Authorware

Well we just learned how to programme that in "Authorware" how EXCITING!

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(The course uses Authorware, which Adobe no longer supports and never ported to the Intel Macs.)

If You Think NOMAD Is Bad .... - NASA Watch 2009

Financial stability implies that the vendor is going to be around long enough so you can continue to maintain your data long into the future not that it always works out that way, with Adobe discontinuing development on Authorware!

Archive 2008-01-01 Clive Shepherd 2008

So, returning to the theme of my last few posts on online authoring tools, One prediction already on target followed by Online authoring tools not so novel, here is the quandary: with the desktop tools that Adobe and others like Articulate provide, your content is pretty safe because it resides on your local computer and you can continue to use the tool even if, like Authorware, it is discontinued by the vendor.

Any tool as long as it's Adobe Clive Shepherd 2008

Financial stability implies that the vendor is going to be around long enough so you can continue to maintain your data long into the future not that it always works out that way, with Adobe discontinuing development on Authorware!

Any tool as long as it's Adobe Clive Shepherd 2008

So, returning to the theme of my last few posts on online authoring tools, One prediction already on target followed by Online authoring tools not so novel, here is the quandary: with the desktop tools that Adobe and others like Articulate provide, your content is pretty safe because it resides on your local computer and you can continue to use the tool even if, like Authorware, it is discontinued by the vendor.

Archive 2008-01-01 Clive Shepherd 2008

Michael Allen creator of Authorware and of ADDIE - the instructional design process: he told us that he's no longer so convinced about ADDIE - he's into rapid prototyping.

Straight talk - am I the only one enjoying myself? Clive Shepherd 2007

The next generation of authoring tools included a handful of really serious players, notably Authorware (now with Adobe) and Toolbook (now with SumTotal), both still going although not so strongly.

Archive 2007-07-01 Clive Shepherd 2007

The creator of Authorware and long-time instructional design guru created something of a stir (at least with me) when he announced his dissatisfaction with the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation) model for e-learning development and put his not inconsiderable weight behind a new process of 'successive approximation'.

Archive 2007-05-01 Clive Shepherd 2007

Desktop tools (Flash, Authorware, Lectora, etc.) will invariably have more sophisticated features and are quicker to use (because they don't have to keep sending messages back and forwards to a server).

The big question: choosing tools Clive Shepherd 2007