Monthly Archives: July 2011

India And The Mobile Internet Revolution

Abhijit Kadle | Mobile Learning | 716 Views | July 27, 2011 | 1 comment

Five Practical Mobile Learning Tips

Abhijit Kadle | Mobile Learning | 2,815 Views | July 26, 2011 | 8 comments

Five Practical Mobile Learning Tips

Find a problem with learning or performance first, think about learning next, and mobile learning last. This is somewhat analogous to “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Look for a learning/performance problem and analyze carefully if mobile learning is a possible solution and not the other way round. Ask if there will be a real benefit for the user. Ask if the user job profile involves individuals being substantially ‘mobile’ and not tied to a centralized location. Also factor in their use of and comfort with mobile devices.

Some Thoughts On Failure

Abhijit Kadle | Upside Learning | 1,239 Views | July 21, 2011 | 2 comments

I’ll admit it; I failed miserably at something this week. After having labored over a presentation, the elements of which I’ve been obsessing about and researching for more than a few days, I found I couldn’t tie them together into a cohesive vision. Without a vision, there was nothing to articulate in the presentation. Result? – failure; and in a way that I found disappointing after spending so much time thinking of ways to tie the elements together, coming up with a theme, and a presentation style.

Visualization Tool – Visual.ly

Abhijit Kadle | Learning Design | 664 Views | July 14, 2011 | Write the first comment

At Play – Storytelling And Story-making

Abhijit Kadle | eLearning | 591 Views | July 7, 2011 | 2 comments

In my recent play sessions with my six-year old (soon to be seven) I realize that one critical element of children’s play, and indirectly learning, is the ability to tell stories and just plain make them up going along. As adults, I think some of us lose that ability somewhere along the way; perhaps its one reason why society values storytellers and makers so much (writers, singers, film-makers, animators…). Typically, the kid and I indulge in play sessions that use Lego as the base toy and then build an imaginary world for our Lego models to inhabit and interact with. Somewhere along the way, events with effects are added and stories occur in the imaginary environment with the models playing roles. This allows the most ordinary Lego models to become characters in the narratives children are creating when at play.

Design Thinking for Educators

Abhijit Kadle | eLearning | 1,052 Views | July 6, 2011 | 1 comment

13 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 25

Abhijeet Valke | Weekly Digest | 578 Views | July 5, 2011 | 4 comments

The mLearning flavor spills over into this week too as we scour the web for the best in mobile everything.

We recently concluded a great show at mLearnCon 2011. You can read our first impressions of what we saw and heard at the exposition in Abhijit Kadle’s blog post. Also, get a sneak peek into the event’s backchannel right here.

It’s no secret that effective learning cannot be achieved without a robust strategy. If this remains true for eLearning, why shouldn’t you have a strategy for mLearning too?

3 Essential Themes for Mobile Learning Systems

Abhijit Kadle | Mobile Learning | 1,670 Views | July 4, 2011 | 1 comment

This takes on a post I wrote several weeks ago, that spoke about four themes that will (and not five) predominate learning in the future. As we prepare to iterate development of Upside2Go, we will need to start figuring out what sort of features our users (learners, managers, administrators) would really like from a mobile LMS. While our current system offers some cool features, we must look further into the future. This is where the rubber meets the road, by dreaming up features we invent the mLearning systems future right here. Taking the trends I’ve mentioned before, and the huge increase in persistent internet connection personal computing devices, I feel there need likely be three key themes around which the features would coalesce. (this discounts our current feature set)