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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

You could use any of the many authoring tools, such as Authorware, but you needed an appropriate player. They wanted a standard, took a plausible set of standards from the work, and called it the Standard Courseware Object Reference Model (SCORM). SCORM was updated in 2004, and that is the existing standard for course delivery.

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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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People that inspire me: my 5 eLearning heroes

Challenge to Learn

He gave a workshop that I attended and we spoke briefly afterwards and exchanged business cards. There are four principles: Identify the business goal. The first big thing is that she connects learning to the business goals, and with that she helps to integrate learning into the business. But there is more.

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Training Standards

Tony Karrer

Where does SCORM fit into the picture? Should we demand that our product support SCORM? However, it all settled down to roughly Toolbook, Authorware and IconAuthor. In terms of SCORM, Almost always the answer is yes, authoring tools need to support it. But don't most tools support SCORM at this point?I

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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.

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A Brief Historical Look at Corporate Training

Litmos

I’ve met people who had worked on the original SCORM standard, those driving the new xAPI standard, as well as early champions of our industry who coined the terms and built the original software tools. Hypercard and Authorware both launched in 1987, making it easy to create multi-media programs. SCORM, and the SaaS based LMS.

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MyUdutu: One of those best kept secrets in e-learning authoring tools

Janet Clarey

I’ve used a bunch of desktop authoring tools – Lectora, Dreamweaver, Authorware, Captivate, and Articulate to name a few. I wish it had been around when I was pulling my hair out learning Authorware. SCORM conformant. The business model they use is really one of added value. Semi-complex branching.

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