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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.

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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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What is eLearning?

Coassemble

This because it’s been around the longest and still is cost-effective as far as in-person learning goes. The App Store made a huge impact on how web developers would design for small screens and eventually mobile-responsive web pages. eHelp was acquired by Macromedia in 2003, and then in 2005, Adobe acquired Macromedia.

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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. The App Store made a huge impact on how web developers would design for small screens and eventually mobile-responsive web pages. eHelp was acquired by Macromedia in 2003, and then in 2005, Adobe acquired Macromedia.

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Flash: an End of an Era – What You Need To Know

Aptara

In 1996 Macromedia first introduced the Flash Player, developed to play videos, animations, and audio and to support enhanced interactivity in web browsers. Over the years web browsers matured and so did Flash Player, which became the most widely used plug-in to play multimedia elements on a web page.

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Using Silverlight/Expression Blend for eLearning Development

Upside Learning

Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). Although, it is supported in Silverlight Windows Application (WPF application which is standalone), there is no direct method to sync audio with onscreen content for web-application.