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The Unstoppable Force of M-Learning

LearnDash

I find it quite fascinating that in 2012 (roughly two years after Apple introduced the iPad), one in five U.S. One study indicated that roughly 38% of all children under the age of eight have used a cell phone, or other mobile device to play games, use apps, watch videos, TV shows an movies. Popular and Growing.

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#10 to #1 LMSs of 2012

eLearning 24-7

Other final countdowns: Europe – great song, but really how many times can you listen to “it’s the final countdown” Movie starring Kirk Douglas, Charlie Sheen – “The Final Countdown”, the navy goes back in time before Dec. 7, 1941 – great movie. Here are #25 to #11 for 2012.

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Even better than the real thing: can VR work for enterprise training?

TalentLMS

First, there was the early nineties fad, of which only the cult movie “The Lawnmower Man” remains. Then there was the early hype behind Oculus Rift (first announced in 2012), which took four more years to materialize. Virtual Reality seems to have finally found its stride. It seems that third time’s the charm.

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Will the iPad continue its tablet domination? A look at the market landscape

Xyleme

Since Apple launched the iPad in April 2010, the first in the new generation of media tablets to hit the market, it has sold more than 30 million units. March – Apple releases the iPad 2. This leaves us with just two players for the future: Apple with the iPad and Google with Android. July – HP releases the TouchPad.

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EBook profits: A shot in the arm for content producers

Aptara

The source explained that while in the 2012 fiscal year, electronic offerings provided 21 percent of revenue for HarperCollins, then spiked to 26 percent as of the third quarter of fiscal 2013. This is a major jump, indicating an annual 46 percent growth.

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How Geek is Geek?

Mark Oehlert

Anyway, this got me thinking that re-reading something like Starship Troopers (having never watched more than 10 minutes of that disgraceful movie) might be some sort of cultural marker of being a geek. My first programming experience was BASIC on an Apple IIe. Those are all analogies too but they're also wicked cool. They always do.

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Six topics for the price of one

Jay Cross

I store a file named 2013 Jay’s Stories in Apple’s iCloud so I can easily access it from any of my computers. (I I’ll talk with Apple about this but I am going back to Dropbox. Inside Higher Ed, and Princeton Alumni Weekly rate Quiet a top nonfiction book of 2012. We became obsessed with movie stars.