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My lifeā€¦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 had moved away from proprietary and were now using Macromedia Director. We created custom elearning programs in Flash. It sounded really glamorous to me.

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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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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. L&D cannot stop the creation of new training programs and focus on conversion/migration because it will affect business performance for years to come. Custom Content Services.

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A Conversation with Michael Allenā€“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. Our first thought was to build a better programming language than the one PLATO had.

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ScreencastCamper Profiles 2013: Dave Buell

TechSmith Camtasia

Dave and the rest of our Champs respond to customer questions, requests, feedback and more on a daily basis. He has been authoring, directing, and producing many different eLearning and interactive training programs for over a decade. They really care about their customers and listen to how they can be a better company.

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What is eLearning?

Coassemble

Your business and team push for a competitive advantage to stay ahead and remain relevant to your customers and industry. 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.ā€ ā€” ATD.

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Lesson I: Making your own Custom Articulate Player | LearnNuggets

NuggetHead

Skip to content Follow: RSS Twitter LearnNuggets Nuggets of Learning Stuff Home About Resources Tags articulate , eLearning , tutorial Lesson I: Making your own Custom Articulate Player by Kevin on May 20th, 2010 To kick things off, a note on the words: ā€œPlayerā€ and ā€œSkinā€. Hence, the main tool for building a Custom Community Player is Flash.

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