Tools+for+Accessing+e-Learning

= Tools for Accessing e-Learning =

=Tools for Accessing e-Learning=

Learning requires tools to find, navigate, display, and play e-learning content.

 * ==Web Browsers==
 * ==Media Players and Viewers==

= Web Browsers =

==**Internet Explorer**(IE for short) www.microsoft.com is the most popular browser on Windows operating systems. IE is also available for Macintosh operating systems. The IE first version was released in 1995.==

In 2011, Microsoft released IE 9.0.

 * == It dedicates more pixels to websites, making sites look their best.==
 * == Aero Snap lets you see two sites or pages side by side, compare products from different websites.==
 * ==The new tab recovery feature help ensure that information isn’t lost and keeps people browsing when a website isn’t working correctly.==

Firefox has the following features:

 * ==Popup Blocking==
 * ==Tabbed Browsing-- View more than one web page in a single window with this time saving feature==
 * ==Spell checking==
 * ==Live bookmarking==
 * ==Download manager==
 * ==Smarter Search Google Search is built right into the toolbar.==

==Chrome was released by Google in 2008. As of August 2011, Chrome is the third most widely used browser with 23.16% worldwide usage share of web browsers, according to [|StatCounter].==

==In 2008, Google released a large portion of Chrome's source code as an open source project entitled Chromium. This enabled third-party developers to create the browser for the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.==

Safari has the following features:

 * ==Support for Apple’s VoiceOver screen reader==
 * ==Full-page zoom==
 * ==Closed Captions for HTML5 Video==

Opera's features include:

 * == Tabbed browsing ==
 * ==Page zooming==
 * == Mouse gestures ==
 * ==Download manager==
 * ==Built-in phishing and malware protection==

E-Learning Designing and Viewers
==Before designing your e-learning course, consider which media you need: video, voice-over animation, interactive simulations, games, documents, spreadsheets, virtual reality worlds, etc. Identify the file formats and find available players.==