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Apple iPad Disappoints eLearning Industry

Upside Learning

I was looking forward to the Apple iPad even more so as we have been doing good stuff on mobile learning and putting up applications and tools on iPhone as pilots and on a trial basis. The iPad was supposed to be better and bigger than the iPhone, closer to a computer and much more than just a phone. What would I carry an iPad for?

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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

Upside Learning

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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So…How Do You Build eLearning For iPads?

Upside Learning

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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This Flash Player (Frash) Runs On iPad

Upside Learning

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 video below shows Flash content running on iPad Safari browser using Frash –.

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

Upside Learning

I assume the same packager would be made capable to publish apps for iPad too as the iPad uses the same underlying technology as iPhone. So a solution developed for other devices, can possibly be ported for the iPhone using this packager. General Considerations for Mobile Learning (mLearning).

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Seven Ways to Use the iPad for Workplace Learning

Upside Learning

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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Course Dimensions for iPads

eLearning Brothers

Are you trying to build a course that works on both desktops and an iPad? He describes that 995×627 is the best Captivate project size for iPads and desktops. Set the size of your content pages for the iPad at: 1024W x 690H. Courses published in Articulate Presenter don’t work on iPads. copied from Lectora ).

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