1. Expectations From eLearning Authoring Tools
Lists some features and functions that eLearning professionals normally expect from authoring tools.

2. How To Create Successful M-Learning Strategy: mLearnCon – Part I
A short summary of an mLearning strategy workshop (from mLearnCon) listing elements that one should consider when creating mLearning strategy.

3. Rapid Authoring Tools For Creating mLearning
Discusses some rapid authoring tools that let authors develop content targeted at mobile devices.

4. LMS: A Quick SWOT Analysis
What does the future hold for the LMS as we know it? This post provides a quick analysis.

5. Three Reasons To Focus On Media Design In Learning
Instructional design is the first step in making a learning solution instructionally sound. However, it is equally important to ensure that the learning is interesting, engaging and interactive. Know the three reasons why eLearning should focus more on the media design besides instructional design.

6. Ten Must-Have Features In A Mobile-LMS
The future of eLearning is mobile. As mobile learning gains ground there will be (and already is) a growing need to look beyond notifications for users and quick-follow-up assessments through mobile devices. This post lists 10 useful (need to have) features in a mobile version of an LMS (segregated into Learner and Administrator functions).

7. Top 7 Things To Consider Before Implementing SCORM For Mobile Devices
Lists the 7 key points to be kept in mind before considering SCROM implementation for mobile devices.

8. Smokescreen – The Future Of Flash Player?
Debates if Smokescreen, an open source project implemented in HTML5 and JavaScript, would effectively allow complex animations and interactions developed in Flash to work on Flash disabled mobile platforms.

9. SCORM Cloud- Will It Really Change The Game?
Debates if SCORM Cloud has the potential to change the scene on the Learning Management domain. Get a mini-quick-review of the SCORM Cloud here.

10. Dan Pink Talks About Motivation
An insightful video about what motivates and what doesn’t, visualized in a great cartoon animation style.

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Primarily, it reads the binary SWF file and renders its animation and audio content to standard web compliant format. The Smokescreen project demos are available at this the smokescreen’s website, these demos will work on the HTML5 compatible browsers Firefox 3.6, Chrome 5, Safari 4 and Opera 10.53.

Here’s is what Simon Willison has to say about Smokescreen:

Chris Smoak’s Smokescreen, “a Flash player written in JavaScript”, is an incredible piece of work. It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio and turns them in to base64 encoded data:uris, then stitches the vector graphics back together as animated SVG.

This is just a beginning and there are several benefits for mLearning developers as with Smokescreen they will be able develop content using existing Flash skills and run it across all the mobile device browsers. Although the project is still in the initial stages and for now is targeted only at advertisers. I feel it has potential to improve over time and allow complex animations and interactions developed in Flash to work on Flash disabled mobile platforms. Apple’s blocking Flash has actually pushed the developers to innovate and essentially develop the Flash player in HTML5 and JavaScript. I wouldn’t be surprised to see future releases of Adobe’s Flash Professional publishing HTML5 compatible output.

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