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The AICC will be working jointly with Adobe to consolidate concerns, priorities, solutions and information relating to sustaining and migrating Authorware content. The committee will establish community teleconferences and web-based workspaces for the developer, consumer and vendor communities to collaborate.

An initial teleconference will be held in February 2008, and a notice will be placed here on the AICC News Blog and on other elearning community sites.

Please indicate your interesting in participating by contacting the AICC Committee on Authorware Concerns via the email link provided. Initial committee meetings will be open to both AICC members and non-members.

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The final data from the AICC Adobe Authorware End-of-Development Issues and Impacts survey is now available online. Thank you to the 68 representatives from various organizations and industries who completed the entire survey. Names, email addresses and organizations are not included in the published data. Reasonable attempts were also made to remove identifying information from free-form comments.

The final survey data is published as a Acrobat PDF, available from:

http://www.aicc.org/docs/misc/AICC-Report-Final-Aw_Impacts.pdf

A review an discussion of the survey results is expected to be held at the AICC Meetings in January 2008 in San Jose, California, USA. See the AICC Meeting Information page for additional meeting agenda information as it becomes available.

For the benefit of the community, we encourage use of the AICC Forum, Authorware Survey Discussions to both centralize and archive the discussions for maximum sustained impact.

Note: The Adobe Authorware End-of-Development survey is official closed and the survey URL is no longer active.

Regards,

Tom King
AICC Communications Chairman

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The preliminary data from the AICC Adobe Authorware End-of-Development Issues and Impacts survey is now available online. Thank you to all those who have already responded. Names, email addresses and organizations are not included in the published data. This preliminary data is published as a Acrobat PDF, available from:

http://www.aicc.org/docs/working/AICC-Report-Redacted.pdf

Representatives from over 45 organization have responded, and approximately 25% of those organizations are involved in commercial aviation. Other organizations represented include: financial services, healthcare, higher education, manufacturing, military and defense, professional education, professional services and others.

The survey will remain open until November 16, 2007. Please consider completing the survey if you have not done so already. The survey is available at:

http://www.questionmark.com/go/aiccsurvey

Regards,

Tom King
AICC Communications Chairman

Labels: AICC Forum, Authorware, cbt, Survey

The AICC survey on Authorware End-of-Development Impact and Issues is now available online. This survey is a direct follow-up to information gathering at meetings and from online discussions in the AICC Forums for Authorware End-of-Development. The survey consolidates feedback from the Forum's topic on Impacts and Issues Survey into the 23 question survey. The initial expectation is to keep the survey open for 10-14 days for data collection, but the AICC reserves the right to shorten or extend that period.

The survey URL is indicated below. Be aware that it may take a moment or two to re-direct to the actual survey form URL.

http://www.questionmark.com/go/aiccsurvey

If you are interested in the issues surrounding Authorware End-of-Development and its impact on training, please be considerate and make every effort to answer completely, accurately and honestly for the sake of the community.

Regards,

Tom King
AICC Communications Subcommittee Chairman

Labels: AICC Forum, Authorware, cbt, Survey

The AICC will select final questions for the Authorware impact survey on Tuesday October 9, 2007. Please visit the AICC Forum on Authorware End-of-Development to review the material and provide your input to help the community. Feedback can also be submitted by sending email to Authorware@aicc.org. Additional feedback must be received by close-of-business on Tuesday, October 9, 2007.

An online survey form will be posted 5-10 days after the final questions are selected. The survey location will be posted here on the AICC News Blog and on the AICC Forum. If there are additional locations where this information should be posted, please notify Authorware@aicc.org.

Labels: Authorware, cbt, Survey

The AICC has established an open, registration-required, discussion forum for issues relating to the end-of-development for Adobe Authorware. This action has created significant uncertainty and is expected to have significant financial and technical ramifications across many industries. The AICC Authorware End-of-Development Discussion Forum is a place to contribute your feedback, comments and observations for an open letter to Adobe from the training community.

The live discussion at the AICC Meeting has already resulted in a variety of RFP requirements, risk management strategies, conversion strategies, tools & services proposals, and criteria for selection of future and alternative suppliers and technologies. Concerns included avoiding trading one opaque/proprietary format for another, IE7 compatibility, Vista compatibility, and the sheer scope and resource requirements of completely redeveloping content from scratch.

It was generally agreed that partial, but not complete, conversion from Authorware to other formats may be acceptable. Further discussion revealed that individual organizations may have specific categories of content and conversion could likely be "hand-tuned" to increase the fidelity/success with that content. Extra or custom effort to achieve such conversions is considered acceptable.

Some interesting alternatives include migrations from Adobe Authorware to Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS), HTML/DHTML, and/or Microsoft Silverlight rather than Adobe AIR, Director MX 2004, Flash, or Flex.

Participants also called for a prompt response from Adobe regarding their plans for a roadmap, response or guidance-- many organization are currently making development plans, technology selections, and preparing RFPs for this calendar year. Discussion notes are included in the AICC Meeting minutes, which will be posted after this week's meeting conclude on September 27, 2007.

Please visit the AICC Authorware End-of-Development Discussion Forum to learn additional information or share your feedback and ideas.

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Authorware has been very successful and widely adopted by the aviation community. In August of 2007 Adobe announced the End-of-Development for Authorware, and that there are no plans to provide compatibility updates or support for issues relating to using Authorware or Authorware content with Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7).

On Tuesday, September 25, 2007, the AICC is hosting a moderated discussion on options for sustaining, converting or migrating Authorware-based content. The shared goal is to ensure the aviation community can continue to delivery timely and effective training from this large content-base. Please join us at the AICC St. Louis meeting in September or submit an email to the discussion moderators if you are interested in sharing or discussing best-practices, processes, technology and concepts around conversion, migration or alternatives.

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