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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. The iPad was supposed to be better and bigger than the iPhone, closer to a computer and much more than just a phone.

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

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Note that all the major smartphones (except iPhone) will support Flash, including Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, Palm’s webOS, and Windows Mobile. Nonetheless, Adobe has already announced a workaround using the packager for iPhone. Their goal is to have every platform supporting native Flash and AIR (including iPhone).

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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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This Flash Player (Frash) Runs On iPad

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About a month back I blogged about Smokescreen which allows advertisers to run simple Flash movies on iPad/iPhone using HTML5/JavaScript. Today while checking my twitter feed I discovered Frash which runs Flash content on iPad/iPhone in a Safari browser. The keyboard input and video playback are yet to be supported.

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So…How Do You Build eLearning For iPads?

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A good starting point is our blog post – 5 Rapid Authoring Tools to Publish Courses For Your iPads – where we talk about some of the authoring tools that can be used to develop HTML5 courses for iPads. Apps for iPads – Native or Web-based? Is it ready to the extent we believe it to be?

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Upside Blog iPhone App Is Here– Download Today.

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We’re very excited to announce the availability of Upside Blog iPhone App. This App is designed to make it easy and more convenient for iPhone users to read and interact with posts on this blog. Developed by Upside Learning’s Innovation team, this App is compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Upside Blog App.

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Seven Ways to Use the iPad for Workplace Learning

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The iPad is here. Here at Upside our camp is divided, there are iPad lovers and there are iPad baiters. So given that I’m not a lover or baiter of Apple, I’m trying to take an objective view of what the iPad might be able to do for workplace learning. Workplaces can create their own HD video libraries.

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