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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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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

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. Check out this article by O’Reilly , to get an idea of the war for the web that’s on. For eLearning (& mobile learning) I think Flash will remain the obvious tool till for some time.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

Instead, it was someone from Macromedia Dreamweaver, which is software for building websites. LTG, Macromedia, Adobe, and Smart ideas (for the most part) LTG acquiring Rustici (makers of the SCORM engine and Watershed LRS, among other items) is a great idea. The notion it is for the technology is a farce.

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How to Prepare for the End of the Flash

Magic EdTech

But with technology, the change happens faster than the speed of light. These organizations have been developing Flash content for education since Macromedia offered Flash 1.0 content will be usable if the Flash content is converted to some other technology. . In 1996, Macromedia bought FutureSplash and renamed it Flash.

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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. Conveniently, topics are segmented by Executive Management, Technology, Design & Development. Other publications include an eLearning Weekly Newsletter and other publications.

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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. Can we make a successful transition from eLearning to mLearning without Adobe Flash?

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My life…in elearning

Learning Visions

We had moved away from proprietary and were now using Macromedia Director. My children are adept at using these technologies. We flirted with creating early knowledge management systems and went out of business the next year. We should have stuck with what we were good at. I regularly use Facebook and Twitter and now Google +.

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