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NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Oh, excuse me – social networking to most of the vendors who spin it under the guise of social learning. I won’t constantly bore you on their Facebook, Twitter like components, nor discussion board or text chat, but seriously.who thinks this is engaging and interactive? Oh, yeah, social learning.

vendor 72

vendor Social Networks LMS Innovation 72

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JANUARY 18, 2012

Some vendors push heavily on PPT, implying that a great WBT is really a PPT converted to Flash. Flash output – still red hot. In the latest podcast featuring Volkner Zimmerman who is on the executive board at IMC-AG, he explicitly states that HTML5 is necessary in any course output for mobile. Output to Facebook.

Authoring Tools 76

Authoring Tools Authoring Market Tools 76

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JULY 13, 2010

Another small trend is providing advanced admin capabilities in the form of admins who have CSS, Flash,PHP or other languages. There are enough vendors who are not going into the widget space, but are enabling the integration possibilities of APIs, which are really offers a powerhouse potential (a future emerging technology topic).

LCMS 77

LCMS Trends LMS Social Networks 77

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Samsung Galaxy S is expected to be the first real challenger to the iPad, it runs on Android OS, offers Flash 10.1 Again, the iPad runs with HTML5, not Flash nor Java. True, the other tablets and Samsung offer Flash 10.1 and Java, but they offer HTML5 too. Same issue occurred with Opera – used Flash and Java.

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 40

Flash to HTML5 Conversion Association LMS Association Learning Management System Market 40

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NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Oh, excuse me – social networking to most of the vendors who spin it under the guise of social learning. I won’t constantly bore you on their Facebook, Twitter like components, nor discussion board or text chat, but seriously.who thinks this is engaging and interactive? Oh, yeah, social learning.

vendor 40

vendor Social Networks LMS Innovation 40

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

Another Apple patent includes allowing users via touch free gesturing to move content from one device to another (example from your iPad to your television). Smaller size vendors are now entering the foray. People who use Facebook and Twitter prefer those over your own FB like page and micro blog. M-Commerce.

Blended Learning 95

Blended Learning Authoring Tools Augmented Reality vendor 95

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Vendors were saying, lets “wait on those&# or “our customers are not requesting them, so we are holding off&#. Social learning? If they were doing it, Facebook like page, a crummy blog that looks nothing like a real blog, a Twitter like feed, maybe RSS, text chat and YouTube functions and upload/download angle.

vendor 69

vendor Flash to HTML5 Conversion Mashups iPad 69