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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. From web activity streams, people started thinking about tracking other forms of activity. Learning Standards. Initially, when you developed eLearning, you were pretty much dependent on the tool you developed it in.

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Future of Learning Technology – 2015

Upside Learning

Establishment of Flash as the de-facto development platform for custom eLearning creation allowing use of streaming audio/video over the web. Dr. Michael Allen (creator of Authorware) is working on a new tool called Zebra (which he talks about here ) that would make engaging eLearning creation easy with drag and drop objects.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

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). Lectora will note the same, but I never found it to be an RCAT. Not full trailblazer, nevertheless some cool things taking place.

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People that inspire me: my 5 eLearning heroes

Challenge to Learn

He is also the one that made agile e-Learning development main stream with his book Leaving ADDIE for SAM. He fights against boring and bad eLearning and does that in a very constructive way. He wrote a ton of books, all of them are classics and must reads. There is nothing like it. But that is not all.

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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. It was a time of hipsters, Electronic Dance Music , Gangnam Style, eSports, mobile gaming, Mad Men and Game of Thrones, Tablet computing and streaming media , micro-learning and everything gamified. Corporate Training in the 2010's.

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

eLearning 24-7

Macromedia Authorware and similar products. While some could argue that Authorware was a RCAT, I disagree. If a RCAT vendor tells you they have been in business for over 10 years, they are somewhat misleading, since WBT courses really didn’t start to hit the mark until 2000 and then you have limited choices on how to build.