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The Content Conversion Cause - Abhijit Kadle

Aptara

Director died alongside CD-ROMs, taking Shockwave with it, but Flash hung around. . 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? legacy tools/platforms (Authorware, Director, etc.)

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Mobile Learning Moves the Evolution of Authoring Tools

Association eLearning

In response to the demand for more accessible authoring tools, Authorware was born. Using Authorware , learning professionals could create learning programs with hyper-simplistic designs, primarily through dragging and dropping icons. So, simplicity was there for the author, but at the cost of effective learner engagement.

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A Brief Historical Look at Corporate Training

Litmos

Hypercard and Authorware both launched in 1987, making it easy to create multi-media programs. Mailing CD-ROM courses to offices around the world was significantly cheaper than regularly sending instructors to the same sites. Both of which are already well established as effective learning solutions in corporate training.

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Storyline and ZebraZapps: seriously powerful, seriously simple

Clive on Learning

Michael was, of course, the creator of Authorware, a highly powerful tool from the CD-ROM era, which Adobe eventually gave up on after they inherited it from Macromedia. Authorware was a serious tool that you could use for serious projects, but with a friendly interface. That's a shame.

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Preference of E-Learning – Structured or not?

eLearning 24-7

And for the longest time, folks in the corporate space saw blended as the most effective way to present content, knowledge and information. And there is plenty of insight showing that anytime, anywhere learning that is non-linear is more effective that following an agenda, point by point, ILT. . No one said anything.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

It puts forward lots of suggestions for how knowledge workers can leverage technology to make themselves more effective. It was the time when we delivered multimedia training on CD-ROMs (sometimes called CBTs)? She learned how to be an effective participant and this helped propel her to become a designer.