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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

Someone came up with the idea to create templates for developing courses quickly – and no, it wasn’t someone from Adobe or Articulate. Instead, it was someone from Macromedia Dreamweaver, which is software for building websites. I was using DazzlerMax and Authorware, which are superior offerings for creating courses.

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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

Boutique shops for custom course development were springing up faster than you could say Sock Puppet (Pets.com). A product called Macromedia Flash (being used with web sites) became a go to for course development. Did I mention that going with a 3rd party custom dev shop to create a Level 1 or 2 course might take six months?

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My life…in elearning

Learning Visions

15 years ago I got a job as an instructional designer/multimedia producer at a company that created training programs delivered on CD ROMS. We flirted with creating early knowledge management systems and went out of business the next year. We had moved away from proprietary and were now using Macromedia Director.

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10 Reasons to Join The eLearning Guild

Web Courseworks

I remember the days when Web Courseworks’ customers did not have online course instructional developers or designers and LMS administrators on staff. Colleges were just starting to offer Photoshop courses and were just including HTML and Macromedia in their curriculum.

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How to Make E-Learning So People Really Learn: Q&A With Ethan Edwards

ATD Learning Technologies

Ethan has been designing online instruction for almost 25 years, beginning with work at the PLATO laboratory at the University of Illinois, continuing through positions at Authorware, Macromedia, Microsoft, and as a consultant with a host of top companies in the United States and abroad.

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

Kapp Notes

He is the author of seven book including a best-seller on creating effective e-learning and in has received ASTD’s Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award in 2011. KK: 5) Can you give an example of how SAM has been used to create an e-learning product? KK: 6) Thanks, that’s a great example.

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The Content Conversion Cause - Abhijit Kadle

Aptara

The longer your company has been in business, the more you’ve been creating training material, which has resulted in large libraries of content in various forms. Since the advent of e-learning, Macromedia products were popular, and enormous quantities of content were generated using platforms like Director and Flash. Will you be ready?