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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. The troubled history of Flash. So why the fall?

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How to Publish to xAPI (Tin Can) with Articulate Storyline 3

LearnUpon

In this guide, we show you how to publish your Articulate Storyline courses in the xAPI format. xAPI, also known as Tin Can, was intended to be SCORM’s successor. That hasn’t happened just yet, but, there are lots of reasons to use xAPI over SCORM , most notably that it’s a more reliable format.

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Online multimedia content in e-learning: Flash vs. HTML5

Matrix

The last few years had witnessed a strong debate over the two technologies that make possible the embedding of multimedia content files in a web page: Flash and HTML5. Apples, aka Flash. Flash is a mature technology that runs well on all browsers, including older versions of Internet Explorer, which some businesses still use.

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How will Flash’s demise affect your SCORM courses?

LearnUpon

Support for Adobe Flash Player ends in 2020. And as Flash has been integral to eLearning for over 20 years, it’s retirement will have a significant effect. Currently, you can export SCORM packages to Flash, HTML, or both. Flash is the most popular output type, so it’s likely that your courses are SWF Flash-based.

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Why Do We Need a Content Modernization Strategy Now More than Ever Before?

Harbinger Interactive Learning

But sometimes, modernization could be mistaken purely as transformation from Flash to HTML5 and in an oversight; the bigger underlying opportunity could be overlooked. In 1991, a web legend named Sir Tim Berners-Lee created HTML5. One of the key objectives of developing HTML5 was to have a better alternative to Flash.

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Top 5 Content Authoring Tools You Need to Know About

Kitaboo

A content authoring tool refers to software that enables you to create interactive digital training content , easily convert it into different formats, and offer it to learners either through the web or a learning management system. Supports a wide range of formats, including SCORM, AICC, HTML5, xAPI (TinCan), Windows, and Mac OS.

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Articulate Rise – Got questions? We got answers!

B Online Learning

Do Rise courses use Flash? Rise courses do not use flash. They are created solely in HTML5. Where iOS devices weren’t flash compatible, they do love HTML5, so your iPhone and iPad will have no issues with seeing the modules as you intended! Tin Can (xAPI) support. Chrome (iOS 8 or later).