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The battle between web technologies (read ‘ Apple and Adobe ‘) started a couple of years back when Apple decided to not support Flash on its newly launched iPad terming it buggy. The fact is the iPad has taken a significant lead in the tablets market. Also HTML5 was not ready for eLearning development then.
It was almost like using a beautifully designed iPad app. I really like what Articulate has done regarding publishing to HTML5 and enabling learners to use their iPad to consume courses created in Storyline. I would like to see Articulate gradually expand beyond the iPad and into other mobile devices over time. Conclusion.
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It’s an interesting graphic that actually places example iPad applications into Bloom’s levels of performance in the cognitive domain. This has bubbled up in my feeds not once, but several times now. Focussed around students, and not really workplace learning, but interesting nonetheless. Check it out.
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Since its launch, back in April 2010, Apple has sold more than 100 million iPads – a mind boggling quantity unmatched and way ahead of any other device manufacturer. A fact supported by the recent news that Barclays, one of the world’s largest banks, has just bought 8,500 iPads for use by their branch staff!
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The iPad in particular is heralded by some as the panacea of education. The iPad can do anything and everyone owns one, so you would be a luddite not to use it, either as a teacher or as a student. Insofar as these themes relate to e-learning, the obvious parallel for me is the undue influence of Apple. The archangel of autodidactism.
If there is one thing I heard from customers while working at Adobe was this, I want my learners to be able to take a course on their iPads or iPhone, but these mobile devices don’t support Flash. So how about a Captivate for iPad app, or a Articulate Engage iPad app or Camtasia or SnagIt for iPad?
iPad rules the market : John pointed out to a Forbes article that lists 50 largest deployments of iPads. John pointed to this survey which found that 73% of US organizations’ intend to buy iPads in 2012. There’s no doubt that iPad rules the tablet market and is also driving mobile learning adoption.
Since the calculator is Flash-based, it will not work on devices that do not support Adobe Flash (such as the iPad). Note: To use the calculator, you will need the free Adobe Reader (version 9 or newer) and the Adobe Flash Player.
As it is, iPhone and iPad don't play Flash content. It is official. Adobe, in a written statement , announced that it will not support Flash in mobile browsers henceforth. It will be a matter of time before new versions of other mobile devices (based on Android and other platforms) stop supporting Flash in browsers.
So if I were looking at a course on a Nokia Symbian phone vs. a Apple iPad, I’d expect the iPad to provide a much better user experience than on the Symbian phone simply because it is capable of much more.
In the example below, interface elements are resized and rearranged to best display on an Apple iPhone and iPad. This site looks really nice on my iPad. Prior to the mobile revolution, many web sites were designed with a navigation menu that runs along the top of the screen.
Perhaps what the customer really meant to say was that yes, they want their learners on mobile to be able to access the learning, but in a way that makes sense on the iPad, and also in a way that makes sense on the iPhone, and on the Kindle Fire, and on the Motorola Xoom, Droid, etc. In other words, One Size does Not Fit All.
Here are the steps I took to create an interactive a simulation of my iPad in Adobe Captivate: To begin, I downloaded and installed the Reflector program to my MacBook Pro. I made sure that my MacBook Pro and my iPad were on the same wireless network, then I started Reflector on my Mac. My iPad is using iOS8.
. “Can you make my elearning run on my iPad as well?” It sometimes comes from a CEO who’s very excited by his/her own new iPad and at other times because of the perception that everyone else is doing it. ” – we’ve been increasingly hearing this request from clients.
When Raptivity released its first collection of mobile interactions for iPad and iPhone based eLearning, the path-breaking HTML5 Pack received several accolades. For example, in the iPad world, there is no mouse-over, so any interaction involving mouse-over has to use mouse clicks.
This is probably why we are seeing an increased use of learning management systems, ipads, and various apps in K-12 settings. Heck, 89% of teachers believe that the use of ed-tech improves student outcomes in the classroom.
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