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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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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. At the time, I hated it. Probably the best con artist of all time.

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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

Generally speaking pricing was high depending on something called “levels” Numerous Training execs, and those in L&D who embraced e-learning (and it was small), went elsewhere, primarily in India, which offered course development and thus courses at a significantly lower cost. Macromedia Dreamweaver came out with templates.

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My life…in elearning

Learning Visions

15 years ago I got a job as an instructional designer/multimedia producer at a company that created training programs delivered on CD ROMS. We had moved away from proprietary and were now using Macromedia Director. I had never heard of elearning and did not own a computer. It sounded really glamorous to me.

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How to Make E-Learning So People Really Learn: Q&A With Ethan Edwards

ATD Learning Technologies

Ethan has been designing online instruction for almost 25 years, beginning with work at the PLATO laboratory at the University of Illinois, continuing through positions at Authorware, Macromedia, Microsoft, and as a consultant with a host of top companies in the United States and abroad.

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The Content Conversion Cause - Abhijit Kadle

Aptara

The longer your company has been in business, the more you’ve been creating training material, which has resulted in large libraries of content in various forms. Since the advent of e-learning, Macromedia products were popular, and enormous quantities of content were generated using platforms like Director and Flash. Flash to HTML5.

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How to Speak Like an eLearning Pro

OpenSesame

Some other terms that are used interchangeably include: Computer Based Training (CBT), Internet Based Training (IBT), Web Based Training (WBT), Online Training, etc. Flash : Flash is a technology platform originally developed by Macromedia and later acquired and developed by Adobe systems.