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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

Instead, it was someone from Macromedia Dreamweaver, which is software for building websites. LTG, Macromedia, Adobe, and Smart ideas (for the most part) LTG acquiring Rustici (makers of the SCORM engine and Watershed LRS, among other items) is a great idea. At the time, I hated it.

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We're All New at This

ATD Learning Technologies

I was sequestered in a conference room during Plugfest 9 with Philip Dodds, chief architect of the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM™) and a few people on the ADL technical team. With us was Tom King, who helped create Authorware. Click here to read full version.

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Development Tools - Should I Cut Out the Middle Guy?

eLearning Cyclops

Back when I first started developing e-learning courses, I used Macromedia's Authorware. It has gotten to a point where some of my courses are all developed in Flash and the e-learning authoring tools (DHTML) have been used more as a "shell" that decompiles it as a SCORM package.

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My Top 10 e-Learning Tools

eLearning Cyclops

And it worked very well with my Macromedia Flash when I was getting started in e-learning. Being able to add quizzes and publish SCORM/AICC compliant courses is a big plus too. Being able to add quizzes and publish SCORM/AICC compliant courses is a big plus too. old habits are hard to break.

DHTML 100
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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

A product called Macromedia Flash (being used with web sites) became a go to for course development. Macromedia Dreamweaver came out with templates. Output was AICC (boo) and SCORM. The idea of a rapid content authoring tool, whereas anyone could build a course quickly was appalling to everyone who built courses.

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LETSI/SCORM 2.0 Wrap Up and Thanks!

Mark Oehlert

So I spent most of last week at the LETSI / SCORM 2.0 I don't want to go over all the stuff in my notes but I did want to be sure and point out that the workshop developed and is currently refining about 30 use cases for SCORM 2.0. This is in addition to the 100+ white papers that have been written and submitted to LETSI on SCORM 2.0

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How to Speak Like an eLearning Pro

OpenSesame

All we have to do is to convert all the media to.flv so it can be embedded in the SWF, then publish the SCORM package to the LMS.”. Flash : Flash is a technology platform originally developed by Macromedia and later acquired and developed by Adobe systems. The company was later acquired by Macromedia. Here are the essentials.