Another indicator of just how massive mobile learning is going to be, is the MIT Media Lab announcing on 16 August that they are creating the MIT Center for Mobile Learning, with funding gifted from Google Education. The press release says it will be ‘dedicated to transforming education and learning through... more
‘Wireless Health’ including mobile technology, medical and healthcare data collected at the recent Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) 6th Annual Convergence Summit in San Diego, indicates 4 out of 5 US doctors plan to buy an iPad in the next year. This makes it pretty clear that the medical health revolution is well on... more
Mobile is certainly a buzz word right now and not just in elearning circles. As many of you know, Litmos released one of the first mobile LMS solutions for iPhone, Android and iPad about a year ago. It was a great entry into the mobile space for Litmos and allowed... more
I’ve been asking around my eLearning network on Twitter to find out who’s going to which events this year and this is what I’ve come up with so far in the training, eLearning, mLearning and immersive games areas: Training 2011 Conference and Expo, February 7 – 9, San Diego, California, USA... more
In August 2010, Ambient Insight released a new report called “The US Market for Mobile Products and Learning: 2009-2014 Forecast and Analysis” with the subheading ‘US Takes the Lead in the Global Mobile Learning Market: Consumers and Healthcare Buyers Drive the Market.’ It is a US-centric report and there are... more
Session 601 at mLearnCon was called ‘mLearning Myths and Misconceptions’ and hosted by Robert Gadd (@robgadd4), Co Founder and President of OnPoint Digital. Here’s a little intro from the mLearnCon website: “Every enterprise Training & Development team currently considering its options for the design and distribution of mLearning efforts for... more
Session 502 at #mLearnCon lead by Richard Clark (@rdclark) was focused on ‘mLearning on Multiple Devices: A Practical Guide’. From the mLearnCon website the session guide reads: “Unlike e-Learning on the desktop, where a couple of platforms predominate (Windows and Mac OS X), mobile platforms come in many different forms... more
Scott McCormick (@scottfloat) from Float Learning, took session 401 at mLearnCon which covered “The First 10 Questions Your Company Needs to Ask Before You Adopt mLearning”. So yes, there were ten questions, but look out because then there are all the sub-questions! Here are my session notes: Why the heck... more
Clark Quinn (@Quinnovator) and Richard Clark (@rdclark) presented session 201 at mLearnCon on “Context, Content and Collaboration: Keys to Successful mLearning”. There was a lot of information covered in this session, but here are just a few of the takeaways: 63% of mobile workers prefer to use a smart phone... more
I first met the presenter of this session, Michelle Lentz (@writetechnology), at DevLearn in 2009 and now again at mLearnCon, plus she has become a good friend in the Twittersphere. Michelle is a technology evangelist and she is a wealth of knowledge blogging on everything elearning, social media and technology... more
