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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

The other day, I was listening to an audiobook, and the author spoke about ideas. I thought about this, as you can tell, and said to myself, okay, let’s write a post where the e-learning history and thus learning systems, authoring tools, and alike are intertwined with good and bad ideas. At the time, I hated it.

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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

For those of us who were there the first time around, we saw quite a bit with e-learning and the world for online corporate learning. The idea of rapid content authoring, was non-existent. The dominating authoring tool by far, was Authorware. Other course authoring tools started to appear right after Authorware.

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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 a former life as a product of FutureWave Software, Flash was known as SmartSketch, graphics editor pen computing on the Mac. In 1996, Macromedia bought FutureSplash and renamed it Flash. What exactly is Flash?

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

Kapp Notes

Allen is a leader in the field of design, developing and delivering online instruction. He is the author of seven book including a best-seller on creating effective e-learning and in has received ASTD’s Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award in 2011. KK: 6) Thanks, that’s a great example.

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The Content Conversion Cause - Abhijit Kadle

Aptara

Since the advent of e-learning, Macromedia products were popular, and enormous quantities of content were generated using platforms like Director and Flash. Over the last five years, we’ve seen that change because of efficient and effective rapid authoring tools. PowerPoint to the online e-learning. Flash to HTML5.

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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

The Macintosh, with its free HyperCard program, also helped a generation of tech-savvy teachers make their own software and tutorials for students. Commercial software companies were quick to develop computer-based educational materials and learning games as well. emphasizes on how we learn—how we interact with content online.

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Michael Allen – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

He was the founder and CEO of Authorware, a revolutionary eLearning authoring tool. Authorware merged with MacroMind/Paracomp to become Macromedia, which was later acquired by Adobe. As we know, Authorware became a groundbreaking authoring tool combining power and ease of use, and ultimately the industry standard.