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Web vs Apps: The Battle Rages On

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The Web was the undisputed king, and with the advent of AJAX and modern CSS, future software was going to be written for the browser. In the beginning it wasn’t much of a threat to the web. On the contrary; it lacked support for a native apps API, and developers were advised to create web apps for it.

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Free and Open Source Web Conferencing (Online Meetings, Webinars.

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As a result, the following post is Free and Open Source Web Conferencing (Online Meetings, Webinars) Tools for e-Learning. The following list contains free and open source Web Conferencing tools that are nt in particular order. OpenMeetings is a free browser-based software that allows you to set up instantly a conference in the Web.

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iPad for eLearning

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iPad was not created for supporting eLearning and (or) mLearning instead it was created as a media device that supports books, magazines, newspapers, games, music, video and web access. So the question is, why all the professionals involved in the e-Learning industry care about the use of iPad for eLearning? The answer is simple.

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E-learning Deployment – Considerations and Tools

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files may be stored out of server in flexible storage services like Amazon S3 and there would be multiple web and db servers deployed, alongside CDNs and load balancers). A self-hosted LMS platform is basically a web application, usually sold as a licensed product, that you get to install and maintain in your own server.

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6 tips for creating great e-learning content

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Think like a web designer. Again, you might or might not be the one responsible for doing the web programming for your e-learning material. Write your course so that it can take advantage of new technologies that modern web browsers offer (like rich interactivity, vector and bitmap graphics, programmatic sound and video, etc).

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A Sneak Peek at eFrontPro: Offline courses

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Web-based applications are a wonderful thing: They give you the ability to access your information anywhere, anytime, using any internet-enabled device. Put simply, an offline-enabled web page, provides a description file, the Manifest, that informs the browser of the files that are needed for the current page to function.

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Typography for e-learning content design

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In an era when OSes come with 100s of fonts and modern web browsers offer us the ability to serve our users any font we like among tens of thousands, it’s tempting to pick up exotic looking fonts, or render your content in fancy web-fonts. Most freely available web-fonts are of low typographic quality (if not downright tacky).

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