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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

Upside Learning

With increasing bandwidths and better compression techniques available, use of videos in Flash platform based eLearning courses is on the rise. Don’t double compress videos – use uncompressed or lossless formats when compressing to FLV format. Encoding videos to FLV. However, often we find videos not being used optimally.

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Developing An eLearning Player?

Upside Learning

An eLearning player is a building block for more conventional [one with back and next for navigation buttons] eLearning courses. What’s an eLearning player? This post is based on our experience with development of Flash based eLearning players over the years.

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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

The most important one is Adobe removing restrictions on SWF and FLV/F4V specifications. Vector-based graphics creation and playback is crucial for eLearning and mLearning courses. Related posts: Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1– What’s Adobe’s contribution? So one can now develop software that can actually “play” SWF content.

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9 Free Tools That Help Me Build Better E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

They want to know about free tools that they can use to build their elearning courses. Once I have a color scheme, I can use that throughout my course. When I’m done I just import it into my rapid elearning course. I do most of my basic editing with it because it’s on my PC and does most of what I need for my online courses.

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How to Use Lectora to Create Accessible Courses

Trivantis

Creating accessible courses in Lectora® isn’t hard to do. In this post, we’ll cover some of the more common items you’ll want to keep on your accessibility checklist as your build your course. In this post, we’ll cover some of the more common items you’ll want to keep on your accessibility checklist as your build your course.

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Video Format Comparison - Flash Video Format - WMV Format - Quicktime - Real

Tony Karrer

I was recently asked what video format to use and particularly about the differences between the Flash Video Format (FLV) and Windows Media - WMV Format. They aren't by a long shot, but when it comes to putting video on the web, the Flash Player has rapidly become the only game in town. Of course, the same is true of the other formats.

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Camtasia Training in Philadelphia

TechSmith Camtasia

Participants in the course will learn how to setup your screen recording for best results, edit your video and apply special effects, and produce to a shareable file format. Participants in the course will dive deeper into best practices for using Camtasia Studio. MP4, SWF, FLV, WMV - which one? Custom Callouts. Cursor Effects.

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