eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Let us take a trip back to the late 90s and 2000. Now, go back to the late 90s into the early 2000’s, with instructional designers developing WBT courses (Web-Based Training) and e-learning developers. A product called Macromedia Flash (being used with web sites) became a go to for course development. Dinosaurs roamed.

Instructional Design 79

Instructional Design Authoring Tools Instructional Instruction 79

SHIFT eLearning

APRIL 24, 2014

Early 2000s: The Dot Com Boom. The World Wide Web became mainstream, thanks to investors throwing money at anything web-related between1995 and 2000. In 2005, Adobe bought Macromedia and transformed it into Adobe Flash. CD-ROMs quickly became a thing of the past. From the read-only environment of Web 1.0,

CD-ROM 107

CD-ROM Flash to HTML5 Conversion Authoring Tools Flash 107

Rapid eLearning

MAY 18, 2015

Articulate Presenter was around well before eHelp (one of the leading companies) was purchased by Macromedia that was purchased by Adobe. So while all of this happened in the early 2000’s, rapid elearning and PowerPoint-based authoring didn’t really start to take off until around 2008 or so.

Rapid eLearning 40

Rapid eLearning Free Flash PowerPoint 40

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 19, 2010

If a RCAT vendor tells you they have been in business for over 10 years, they are somewhat misleading, since WBT courses really didn’t start to hit the mark until 2000 and then you have limited choices on how to build. Macromedia Authorware and similar products. Macromedia Director. HTML and Javascript.

Authoring Tools 71

Authoring Tools Authoring Market Tools 71