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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

Instructional designers were getting ready to be in high demand, especially in the corporate world. Instructional technologists was a term, many folks had heard of. Now, go back to the late 90s into the early 2000’s, with instructional designers developing WBT courses (Web-Based Training) and e-learning developers.

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How to Prepare for the End of the Flash

Magic EdTech

This is nowhere more visible than with the 2020 mandate to end flash support.For edtech companies and ed publishers, it’s a case of “objects in mirror are closer than they appear.”. These organizations have been developing Flash content for education since Macromedia offered Flash 1.0 What exactly is Flash?

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Learning Flash

Tony Karrer

My posts around the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash and my post from a CTO perspective that I Cannot Bet on Flash for new development stirred up quite a bit of response. And that Flash provides things that you can’t do in HTML/JavaScript. However, there are some pretty amazing things you can do without Flash.

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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. I learned my first ID model: instruct, demo, practice, assess. I had never heard of the term "instructional designer" before. We created custom elearning programs in Flash.

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Learn How to Build Effective E-Learning with this Free E-Book

Rapid eLearning

In 2007, most of the options for creating interactive elearning required Flash. If you wanted to build courses, you were required to either learn Flash or hire a Flash programmer. But along came the PowerPoint-to-Flash products. They enabled people to create their content in PowerPoint and convert it to the Flash.

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The Year in Learning: 2019 Edition

The Learning Dispatch

The stories are grouped in several categories: Accessibility Instructional Design Learning Experience Evaluation Inspiration Professionalism Program Design Visual Design. Instructional Design. that is, Macromedia Flash.). Accessibility. Are McLaughlin’s solutions applicable in a similar way?

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

eLearning 24-7

Is it PowerPoint converted to Flash? Microsoft Word converted to Flash? Macromedia Authorware and similar products. Macromedia Director. The Macromedia set typically would toss in Director, which created an equally impressive array of course capabilities, but a deep learning curve. HTML and Javascript.