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Rapid eLearning Through Software Simulations And Screencasts

Upside Learning

Unlike screen capturing tools, the published output is not just a passive video, but is in a fully interactive format such as Flash SWF. In the past I was involved in development of some courses where we didn’t have chance but to use Adobe Flash to develop the guided application simulations.

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How to Reduce Flash-to-HTML5 Conversion Costs

42 Design Square

How much do you have to spend to convert your flash-based courses converted to HTML5? 1) REUSING THE INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN: If you don’t see any improvement or new requirement other than HTML5, your instructional design costs will almost be NIL. Flash to HTML5 Elearning: Costs vs. Benefits.

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Why is HTML5 migration considered to be a wiser perspective?

Dynamic Pixel

Hence, the scenario has made the switching over from flash plug-ins and SWF to html5 has been indispensable. The flash courses proved unsuitable for the Chrome browsers that were rarely used. SWF refers to a small web format that is generally not compatible with the rarely-used browsers. What is HTML5?

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How to steer your client away from an information dump

Making Change

To produce the slides and SWF, I used Keynote 08 ( not Keynote 09! ). The images of Allison used in the Flash come from one of several sets of fun stock photos designed for use in scenarios, available from ElearningArt. Tags: Instructional design Scenarios and stories. Keynote is a slide editor for the Mac.

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Estimating Time for Rebuilding an Existing Course Library with Captivate

Adobe Captivate

This process may assist you in the next year or two as we prepare for potential course re-development opportunities due to the slow but eventual demise of the Flash player. These text-only (no audio) courses were built more than five years ago with a lesser known authoring tool, and the finished products were generated in Flash.

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The 4 S’s of mobile design

E-Learning Provocateur

That means I need to account for Flash compatibility. Given the iPhone can’t play swf files, I have to make sure I either don’t use them or I use an alternative format – potentially HTML5. Who knows… maybe Apple will do a backflip and start playing swf’s after all?

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Harbinger Raptivity: Packaged Interactivity by Joe Ganci

LearningGuild

Interactions are Flash SWF files and can play independently or within any authoring environment that accepts SWF files. Tags: Asynchronous Design Techniques Development Techniques Getting Started Instructional Design Tools.