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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

The dominating authoring tool by far, was Authorware. Now, go back to the late 90s into the early 2000’s, with instructional designers developing WBT courses (Web-Based Training) and e-learning developers. Authorware usage and fan base made Storyline supporters and usage look like a rock stage at a state fair.

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Mobile Learning Moves the Evolution of Authoring Tools

Association eLearning

For this post, I’d like to recap the evolution of authoring tools and talk about how Direct-to-WEB (D2W), Digitec’s cloud-based rapid eLearning authoring tool, has been designed to address these needs. In response to the demand for more accessible authoring tools, Authorware was born. Authoring Tools Find Balance with Rapid eLearning.

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The Content Conversion Cause - Abhijit Kadle

Aptara

As long as there was a need for animation, interaction, and engagement to be delivered over the web, Flash survived, mainly because authoring platforms meant for e-learning couldn’t provide the required sophistication. Over the last five years, we’ve seen that change because of efficient and effective rapid authoring tools.

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

Rapid eLearning

To be a successful elearning designer means you have to know something about multimedia, graphic design, instructional psychology, and perhaps a little about Web and Flash technologies. Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability : I love this book because you don’t need to read it. Learn from the Experts.

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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?

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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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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. For most workplace eLearning the implication of this is that we are going to be getting asked a lot more about whether content will be accessible and work on other devices, e.g., mobile web access, home access, etc.