Javascript + HTML5: The Future of Education Software

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 9, 2009 7:02 AM EDT
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Several months ago, I wrote how to make activity designers happy by making it easier to create simple learning activities using popular software development tools, particularly for the Sugar learning environment. Back then, I concluded that Adobe's Flash player and Flex libraries were the proper tools for this purpose. I was wrong. Adobe's flash and flex are great tools but they will never form the basis of a thriving ecosystem of open-source educational software. This is because Adobe's flash files are distributed in binary format, an immediate disincentive to sharing the source code.

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