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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

For an excellent illustration of this problem, check out this great example provided by the always-interesting Cathy Moore (click the image to launch the Flash player): Courtesy of [link] So, why does narration in eLearning frequently do nothing more than parrot back what’s written on the screen?

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Flash: an End of an Era – What You Need To Know

Aptara

In 1996 Macromedia first introduced the Flash Player, developed to play videos, animations, and audio and to support enhanced interactivity in web browsers. Over the years web browsers matured and so did Flash Player, which became the most widely used plug-in to play multimedia elements on a web page. Conclusion.

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Learning Content in Crisis? The How and Why of Moving from Flash to HTML5

gomo learning

For readers of a certain age, Adobe Flash was the exciting new face of a media-filled internet. Many homework and office hours were sacrificed to crude but addictive Flash games and endlessly looping novelty songs. It’s now less than a year before Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla pull the plug on Flash entirely.

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35 Top eLearning Articles and 6 Hot Topics for March

eLearning Learning Posts

The Great ADDIE Debate - Learnlets , March 27, 2010 At the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions conference this week, Jean Marripodi convinced Steve Acheson and myself to host a debate on the viability of ADDIE in her ID Zone. The links are swf (Flash) files. The state of corporate learning and development , March 25, 2010.