E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 12, 2013

I jumped straight into it without referring to the instructions, and while I’m familiar with authorware, I expect it’s intuitive enough for Average Joe to work it out too. Creating lectures, rearranging them and uploading the content is a dream. If not, it’s carefully scaffolded each step of the way. That’s 47% off!

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Audacity Authorware Lecture LMS 248

Learnnovators

JANUARY 7, 2015

He was the founder and CEO of Authorware, a revolutionary eLearning authoring tool. Authorware merged with MacroMind/Paracomp to become Macromedia, which was later acquired by Adobe. Learnnovators: You are known for your role as the primary architect in creating Authorware ? Authors tend to do what tools make easy.

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Instructional Design Authorware Blended Learning ADDIE 145

Learnnovators

JANUARY 8, 2015

He was the founder and CEO of Authorware, a revolutionary eLearning authoring tool. Authorware merged with MacroMind/Paracomp to become Macromedia, which was later acquired by Adobe. Learnnovators: You are known for your role as the primary architect in creating Authorware ― one of the most successful authoring tools ever created.

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Instructional Design Authorware Blended Learning ADDIE 145

Upside Learning

MAY 7, 2010

Dr. Michael Allen (creator of Authorware) is working on a new tool called Zebra (which he talks about here ) that would make engaging eLearning creation easy with drag and drop objects. We will also see new authoring tools which allow designers to make application scenarios easily and quickly. Emergence of Personal Learning Agents.

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Learning Technologies Authoring Tools Technology Brandon Hall 271

Litmos

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

You could use any of the many authoring tools, such as Authorware, but you needed an appropriate player. Learning Standards. Initially, when you developed eLearning, you were pretty much dependent on the tool you developed it in.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 1, 2008

Compared to building courses in Flash or Authorware, the rapid elearning tools are easy to use. There are a lot of other good books I could recommend, but this is a good start and covers a lot of the basics. Feel free to recommend other good books in the comments section. Play Around with the Software. You really can’t break anything.

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Rapid eLearning Blogging Authoring Tools eLearning Consultant 73

Tony Karrer

MARCH 15, 2007

While tools such as Toolbook and Authorware are down a bit. You can see the detailed view of the sat numbers here. This data shows that the Articulate tools, Adobe Captivate and Dreamweaver and Lectora are near the top for elearning course authoring. What surprised me is that there wasn't more discussion around this. Do people buy this?

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Dreamweaver Lectora eLearning Tools Toolbook 105

eLearning Cyclops

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Back when I first started developing e-learning courses, I used Macromedia's Authorware. For more interactive elements, I used Flash and imported the SWFs into Authorware. Over the years, I have used ToolBook, Trainersoft, and even Dreamweaver with Coursebuilder.

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dVinci Interactive

MARCH 23, 2012

Other technological improvements followed rapidly – Windows 95 was a game-changer, as was the introduction of the PC authoring system Toolbook along with cross-platform tools like Director and Authorware. CD ROMs became easy to author, but they were soon supplanted by the ubiquity of the internet.

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CD-ROM Lesson Instructional Design Toolbook 160

ICS Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Side Note: Many of the newer features are reminiscent of Authorware. Someone on that CP team should get together with a couple Authorware experts and review the overall functionality of that program. OR maybe they already have and they’re just mimicking and rolling out these ‘new features’ as they can work them in!

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Adobe eLearning Solutions So, Ellen is talking about Authorware and IT's future in eLearning: 6 part plan 1)Business continuity 2)conversion 3)migration 4)enablement 5)develop the next gen leanring content authoring 6)improved communication Tom KIng will be acting as the Liaison for Adobe and the Authorware community to help this transition process.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 1, 2012

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.

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Instructional Design ADDIE Authoring Tools Conversation 254

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

And, specifically for learning, Authorware became a powerful tool. Companies emerged to do them at scale, but things were changing rather fast. Flash came about as a web-based lingua franca, where programs could run in most browsers with a plug in. But, of course, this changed.

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Authorware eLearning Guild Emergent Flash 133

ATD Learning Technologies

OCTOBER 3, 2012

With us was Tom King, who helped create Authorware. 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. Click here to read full version.

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Macromedia Authorware ADL SCORM 86

Association eLearning

OCTOBER 9, 2012

In response to the demand for more accessible authoring tools, Authorware was born. Using Authorware , learning professionals could create learning programs with hyper-simplistic designs, primarily through dragging and dropping icons. While powerful for their time, these tools were not easy to use, requiring complex programming skills.

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eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I “grew-up&# in eLearning world using Director/Authorware and then moving into Flash/HTML (PPT was “off-limits&# ). Interface creation, navigation buttons, LMS tracking, and testing abilities are then typically added to the PPT functionality.

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PowerPoint eLearning Tools PPT Tools 114

eLearning Brothers

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Dr. Michael Allen introduced Authorware in the 1980s and helped us leverage the personal computer and graphical user interface. When computer-based training (CBT) first came to light, our computer screens only displayed one color and we relied solely on mainframes to communicate across a company’s enterprise.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Altova XMLSpy CustomDoc Macromedia Authorware fro. Adobe Captivate Macromedia Dreamweaver fr. Articulate Presenter Lectora Macromedia Flash Profess ion. Flashform Rapid eLearning St. Articulate Engage CourseBuilder Ibr Dreamwea. Lectora (OpenOffice-Impress. Des ire2Learn Learning Enviro.

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Rapid eLearning Authoring Tools Vuepoint KnowledgePlanet 100

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The dominating authoring tool by far, was Authorware. Authorware usage and fan base made Storyline supporters and usage look like a rock stage at a state fair. There are even fans today of Authorware, who if it was still around, would bounce right into it. Other course authoring tools started to appear right after Authorware.

