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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

The Pathgather acquisition, was a total customer buy, despite what they may say. Adobe Captivate – They were not the first authoring tool in the industry; Authorware was the first commercial success, heavily used with CBT, and then even into WBT (web-based). Skills building/development/ongoing feature sets are awesome.

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What should we do?

eLearning 24-7

Should I write about the CLO role (not everyone but plenty) who push hard on new learning technologies because their companies can afford it – such as custom VR content, even though, overall other companies can’t – creating a have and have not? Plus the updates and maintenance component, which everyone gets?

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Do You Storyboard Your E-Learning Courses?

Rapid eLearning

On top of that, working with customers and getting them to “see” what we were building was a challenge because it wasn’t as easy and quick to prototype the courses back then. A lot of this changed when we shifted from custom development in Flash and Authorware to Articulate Studio and PowerPoint.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

I was using DazzlerMax and Authorware, which are superior offerings for creating courses. I didn’t like it and saw no benefit since Cornerstone already had a legit LXP in their system, including the whole skills piece, the third-party content, and the other standards. At the time, I hated it. It is sort of in the middle.

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Megan Torrance shares her career journey

CLO Magazine

After getting a bachelor’s in communication and an MBA, I joined Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), learned Authorware (an early e-learning authoring tool) and how to write training guides … then was never staffed on a project where that was my role. And that’s when my work in custom course development really got its start.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

Most of it came, via 3rd party providers, or what we referred to as “boutique shops” – think custom development (fee-based) that someone, company, government, institution, and so forth hired to create a course or courses. What to learn a new skill? Of course they could learn a new skill. BB dominated.

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5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

Here are five tips that will help you gain experience and develop the skills to build elearning courses that you can be proud of. Compared to building courses in Flash or Authorware, the rapid elearning tools are easy to use. You might not always succeed, but you’ll learn a lot and you’ll really expand your skills.