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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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How to Pick the Best Authoring Tool to Convert Legacy E-Learning Courses

CommLab India

A legacy e-learning course refers to an online course developed using Flash, Dreamweaver, XML/HTML, JavaScript or earlier versions of rapid authoring tools. Converting a legacy course to the latest HTML5 can be a tricky process. Most authoring tools in the market support responsive or HTML5 features. Multilingual Support.

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A Conversation with Yury Uskov of iSpring

Kapp Notes

It was ActiveSWF, a software development kit to programmatically create Flash files. In just a year, we launched FlashSpring, a PowerPoint add-in which converted PowerPoint presentations to Flash. We kept upgrading the product, and by 2007 it had become the world’s best PowerPoint-to-Flash converter.

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E-Learning 101: Straightforward Answers to Fundamental Questions—Part 2

ATD Learning Technologies

At the 2016 ATD TechKnowledge Conference, I hosted a session designed for people just getting started with e-learning. I periodically put out an authoring tools comparison that shares my personal opinion on the differences between several of the most common tools: 2016 authoring tools comparison. All are still in use today.

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E-Learning 101: Straightforward Answers to Fundamental Questions

ATD Learning Technologies

At the 2016 ATD TechKnowledge Conference, I hosted a session designed for people just getting started with e-learning. Historically, the primary protocol was SCORM, and it governed how e-learning courses “talked” to learning management systems. What is HTML5 and why is it significant for e-learning?

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On Fire in 2013 – What’s going to be hot in e-learning

eLearning 24-7

Listen you love flash. You can’t live without it – but unless you want to be able to only see your courses on tablets that only support flash (and they all also support HTML5) or have zero desire to see your courses on the iPads (which support only HTML5), you will need to face reality. with TinCan).

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2016 eLearning Hype Curve Predictions

Web Courseworks

Our 2016 eLearning predictions set in terms of Gartner’s hype cycle. Eventually, these devices will send detailed reporting to learning management systems, in roughly the same way that an online quiz or a SCORM module can report to an LMS. The post 2016 eLearning Hype Curve Predictions appeared first on Web Courseworks.