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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 site is like having an instructional design library at your finger tips. 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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MICHAEL ALLEN – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

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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Michael Allen – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

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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Storyline and ZebraZapps: seriously powerful, seriously simple

Clive on Learning

The tool includes a library of cartoon characters which you can manipulate using different expressions and gestures for use in scenarios. 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.

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E-learning Tools: A Developer’s Review of Adobe Captivate 7

SweetRush

In this article we dig deeper into the capabilities of Adobe Captivate 7 as we help you evaluate e-learning tools for your own use by answering some questions about e-learning authorware. Developers can also take advantage of an extensive library of pre-made interactions and templates. How easy is it to start working with Captivate 7?

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Training Standards

Tony Karrer

However, it all settled down to roughly Toolbook, Authorware and IconAuthor. Programmers are very much used to accessing code examples, reference libraries, seeking and getting help, etc. When CBT (CD-ROM based multimedia training) came out, there were a lot of different authoring tools and approaches that came along with it.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

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). Plus, questions you will need to ask any vendor who provides skills/job role libraries – regarding their sources. Bottom Line. There you have it.