Tag Archives: mLearning

Mobile Learning – The Third Dimension

Alan Samuel | Mobile Learning | 1,175 Views | March 19, 2013 | Write the first comment

mobile-learning-third dimension

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. – Jack Welch.

For today’s organizations, the quest for demonstrable ‘competitive advantage’ is unending and seen as the key to success. The ability to identify and capture this advantage is second only to retaining it, which, in the ever-changing landscape of globalization, shrinking markets and the shifting sands of technology is challenging to say the least! Part of this equation is the importance of aligning the workforce, identifying, grooming and retaining talent is critical and therefore maintaining performance skills, knowledge and motivation levels are all key components of sharpening that competitive edge!

Take A Leap Of Faith With Mobile Learning

Amit Garg | Mobile Learning | 828 Views | February 25, 2013 | 2 comments

Take A Leap Of Faith With Mobile Learning This article was originally published in Learning Technologies 2013’s special show guide issue. Mobile Learning has been on the horizon for a long time but has met with scepticism and technical constraints in its early days. Now, even though bandwidths have improved and devices have become more capable, mobile learning is still struggling to take off. The recently released Towards Maturity report ‘Mobile Learning at Work’ indicates that only 30% of organisations are incorporating mobile learning. Interestingly, these statistics are only marginally better than those reported by ASTD for the US market in May 2012. So what ails mobile learning?

15 Authoring Tools For mEnabling Your eLearning For iPads

Alan Samuel | Mobile Learning | 4,213 Views | January 30, 2013 | 7 comments

15 Authoring Tools For mEnabling Your eLearning For iPads Last week I asked if you had thought about mEnabling your eLearning for iPads (mEnabling, is what we are calling the process of getting your existing eLearning to run on iPads and other tablets) but didn’t really tell you how? So here’s a few – 15 actually! – pointers on some of the tools out there, that you can use to help you take that ‘leap of faith’ into mLearning. We talked about some of these tools in two of our previous blog posts, 5 Rapid Authoring Tools To Publish Courses For Your iPads and Converting ELearning To Tablet Learning: Cost-effective Solutions, but I have now put together a wider list of authoring tools that can both help you convert your legacy content and which can also be used to develop new, mEnabled content for delivery to iPads and tablets.

The Four Stages of Mobile Maturity

Abhijit Kadle | Mobile Learning | 721 Views | November 6, 2012 | 1 comment

The Four Stages of Mobile Maturity After posing some questions about what constitutes a mobile learning ecosystem, I’ve continued working towards a model that can describe a mobile learning ecosystem, a task far harder than initially imagined. As has been discussed endlessly on our blog before, the future of learning is mobile. One interesting aspect I’ve noticed from my research is that organizations move on an evolutionary path as they mature in their adoption of mobile technologies that impact learning significantly. Not all organizations have come along the path equally, some are beginning, some are advanced on the way, some haven’t even started.

Some Thoughts On Tablet Learning (aka Elearning On iPads)

Amit Garg | Mobile Learning | 1,406 Views | October 9, 2012 | 6 comments

The Future Of Mobile Learning

Abhijit Kadle | Mobile Learning | 2,577 Views | October 4, 2012 | 1 comment

Last week Amit and I made a small presentation to the Mobile Learning MOOC (MobiMOOC) about the possibilities in the future of mobile learning. We’d like to share what we presented because it encapsulates technologies that will impact/affect the future of mobile learning and learning in general, readers of this blog will probably find it of special interest.

You can find our presentation here. Our presentation identified four key technology areas that will impact learning in the future:

MobiMOOC – Join The Corporate m-Learning Week (24th – 28th Sep 2012)

Amit Garg | Mobile Learning | 147 Views | September 20, 2012 | Write the first comment

Is MOOC Suitable For Corporate & Workplace Learning?

Amit Garg | Mobile Learning | 726 Views | September 17, 2012 | 6 comments

Is MOOC Suitable For Corporate & Workplace Learning? The MobiMOOC is now in its second week and there have been some very interesting discussions happening there. Personally, it’s been a great experience getting to understand the very diverse opinions and views. If you’ve not joined in yet I’d urge you to do so by joining the Google Groups here. If you are completely new to MOOC you’d do well to check the Wikipedia page here for a quick intro and lots of links to read further if you wish. The concept of a MOOC is itself not very old (started in 2007-2008), so I wouldn’t really worry if it sounds completely alien. In the short while they have been around, it has outgrown the buzzword stage and some MOOCs in the university space seem to be flourishing already. Some prominent ones that come to mind are – Coursera, edx, Udacity. In some senses, I’m quite convinced that MOOCs are the future of higher education.

The Mobile Learning Ecosystem I – 10 Important Questions

Abhijit Kadle | Mobile Learning | 1,060 Views | September 5, 2012 | 4 comments

The Mobile Learning Ecosystem Mobile technology penetration is racing ahead in the corporate workplace, with the BYOD (bring your own device) movement affecting companies in varied ways. During some time off earlier this month, I’ve been ruminating how a ‘mobile learning ecosystem’ evolves in an organization; here are ten questions I asked. Thought you might find them interesting. This is probably the first in a series of three post, the first in which I pose questions, in the second I try to analyze the components and ‘ecosystem’ in the manner of actor/resource/process, and in the last attempt to draw some conclusions on how L&D may be able to assist the development of such ecosystems.

Key Decision Areas for Implementing Mobile Learning – LearnX 2012 Session