As my company is looking into eLearning options I was disappointed to find that Adobe has discontinued the Adobe eLearning Suite.
Then to add insult to injury, I find that there is no eLearning CC utilizing the current versions of Adobe's eLearning Programs available either.
It's unbelievable that with the gigantic boom in eLearning that Adobe chose to discontinue this Suite and to not support a CC option.
Adobe needs to either:
- Provide access to the recent versions of Captivate, Presenter, and other relevant eLearning software in it's regular Creative Cloud; or
- Provide an up-to-date eLearning Suite (CC or Perpetual) with access to the recent versions of Captivate, Presenter, Adobe Media Encoder, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Audition and other relevant eLearning software; or
- Create an Custom Creative Cloud membership, that would allow the User to choose the programs relevant to their job.
Custom Creative Cloud Pricing could be for a 10 or 15 or 20 Program bundle and give the User the freedom to customize their Custom Creative Cloud experience.
In my career I have absolutely no need of some of the current CC programs... so having to purchase CC for the handful of programs I need and then spring another $70 a month to get Presenter CC and Captivate CC is just ridiculous. I can't even begin to try to justify that cost, when over half the programs of the regular CC aren't even related to my job.
I get the whole CC concept - but real world application dictates that Adobe needs to be more flexible in how they offer these CC programs.
As it stands, I'm already looking into alternative eLearning Authoring software since Adobe chooses to ignore the needs of the eLearning sector by shutting us out of a viable eLearning Suite, CC or otherwise, that is suited to our needs.
