HTML5: A Good Thing

Bill Zobrist Product Strategy Pearson

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Just for the record, when I say

“HTML5,” I’m including CSS,

JavaScript, and DOM

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A bit on your presenter: @bzobrist

• In education media for over 20 years

• Emerging & Online Product Strategy

• elearning Courseware

• Mobile learning apps

• The ebook guy

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I AM NOT A RCOKET SCIENTIST

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A bit about this session

• We’ll keep it light

• Non-technical

• Focus on enabling web content for learning

• Let’s have discussion!

Why I think HTML5 is the watershed event for

mobile learning

Bill Zobrist Product Strategy Pearson

Why is HTML5 a Good Thing?

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increasingly mobile - changing how we interact with the web

• We create content

• We share

• We continue to search for answers

• We watch a lot of video

• We burn through a lot of apps

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Change in Internet Use by Age

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Growth of mobile categories

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Killer App or Kill the App?

• Do we need another 100K apps?

• Only 5% of people use a free app 30 days after its been downloaded

For education, we need build once - play everywhere.

HTML5 can give us that(eventually)

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For the good of mobile learning - Flash may need to die

Really, Flash will have its place for a long time to come

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We need a great web experience - no matter how we decide to access it

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we have a problem:

Your browser dictates your view of the web

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Standards give an expected experience

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Enter HTML5

http://bit.ly/kKCm1X

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Highlights

• No plug-ins!• Offline Data• Drag & Drop• Geolocation• Semantic Tags• Canvas• History

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Video - No Plug-in! (but some headaches)

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Offline data storage

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Drag and Drop

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Geolocation

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Canvas for rich interactions

Look Ma, no Flash!

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The History API

• The illusion of “back”

• Loads only new part of page

• No page refresh = big performance upside!

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HTML5 to Education

• Video with no plugins…it just works!• Offline data storage … assessments?• Drag & Drop - activities• Geolocation - checking, but not Facebook?• Canvas … rich interactions• History … performance

THANKS!billzobrist@pearson.com

Twitter: bzobristLocation: usually near NYC

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HTML5: It’s a good thing.