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Things to Consider Before Investing in eLearning Development Tools

Hurix Digital

Flash (SWF files) created a revolution when it was first introduced in the use of graphics and interactive elements; however, it suffered a setback thanks to current trends in eLearning systems and gradually lost relevance. Now it may be that you already have some online courses in Flash. and operating systems such as Windows and MAC.

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Flash is Dead: Long Live HTML5 for eLearning

LearnUpon

Adobe Flash technology has helped support the delivery of online multimedia content for nearly two decades. Three popular eLearning formats are also largely dependent on Flash technology for their delivery medium: SCORM, Tin Can (xAPI), and video. Flash will be allowed to die in 2020 as Adobe ceases to support the standard.

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So…How Do You Build eLearning For iPads?

Upside Learning

Now that we have thought about what we can do with our existing courseware let’s think about building some new eLearning and what’s all the fuss about HTML5. There are many more tools and they all do what you want them to do, but as Judy Unrein puts it in her blog post “ Publishes to HTML5? So what’s the fuss about HTML5?

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Why is HTML5 migration considered to be a wiser perspective?

Dynamic Pixel

Hence, the scenario has made the switching over from flash plug-ins and SWF to html5 has been indispensable. The flash courses proved unsuitable for the Chrome browsers that were rarely used. SWF refers to a small web format that is generally not compatible with the rarely-used browsers. What is HTML5?

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Designing eLearning for iPads – Webinar Recording and Q&A

Upside Learning

Just in case you are delivering web-based learning, poor network connectivity can pose some problem. But we differentiate primarily because of the OS and Flash compatibility. Most things that work on the Web also work on tablets. A: Heavy graphics don’t pose too much of a problem in HTML5. If so, what does it take?

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How Apple Killed Flash for eLearning (and What to do with All That Non-Compatible Courseware)

eLearningMind

In 2010, Steve Jobs singlehandedly started one of the biggest–OK, maybe the only–software feuds by stating that Apple products wouldn’t support Flash, citing reasons like a high fail rate, lag time, and the overall unnecessary nature of the platform. percent of websites used Flash for multimedia applications. Today, only 10.7

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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #11

Upside Learning

A Web-based drawing tool, which outputs the drawing as PNG file. Interesting that it’s fully developed in HTML5 and features tools like patterns, gradient, spirographs – generally found in big editors like Photoshop etc. It seems a promising step towards a Flash-less web. Sketchpad. IBM Academic Initiative.