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Updates On HTML5 From Google I/O

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On day 1 of the I/O Google has made many announcements like release of open source, royalty-free video format WebM, Chrome Web store, opened up Google Wave, released open source Font API and directory etc. eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #2 The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

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Audio/Video Support – HTML5 has added new video and audio tags that can play video/audio in a browser without a plugin but it doesn’t officially support any video or audio format. A few browsers like Firefox support Ogg Theora (an open source format) while others like Safari support H.264 in Flash Based eLearning Development?

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eLearning: Top Posts of 2009 - Upside Learning Blog

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Here’s a screen grab of tag cloud for our posts: Here is a list of some of the best posts of 2009: Top 20 Most Viewed Posts. The Right Way To Go About Open Source LMS. The Right Way To Go About Open Source LMS. We started this blog in March 2009 and in its 10 month existence has more than a 100 posts.

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Social Media Libraries for Flash

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about the content of a learning module and get answers/opinions from others following the course tag. However, they open sourced it later for the ease of updating. This is just one example. The options, however, are multifold. This library has good documentation and tutorials and also supports URL shortening.

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Future Of Flash Is Open Source

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Adobe, recently announced moving their open-source development to Sourceforge. Looks like a desire to speed up their open-source development around the Flash platform. The new portal called Open@Adobe will hold Adobe’s open source projects in coming days.

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The Real Cost of a Free (Open Source) LMS!

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Add to it the fact that its open source which makes it free to use, has made it very popular. But is Moodle or any other open source LMS (there are a few good ones like the ones mentioned here ) really free? So what is a real cost of a free (open source) LMS? That’s the only thing that’s free. Nothing else!

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eLearning Development: Useful Firefox add-ons

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What makes Firefox different from other browsers is it being open source and highly customizable using Firefox add-ons. Tags: Learning Technology eLearning Development Browser eLearning Firefox Flash. Anyone can create add-ons to suit their needs and then share it for others to use through Mozilla’s add-ons website.

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