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Michael Allen – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

He was the founder and CEO of Authorware, a revolutionary eLearning authoring tool. Authorware merged with MacroMind/Paracomp to become Macromedia, which was later acquired by Adobe. Michael: Each and every time I feel I’ve helped someone learn and gain a skill, I am energized to do my best to help more people build their abilities.

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MICHAEL ALLEN – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

He was the founder and CEO of Authorware, a revolutionary eLearning authoring tool. Authorware merged with MacroMind/Paracomp to become Macromedia, which was later acquired by Adobe. Michael: Each and every time I feel I’ve helped someone learn and gain a skill, I am energized to do my best to help more people build their abilities.

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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. And we want to know whether or how well someone did for critical business skills. An API is an Application Programming Interface, and what it specifically provides is a way for an application to make its data available to others.

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Mobile Learning Moves the Evolution of Authoring Tools

Association eLearning

In the early 1990s, the industry was largely dominated by PC-based applications that required programming to “author” computer-based training (CBT). While powerful for their time, these tools were not easy to use, requiring complex programming skills. Applications like TenCORE and WISE were popular choices.

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Lessons from the past

dVinci Interactive

Soon after, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh with Hypercard which, according to Steve Jobs, was an object oriented “programming language for the rest of us.” Now instructional designers weren’t constrained by the limited functions in programs like IconAuthor.

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Do You Have the Skills to Succeed?

Rapid eLearning

In today’s post we’ll look at another part of the conversation where we discussed what skills are needed to succeed and how they can be nurtured. Someone did the instructional design, someone else worked on graphics, and then we had a programmer who built the courses in Authorware or some other application. Acquiring Skills.

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Development Tools I Would Learn If I Were You - June's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

In my instructional design graduate program, UMBC , I took several courses that focused on development, but they really only scratched the surface. They provided just enough to make us dangerous with HTML, Flash, Photoshop and Authorware. Most of which gave me a good baseline for further developing my e-learning development skills.