Washington, D.C.-based multimedia firm Triad Interactive, Inc. announced today the development of a new multimedia authoring platform that promises to combine online and CD-ROM learning environments. The Triad Interactive Learning Architecture (TILA)™ creates a custom browser shell based on Internet Explorer 5.0 and a library of Java and JavaScript components. This combination allows delivery of Web-ready products on CD-ROM using internet technologies and incorporating re-usable components. The result is a fast and economical method of developing complex instructional products with sophisticated multimedia interactivities—products that can be utilized independent of the Web, via CD-ROM or local area network, or from any Web-based server.

TILA features include customized bookmarks and notes, a sophisticated search engine, JavaScript quizzing with scoring and tracking, drag-and-drop exercises, rollovers, and user-click interactivities. There are even instructional games like crossword puzzles, hangman, and a Jeopardy-like game complete with scoring and a special "final" question.

With TILA, Triad has developed an browser-based engine that makes the delivery of enriched instructional materials available to both online and offline students. Instructors and students alike benefit from an array of audio, animations, and creative interactive exercises and tests. For those to whom "faster, better, cheaper" are magic words, the Triad Interactive Learning Architecture offers the most reliable method by which to achieve the magical transformation from page to computer to Internet.

Triad is developing custom TILA-based education and training titles for clients including the McGraw-Hill Companies and the Graduate Management Admission Council.

Triad Interactive, Inc. is a leading designer and developer of interactive products. It has an outstanding reputation as an innovative force in the multimedia industry.