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Michael Allen: Hitchhiker’s Guide To The eLearning Galaxy

eLearning Industry

Someone who grew up on Authorware and pretty much tore apart the first edition of Michael Allen's Guide to eLearning, the 2.0 version flashbacks of the author’s life bring back lots of memories… And by lots, of course, I mean 42. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

Compared to building courses in Flash or Authorware, the rapid elearning tools are easy to use. His book, Guide to E-Learning , comes with a demo CD that has some really good examples in it. There are a lot of other good books I could recommend, but this is a good start and covers a lot of the basics. Play Around with the Software.

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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. Just a few guiding principles define the imperatives, but it’s important not to underestimate their importance and cheat. KK: So, how does SAM work? MA: It’s not very complicated.

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e-Learning Authoring Tools Crash Course -- Follow Up

Learning Visions

Note: you can generally tell if info was provided by a real user or by an authoring tool company ;) Bryan Chapman, Brandon Hall Research Report, Authoring Tool KnowledgeBase 2009 (A Buyer's Guide to 120+ of the Best E-learning Content Development Applications).

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People that inspire me: my 5 eLearning heroes

Challenge to Learn

His book ‘Michael Allen’s guide to e-Learning’ will cover all the basics on eLearning for you but I can recommend reading all his other books on instructional design as well. 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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Do You Storyboard Your E-Learning Courses?

Rapid eLearning

A lot of this changed when we shifted from custom development in Flash and Authorware to Articulate Studio and PowerPoint. Download the fully revised, free 63-page ebook: The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro. Rapid E-Learning Changed Things. Which makes sense, because the tools are so much easier to use.

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User Friendly or Hype?

eLearning 24-7

For those of us who can remember, back in early 2000, products like Authorware were essential to building courses. Authorware was a great product, but its learning curve was extremely difficult and user friendliness was debatable. Without looking at the user guide, manual or tutorial, jump right in. A Simple Test.