a couple of years or more. I began research to study the ADDIE process we were using. Individualization was a key concept.