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Lessons from the past

dVinci Interactive

Other technological improvements followed rapidly – Windows 95 was a game-changer, as was the introduction of the PC authoring system Toolbook along with cross-platform tools like Director and Authorware. CD ROMs became easy to author, but they were soon supplanted by the ubiquity of the internet.

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Mars Colony 01: A Journey Into JavaScript and Gamification

Adobe Captivate

System assigned performance “Level” based on quiz performance. This section of the project required the most coding in order create the functions for the countdown timer, the toggle buttons used in the test and the calculation of test performance. Key feature highlights include a: Learner selected avatar and name.

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DevLearn 2011 – Notes from One ID Challenge and HTML5 Authoring Tool Review

E-learning Uncovered

And some of the biggest motivation for me came from two pictures that were stuck in the back of the PPT that the client had previously used for webinars: The "safe" side of a fire-safe door that is performing as designed.and the devastation wreaked by a fire on the other side of that same door. HTML5 Authoring Tool Review.

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DevLearn 2011 – Notes from My Presentations

E-learning Uncovered

And some of the biggest motivation for me came from two pictures that were stuck in the back of the PPT that the client had previously used for webinars: The "safe" side of a fire-safe door that is performing as designed.and the devastation wreaked by a fire on the other side of that same door. HTML5 Authoring Tool Review.

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How to Become a Digital CLO

CLO Magazine

In 1994, software company Asymetrix released ToolBook, a computer-based training authoring tool that made it possible for virtually anyone to create web-based training programs. It was a defining moment that changed the way companies think about how and where employees learn.

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Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids

Tony Karrer

Authorware , Toolbook ) to the new generation of WBT authoring tools (e.g., Most of the content is presented as static web pages that tell how to perform particular tasks, but some of the pages contain embedded Captivate movies to demonstrate or simulate use of the system.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

And the first experiences as you tried to move your Authorware, IconAuthor or Toolbook course to run using their new web delivery solution? Time to performance and other metrics will be far more important as a result. That you couldn’t really do audio or video or much of anything else over the web? It was terrible!