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Instructional Design Authoring Tools Instructional Instruction 85

Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The list does include older tools like Authorware, which are no longer being supported and definitely missing a tool or two. But this could be a great place for an organization to start sorting through the mess of tools out there.

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Brandon Hall Authoring Udutu Tools 100

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

While I have seen a few that give off the “rapid build” appearance, unless you have experience with solutions in the past like Authorware, MacroMedia Director, or similar brethren, you will face some serious challenges. Hierarchy/Tree view – Focused on course elements, objects, etc. If you are new, you can build.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Michael was, of course, the creator of Authorware, a highly powerful tool from the CD-ROM era, which Adobe eventually gave up on after they inherited it from Macromedia. Authorware was a serious tool that you could use for serious projects, but with a friendly interface.

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Authoring Tools CD-ROM Authorware Macromedia 73

Tony Karrer

MAY 25, 2006

Authorware , Toolbook ) to the new generation of WBT authoring tools (e.g., Just when you've made the transition from the prior generation of CBT authoring tools (e.g., Captivate , Lectora ), it looks like things are slowly shifting again.

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Courseware Reference Authoring Tools Simulations 109

eLearning Cyclops

APRIL 2, 2010

Here are the results and the level of exposure to technology tools this community provides: Twitter (2482) Social Network (1999) Wiki (1610) LMS (1346) Podcaster (1239) Facebook (1176) Flash (980) PowerPoint (922) YouTube (843) RSS (814) LinkedIn (798) Second Life (687) iPhone (602) Director (584) Moodle (550) PDF (521) Captivate (515) Wikipedia (502) (..)

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Big Question WebPod Studio Social Networks ePodcast Creator 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 20, 2009

But still, this gives a general indication and it's especially interesting when you compare it to 2007 : Corporate Blog (20) Personal Learning (23) eLearning Tools (323) Software Simulation (21) Qarbon (6) Second Life (135) PowerPoint (148) Google Scholar (9) Authorware (16) Ah the good old days of 2007. Seems so long ago. :) How about 2005

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Blended Learning Association Learning Management System Folksonomy eLearning Strategy 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 15, 2008

However, it all settled down to roughly Toolbook, Authorware and IconAuthor. When CBT (CD-ROM based multimedia training) came out, there were a lot of different authoring tools and approaches that came along with it. It was hard to choose a tool because you didn't know quite what you were eventually going to do with it.

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 3, 2016

The first edition of Easygenerator was a CD-ROM tool based on Authorware. A bit of Easygenerator’s history. In fact Easygenerator is (in e-Learning terms) an ancient company. We date back to 1995. In 2005 Easygenerator was acquired by ISM, a large Dutch e-business company.

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Easygenerator Authoring Tools CD-ROM Authorware 50

ATD Learning Technologies

JULY 7, 2016

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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Macromedia Authorware Instructional Design Courseware 72

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 29, 2021

Adobe Captivate – They were not the first authoring tool in the industry; Authorware was the first commercial success, heavily used with CBT, and then even into WBT (web-based). Lectora will note the same, but I never found it to be an RCAT.

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Learning System System Metrics Learn.com 111

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

And the first experiences as you tried to move your Authorware, IconAuthor or Toolbook course to run using their new web delivery solution? Do you remember the horrific feeling when you learned what it was going to take to author something to run over the web? That you couldn’t really do audio or video or much of anything else over the web?

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Predictions Diversity Training SharePoint Authoring Tools 200

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 20, 2013

If you are an Authorware fanatic missing the old days, you are still going to miss it – because while these capabilities are being added to tools they are still not at the level of Authorware. The numbers clearly indicate that is on the fast track for real growth in the coming year. . Audio Editing.

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Authoring Market Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion 75

Clive on Learning

JANUARY 24, 2008

Just look at these results, showing the market share of tools in various categories: Rapid development tools: #1 Captivate (65% of Guild members); #4 Presenter (26%) Courseware authoring, i.e. more serious tools: #1 Captivate (60%); #2 Flash (47%); #3 Dreamweaver (43%); #5 Authorware (16%). Audio recording (!!!!): #1 Captivate (44%).

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TechSmith Camtasia

JULY 31, 2013

He was an avid Authorware (Macromedia) developer and has continued on over the years to create many different sources of educational materials including Interactive PDF’s, iBooks, and eBooks. Dave Buell is an IT professional with more than 15 years of experience and has a master’s degree in Information Technology.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 5, 2010

In case you didn’t know, Michael was chief architect of Authorware, the precursor to Macromedia and granddaddy of digital authoring systems.). A t DevLearn 09 , Michael Allen gave us a peek at a new authoring system under development at Allen Interactions. (In I’m impressed.

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Authoring Macromedia Authorware System 41

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Sure, you can use the extensive list of tools on the market, but for those who want real power and complexity ala from the days of Authorware, pickings are slim. The biggest problem facing the industry in the past few years are the lack of course authoring tools for e-learning developers and instructional designers. It’s free.

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eLearning Tools Authoring Flash to HTML5 Conversion Compliance Training 89

LearningGuild

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Over the last 15 years, eLearning has evolved, from Authorware to PowerPoint to the proprietary tools and interactive, experiential, and social formats that we have today. The good news is that, while tools have come and gone and possibilities have expanded beyond imagining, some things haven’t changed.

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Authorware Lesson Instructional Design Instructional 40

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 21, 2015

He fights against boring and bad eLearning and does that in a very constructive way. He wrote a ton of books, all of them are classics and must reads.

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