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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

2005: The Rise of Flash Video. In 2005, Adobe bought Macromedia and transformed it into Adobe Flash. Developers who worked with it discovered just how flexible Flash is. Flash didn''t require a lot of bandwidth as older methods would have used. simulations or serious games.' Mobile learning.

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Important Features of an Ideal Rapid Authoring Tool

CommLab India

Videos are effective in engaging learners and communicating information quickly and easily. According to The eLearning Guild report, tool users wanted video features such as the ability to: Embed video files. Trigger video in interactions. Link to external or web video files. Set video quality.

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Adobe shows off Captivate 4 and the Adobe eLearning Suite

Steve Howard

In his example, RJ showed us how to embed the variable into a caption, using the syntax $$myVar$$ so that instructions to the user could use the recorded name, instead of a non-personal command. Once the new project is created, developers can begin capturing simulations or adding slides, captions, animations etc.

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