I've had a few requests from customers and prospects to address some questions raised by the firestorm of corporate rhetoric between Adobe and Apple and the "future of Flash". If you're not familiar with this subject, you may want visit MORE >>

This morning Adobe stated that it will no longer develop the Flash player for mobile devices in favor of throwing their support behind HTML5 development. This will likely be a blow to Android device manufacturers who have counted on the Flash player support as one of the main differentiations from Apple devices, but what does it mean for e-learning and m-learning developers? For mobile learning it won't have much of an impact. Because of the need for cross-platform compatibility (i.e. So this decision will only bolster HTML5 as the platform of choice for mobile learning solutions. MORE >>

Instructional patterns surface over time as best practices that have bubbled up to the top of instructional design usage. Over time, instructional designers approaches to the same instructional problem coalesce around a similar, if not identical, scalable solutions. Scalable means they meet the need in most situations and are not cost nor time prohibitive to create. One such instructional problem and pattern involve how to teach soft skills. Soft skills have no definite right or wrong. How are these valuable role plays translated to the e-learning and mobile learning environment? MORE >>

My students often laugh at me when I say, "You need to go to the library." They grew up with a completely different strategy for research. Google first, Google second, if you don't see you topic on the first page, change topics. That's where search engines fail us a bit, and where the good old library can sometimes be a better resource. Think about it. In order to search for materials you need to know the right key terms, if you miss a relevant key term, then you may miss search results that would be helpful. Now think about a library, you search on a subject, find a book you think you need. MORE >>

When designing a course for mobile devices we have to make a fundamental decision: are we going to design the course for both smartphones or tablets.or If we choose to support smartphones, we don't have a lot of screen real estate. How do we account for that? If we choose to support tablets, we have a lot more screen real estate. How do we take advantage of that? Smartphones First off, what we are designing is a content-based experience. It's not a game. It's not a calculator of some kind. It's media-based (audio, video, animation) or interactive content (quizzes, games, simulations). MORE >>