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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. Boring instruction ranges in effectiveness, but resides in the area of a total waste of time to an unfortunate loss of opportunity.

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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. Boring instruction ranges in effectiveness, but resides in the area of a total waste of time to an unfortunate loss of opportunity.

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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

Who knew this was not a good business plan? The dominating authoring tool by far, was Authorware. Authorware usage and fan base made Storyline supporters and usage look like a rock stage at a state fair. There are even fans today of Authorware, who if it was still around, would bounce right into it. Dinosaurs roamed.

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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. Over the last five years, we’ve seen that change because of efficient and effective rapid authoring tools. Can they transform content effectively and at a reasonable cost?

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What should we do?

eLearning 24-7

Should I write how EdTech scored a huge F this past year, with their continued believe that synchronous based learning is effective? Once again limiting companies, businesses, associations, and so on, to a few and not all? Should I write that assigned learning exists not just in LMSs, but LXPs – and has for a few years?

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Three Takeaways Today

eLearning 24-7

In the early days of e-learning course creation, you could either use your in-house instructional designer(s), self-teach yourself Authorware, DazzlerMax, and similar tools – or have your in-house ID person do it for you, outsource development to a 3rd party aka custom development for your proprietary course. No need, PPT is here!

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The 5 Myths of Rapid E-Learning Revisited

Rapid eLearning

I came into rapid e-learning from the world of Authorware and Flash where building courses took a lot of time and cost a lot more money. Without those goals, it’s a challenge to create measurable objectives and build effective courses. But I saw the light in the early 2000s when I started using Articulate Presenter.