mLearning Trends

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Back Again + Captivate 8 Review (Summary: WOW!)

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I guess they have finally found a way to get me to shut up and get onboard by actively endorsing their new product and approach.

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My 2012 Enterprise mLearning Predictions Recap

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This recent post suggests more tablets were received/activated on Christmas Day than smartphones fueled by our sustained interest in gadgets to help inform, entertain and hopefully educate us in times of need. Gamification seems to be a likely answer to that question.

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CellCast App for BlackBerry 10

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Both apps allow users to access training content, complete surveys, interact within defined social networks, and actively participate in game-enabled learning environments and check their status on leader boards – the BB10 just makes all those formal and informal learning interactions more enjoyable.

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Picking the "Right" Smartphone for mLearning

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Everyone talks about how smartphones are really "pocket computers" -- and to some extent they are -- but the reality is some of the older mobile device still in active service are more akin to an early Osborne 1 luggable portable PC (circa 1981) than they are to a sleek and powerful mordern Dell Precision laptop or Apple Macbook Pro.

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My "Top Ten List" for Mobile Learning News in 2009

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Market Activity/Consolidations. Market Activity/Consolidations #2. So, in no particular order of importance, here's my "Top Ten List" of mlearning highlights and milestones and look forward to seeing other lists and sharing comments. RIM bought Chalk for their mobile Chalkboard offering. As they say, the rising tide lifts all ships.

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Enterprise mLearning Predictions for 2012

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Not that companies need to even create “games” per se; rather, the trend will be towards gamifying our standard formal learning actions and informal social interactions through the addition of point systems, achievement leveling/scaling, overall leader boards, badging systems and tangible reward/incentives.

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Media Encoding Tools for Mobile Learning

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As a techie actively involved in mlearning content production every day - much of that media-based - I can fully appreciate the benefit this sort of service can offer mlearning content producers and practitioners. The Cons : This sort of cloud-based offering is ideal for single authors but not necessarily great for content creation teams.

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