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How to Prepare for the End of the Flash

Magic EdTech

These organizations have been developing Flash content for education since Macromedia offered Flash 1.0 In 1996, Macromedia bought FutureSplash and renamed it Flash. During its heyday, Flash was the “be all and end all” for web interactivity and it was at this time that Adobe bought Macromedia. Review the Flash source code.

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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

Generally speaking pricing was high depending on something called “levels” Numerous Training execs, and those in L&D who embraced e-learning (and it was small), went elsewhere, primarily in India, which offered course development and thus courses at a significantly lower cost. Macromedia Dreamweaver came out with templates.

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The Content Conversion Cause - Abhijit Kadle

Aptara

Since the advent of e-learning, Macromedia products were popular, and enormous quantities of content were generated using platforms like Director and Flash. It is far more cost-effective and quicker to convert content than to develop it from scratch, which requires effort that may be better spent on business-critical training.

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A Conversation with Michael Allen–ADDIE, SAM & the Future of ID

Kapp Notes

He founded the computer-based course authoring tool Authorware in 1984 and later formed Macromedia through a merger which was then bought by Adobe Systems. The costs were simply unsustainable. We were spending millions of dollars on courseware development.

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Storyline and ZebraZapps: seriously powerful, seriously simple

Clive on Learning

No announcements yet, but I guess Storyline will cost something similar to Articulate Studio, so that's over $1000. Michael was, of course, the creator of Authorware, a highly powerful tool from the CD-ROM era, which Adobe eventually gave up on after they inherited it from Macromedia. There is a low-cost, $8.99

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What is eLearning?

Coassemble

This because it’s been around the longest and still is cost-effective as far as in-person learning goes. eHelp was acquired by Macromedia in 2003, and then in 2005, Adobe acquired Macromedia. Most eLearning programs are implemented because of the attractive reduction in cost to teach employees valuable skills.

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Cultivating capability with Walmart’s Brandon Carson

CLO Magazine

” Over 20 years in California, Carson worked with tech companies such as Google, Macromedia and Adobe. . “I got involved at the beginning, developing the instructional design aspect of it,” Carson says. That sparked the career […] and it took off from there.”

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