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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

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Audio/Video Support – HTML5 has added new video and audio tags that can play video/audio in a browser without a plugin but it doesn’t officially support any video or audio format. Also, Flash or Silverlight video/audio supports secure media streaming; there is no clear counterpart for this in HTML5.

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Scenario-Based Learning Design – Core Structure and Implementation

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Media We’ve seen scenarios executed as text adventures, graphic novel formats, audio stories, branching video, and full games. Audio alone is unusual for a scenario, but the possibilities are there. For situations where audio is the key (for example, air traffic control), having audio as at least an element is important.

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Audio in eLearning: Do American and British customers differ?

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I came across this interesting post by Cammy Bean about cultural differences in the use of audio in eLearning. Her colleague, Mark Harrison, believes that audio is used a lot less in eLearning in the UK than in the US and she is exploring the reasons for this. That caused me to wonder about our own experience.

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Custom eLearning Development Costs – Results From Chapman Alliance Study

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Content pages, text, graphics, perhaps simple audio, perhaps simple video, test questions. Level 1 plus 25% (or more) interactive exercises (allowing learners to perform virtual “try it&# exercises), liberal use of multimedia (audio, video, animations). NOTE: PowerPoint-to-eLearning often falls into this category.

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Updates On HTML5 From Google I/O

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In one of my earlier post I have mentioned that HTML5 specifications lack in defining the audio/video format so different browsers support different video [Ogg Theora and H.264] This extension has multi-screen support, live support for audio/video, HTML5 and CSS3 code hinting, webkit browser support for live preview etc.

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HTML 5 and eLearning Development

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It makes HTML more powerful by adding new elements like video and audio. Video & Audio – You can play video or audio in HTML 5 WITHOUT any plug-in required (like Flash or Silverlight], simply by using the new audio and video markup tags. So what’s the big deal ? However HTML 5 has the potential to change all that.

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Audio in eLearning: Do American and British customers differ?

Upside Learning

I came across this interesting post by Cammy Bean about cultural differences in the use of audio in eLearning. Her colleague, Mark Harrison, believes that audio is used a lot less in eLearning in the UK than in the US and she is exploring the reasons for this. That caused me to wonder about our own experience. No related posts.

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