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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. How do you think existing learning models need to evolve further to support workplace and social learning? How exciting is the scenario?

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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. How do you think existing learning models need to evolve further to support workplace and social learning? How exciting is the scenario?

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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. The IEEE has, in a related endeavor, is working on the Actionable Data Book, an ePUB standard (for ebooks) that supports social interaction and personalization based upon user actions. Learning Standards.

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Nuts and Bolts: The Best Lessons Learned in Instructional Design by Jane Bozarth

LearningGuild

Over the last 15 years, eLearning has evolved, from Authorware to PowerPoint to the proprietary tools and interactive, experiential, and social formats that we have today. The good news is that, while tools have come and gone and possibilities have expanded beyond imagining, some things haven’t changed.

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Future of Learning Technology – 2015

Upside Learning

Emergence of social media (and reviewed focus on social and informal learning). The LMS will evolve to support ( not manage ) Formal + Informal + Social + Non-Formal learning components. Evolution of authoring tools like Articulate to become better & easier to work with reducing the cost of development.

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Lessons from the past

dVinci Interactive

Other technological improvements followed rapidly – Windows 95 was a game-changer, as was the introduction of the PC authoring system Toolbook along with cross-platform tools like Director and Authorware. CD ROMs became easy to author, but they were soon supplanted by the ubiquity of the internet.

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

eLearning Cyclops

They provided just enough to make us dangerous with HTML, Flash, Photoshop and Authorware. No, I do not use Authorware now, but it is hard to predict what will be an essential tool 10 years down the road. Social/informal learning: Microblogging (e.g. Yammer or Twitter), blogs, social bookmarking (e.g. Second Life).