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Apple iPad Disappoints eLearning Industry

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I have great respect for Apple as an organization particularly because I use an iPhone and I think the iPhone has definitely become one of those game-changers in the smartphone world and by a large margin. And most importantly – Flash support (rather the absolute lack of it). I hope Apple is not being blinded by the iPhone’s success.

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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

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Last week, while justifying Apple’s refusal to allow Flash player on iPhone/iPad, Steve Jobs wrote– “ New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too) ”. A few days before the launch of iPad Apple had released a list of ‘iPad ready’ websites having support for HTML5.

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Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1– How it Can Benefit Mobile Learning

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Adobe also unveiled Flash platform 10.1 beta to developers and content providers at the same event. Flash is the favorite delivery platform (development tool) for eLearning courses due to its huge install-base and ability to produce engaging content. To begin with it will be available on Android in 2010.

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HTML 5 and eLearning Development

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A couple of weeks back we posted about Silverlight posing some (at this time, actually little) competition to Flash. Those of you have heard of HTML 5 will know it’s a new version of HTML and XHTML being promoted by Google and Apple in a bid to move the web away from proprietary technologies like Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX.

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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

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With increasing bandwidths and better compression techniques available, use of videos in Flash platform based eLearning courses is on the rise. Before using videos in your Flash project, you would need to encode them in a format compatible with Adobe Flash (FLV or MPEG-4). However, often we find videos not being used optimally.

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Apple Vs Adobe: Impact On Mobile Learning Development

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The war between Adobe and Apple just got hotter. Apple has revised the Developer Program License Agreement to ban the use of cross compiler tools like Unity3d, Appcelerator’s Titanium, Adobe’s Flash CS5 etc. for developing iPhone and iPad applications. With the announcement of iPhone OS 4.0 or AIR 2.0.

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HTML 5 and eLearning Development

Upside Learning

A couple of weeks back we posted about Silverlight posing some (at this time, actually little) competition to Flash. Those of you have heard of HTML 5 will know it’s a new version of HTML and XHTML being promoted by Google and Apple in a bid to move the web away from proprietary technologies like Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX.

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