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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. Developers first discovered how to use Flash to build interactive websites and then the program evolved to using it to build games, movies, and experiences.

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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. Michael Allen and I sit down and discuss the Zebra program at ASTD conference way back in 2011. The costs were simply unsustainable.

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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. ” With support for short-term credential programs in high-demand skill areas like fluency in health and wellness technology, truck driving and HVAC repair, they’re working to provide careers beyond Walmart.

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What is eLearning?

Coassemble

There are also many different elements that can make up an learning program, such as live or pre-recorded lecture content, video, quizzes, simulations, games, activities, and other interactive elements.” — ATD. This because it’s been around the longest and still is cost-effective as far as in-person learning goes. Benefits to business.

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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 That's a shame.

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Michael Allen – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Authorware merged with MacroMind/Paracomp to become Macromedia, which was later acquired by Adobe. We use research and experience as a guideline, then reserve enough resources to modify our programs, perhaps several times, based on realized outcomes with our learners in the context in which they learn and perform.