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ASTD Webcast On New Mobile Learning Research

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Regular readers of this blog will be aware that we recently supported ASTD research on Mobile Learning , a report around that was released in May 2012. ASTD conducted a free webinar on that research report this week. iPad rules the market : John pointed out to a Forbes article that lists 50 largest deployments of iPads.

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Is MOOC Suitable For Corporate & Workplace Learning?

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You know an idea’s time has come when ASTD and CLO Magazine start talking about it and when Google launches a product (free BTW) to support the movement. Perhaps the biggest validation of the concept comes from Bersin in this article analyzing the proposed acquisition of MindLeaders by SkillSoft.

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Custom eLearning Development: How Long Does it Take?

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Last year I had written about this (read it here ) with reference to an ASTD article where some of the numbers were a bit out of synch or so appeared to me. Most of these look acceptable to me if we assume that ILT and Powerpoint to e-learning conversion is being done by SMEs and they don’t need support of any development staff.

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eLearning Development: How long does it Really take?

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According to an article posted on the ASTD website by Karl Kapp and Robyn A. Here’s the table from that article: My Take on These Numbers: 1. Defelice, the time needed to develop one hour of self paced eLearning could take between 90 hours and 1743 hours.

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Twitter: The #1 Tool for Learning

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A good article by ASTD: Twitter As a Learning Tool. While Twitter’s rise is not completely unexpected, the jump to #1 is still quite extraordinary. Here’s a short introductory video to Twitter: Further related reading: •. Really. •. A great post titled Twitter: Can We Use This As A Training Tool? •.

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More Digital Natives

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On the other hand Janet Clarey takes on the idea of digital natives and millenials but in a rather different way and in reference to another article in ASTDs T+D magazine. . “If it’s online, it must be true!&# ".

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6 Steps To A Better Mobile Learning Strategy

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Check out this webcast from ASTD covering Qualcomm case studies). This article points out how they are approaching the security issues - “The Army is pursuing a solution that sidesteps the security issue in a sense, one that ensures that these consumer smartphones access data without storing it. Identify Content.