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Can Captivate 9 Save Adobe?

LearnDash

Our relationship goes back a long way too as I can recall the days of using Captivate when it was owned by Macromedia. Articulate wasn’t the juggernaut that it is today, and aside from learning how to program Flash, Macromedia Captivate was your next best option. This is a natural step, and one that I am pleased to see.

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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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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

The Macintosh, with its free HyperCard program, also helped a generation of tech-savvy teachers make their own software and tutorials for students. Alongside CD-ROMs came Microsoft Powerpoint, a modern presentation software quickly embraced by lecturers, executives, teachers and students. 1990: The Development of Multimedia PC.

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How to Speak Like an eLearning Pro

OpenSesame

Each unit is not connected to any units presented before or after it. Flash : Flash is a technology platform originally developed by Macromedia and later acquired and developed by Adobe systems. This is done by using ‘Flash Player’, a program available for free download from the Adobe website. F2F : Face-to-face training.

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A Conversation with Michael Allen–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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Cultivating capability with Walmart’s Brandon Carson

CLO Magazine

” Over 20 years in California, Carson worked with tech companies such as Google, Macromedia and Adobe. Then in 2014, moving to retail at Home Depot presented Carson with an opportunity to transform L&D for frontline workers. That sparked the career […] and it took off from there.”

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Michael Allen – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Authorware merged with MacroMind/Paracomp to become Macromedia, which was later acquired by Adobe. We use research and experience as a guideline, then reserve enough resources to modify our programs, perhaps several times, based on realized outcomes with our learners in the context in which they learn and perform.