It’s time once again to take stock of what happened in enterprise mobile learning and see if any of my 2011 predictions hit their intended targets. One year ago today, I offered nine predictions running the gamut of hardware, software, industry players and general market movements based on trends we were experiencing in the commercial mobile learning marketplace; here’s my analysis of where these predictions landed twelve months later. Mobile Apps Become Essential to Enterprise mLearning. Google surprised everyone by buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5B MORE >>

Since its launch, back in April 2010, Apple has sold more than 100 million iPads – a mind boggling quantity unmatched and way ahead of any other device manufacturer. It literally revolutionised the ‘hand held’ mobile, tablet market across the world. From “the Tablet is coming” to “it’s already here” – touch screens, portability, screen size, easy to use features and mobility have made iPads hugely popular and we are witnessing growing levels of adoption across both, the corporate and education markets. number of Rapid Authoring tools, like Adobe Captivate 5.5 MORE >>

January’s announcement of iBooks Author , Apple’s free tool for creating multi-touch books for the iPad, was big news for educators. And while most of the focus has been on textbooks and classroom learning, we think there is a huge opportunity for workplace learning and training to leverage iBooks as well. When Dow Agrosciences , one of our long-standing clients, asked us to create an iBook for field reps with little to no internet connectivity, we jumped at the chance to learn about the tool. Apple has dropped gift in the eLearning industry’s lap. 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. So this decision will only bolster HTML5 as the platform of choice for mobile learning solutions. MORE >>

Mobile technology, by far, has been the most rapidly adopted technology in history. At Upside Learning, we understand this well and have constantly strived to address multifarious platforms in this technology space. Over the past couple of months, we have discussed how mobile technology will permeate into our lives, radically changing the way we live and learn. Here is a collection of some of our top posts 10 on Mobile Learning (mLearning). The Advent Of Mobile Learning Technology. General Considerations For Mobile Learning (Mlearning). MORE >>