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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

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. Other course authoring tools started to appear right after Authorware.

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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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Preference of E-Learning – Structured or not?

eLearning 24-7

So back then, we refererred to short content as short, or bytes of learning or nuggets. And for the longest time, folks in the corporate space saw blended as the most effective way to present content, knowledge and information. For the authorware supporters this was akin to blasting the planet with gamma rays. Mobile Learning?

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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. This drove the creation of the sharable content object reference model, which gained traction in the following decade. The Sharable Content Object Reference Model(SCORM) , standard was adopted by the U.S.

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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. And the first experiences as you tried to move your Authorware, IconAuthor or Toolbook course to run using their new web delivery solution? It was terrible! It was a major step back.

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Wanted – Instructional Designer

eLearning 24-7

Anyone who used Authorware can attest to that. If I say WAR and I am referring to baseball, and the ID person just writes down WAR without exploring what it means, then the course on baseball, will be far different. Anyway, joy was not there, because it required double the work. People can learn.

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Adobe shows off Captivate 4 and the Adobe eLearning Suite

Steve Howard

On the other hand if the developer does not agree that a change is required, or if he has a question about the feedback, he can type a note to that effect and send that information back to the tester. Table of Contents Captivate 4 introduces a new, powerful Table of Contents feature, referred to as TOC.

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