mLearning Trends

OCTOBER 31, 2010

The Feature Sets - A Range of Possibility The variety of available mobile devices enables a myriad of potential uses for the preparation, delivery and tracking of learning for mobile workers; and the more capable the mobile device, the wider the array of possible content delivery methods. Content Creation. Training Delivery.

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Social Networks Social Network Knowledge Worker ADL 73

mLearning Trends

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Back on December 30 2011, I scoped eight predictions ranging from hardware/software to content types and authoring tools to macro-level mobility trends our team felt would influence the market for mLearning products and services for the year and I wasn’t disappointed (or much surprised) about how it all played out.

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Predictions Enterprise Flash to HTML5 Conversion Authoring Tools 64

mLearning Trends

MAY 27, 2014

In one fell swoop, Adobe has significantly “changed the game” from what (until recently) I considered their “sub-standard support” for mobile learning in Captivate 5/6/7 to what’s now clearly an offering that’s running at or certainly with the front of the pack of authoring tools for mobile content. How about “WOW!”

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Summary Captivate Adobe Captivate Adobe 70

mLearning Trends

MARCH 27, 2011

The new web-based HTML5 authoring package looks and performs quite well and delivers an impressive array of authoring features that can produce exceptionally nice looking mobile content for the various web kit-based mobile devices and tablets including Apple’s iPad and the full range of Android-based tablets. Check it out here.

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Authoring Impatica Flash to HTML5 Conversion Rapid Intake 97

mLearning Trends

JUNE 13, 2010

This new functionality allows mobile workers to access learning content deployed as standard SCORM v1.2 and v2004 SCORM packages (as generated by a variety of 3rd party authoring tools) and allows for full content playback and tracking in both online AND offline settings. and higher) and smartphones running Windows Mobile v6.1

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Player SCORM ADL iPod 53

mLearning Trends

JANUARY 10, 2010

Another set of challenges inherent with enterprise mlearning stems from the fact that teams want to prepare, distribute and track the kinds of compelling, informative and visually interesting content their users want/demand but they also need to ensure the content is still easy to create, distribute and secure when deployed out to the audience.

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Apple iPhone Performance Support iPod 49

mLearning Trends

JANUARY 4, 2010

A RT from Tim Martin at the Elearning Guild brought my attention to a blog posting by Wesley Fryer at Stormchasers about his use of Google Presentation -- part of the free cloud-based Google Docs service -- as a means of distributing mobile learning content to his ecosystem. There's no tracking of who accessed the content and when.

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Google Docs Doc Google eLearning Guild 40

mLearning Trends

APRIL 15, 2012

This free App for iOS devices is quite cleaver and an excellent example of how compelling user generated content can be built on-the-fly using only an iPhone or iPad and easily shared with a broader audience. Everything is KISS elegent here including and sign-up and friending process.

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Podcasts Podcaster Podcasting Dreamweaver 47

mLearning Trends

APRIL 14, 2010

Instinctively, I reasoned another one of the "Big 10" LMS/Talent Management platform players was finally joining the mLearning party with their own well conceived and highly polished solution for the creation, packaging, delivery and tracking on mobile-friendly content to on-the-go workers via their now omnipresent smartphone devices.

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Saba Mobile Learning Mobile Productivity 43

mLearning Trends

JANUARY 18, 2010

As active practitioners and consultants for enterprise mobile learning initiatives, a frequent question we get asked is “What kinds of tools can you recommend to help us test our mLearning content before we release it to our mobile workers?” from the device manufacturer’s support site or other common web locations.

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mLearning Trends

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

By making content available beyond the standard classroom or desktop-delivered experience, Verizon Wireless was able to provide enhanced access to just-in-time training in a shortened time frame via the customized mobile application on users’ smartphones, including Android ®, BlackBerry® wireless handhelds and Windows Mobile ® devices.

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Blended Learning eLearning Guild DevLearn Enterprise 40

mLearning Trends

JANUARY 7, 2011

Tablets from the “tier one players” will obviously have an impact on the market and the fact that many of them run Flash content makes them ultra-appealing for mobile learning situations. Tablets ranging in size from pocket minis to full-sized and dockable slates are featured everywhere with many supporting the newer Android 3.0/Honeycomb

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iPad Enterprise Toys Apple 52

mLearning Trends

APRIL 6, 2010

In the video, we demonstrate how a combination of iPad-compatible M4V videos, MP3 podcasts, animated PowerPoint presentations and other mobile friendly web content are pushed down to a secure learning framework and enriched with tracked assessments, targeted messaging/notifications and mobile-accessible social networking platforms.

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iPad Social Networks Video Apple 40

mLearning Trends

JANUARY 3, 2010

These trends will help ensure a very complex and hybrid device ecosystem will emerge within the enterprise mlearning market that will have an effect on mlearning content creation and delivery. Real customers prove there's finally a market for mlearning platforms and tools, custom content development and related value added services.

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Mobile Learning News Mobile Social Networks 44

mLearning Trends

MAY 3, 2010

The discipline of Mobile Learning was spotlighted in several of the main sessions including a well attended session titled “ WB-11 Developing and Distributing Media-Rich Content for Mobile Workers ” in which I was a featured panelist along with Keith O’Loughlin from Intuition.

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Flash Player Enterprise Mobile Learning Mobile 40

mLearning Trends

MARCH 26, 2010

Thanks to our friends at 50 Lessons and Element K for use of their awesome mobile-friendly content from our CellCast Mobile Library that was included in the demo submission to Apple. Figure 5 - Post content assessment using CellCast testing engine. Never a dull day in the world of mobile learning!

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iPad Simulations Apple Dreamweaver 43

mLearning Trends

JANUARY 20, 2010

Level 2 mLearning content broadens the core messaging capabilities found at Level 1 and enables two-way messaging campaigns to support additional mobile use cases such as mobile testing and surveys, basic data collection and even mobile entertainment.

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Content Server Mobile Summary 40

mLearning Trends

JANUARY 6, 2010

Everyone involved in mlearning -- from the learners themselves to the good folks designing and creating the content -- is set to benefit from the flood of positive news and announcements this week coming from both device OEMs and the wireless carriers. Running Android v2.1 (no

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ElementK Apple Flash Player Enterprise 40

mLearning Trends

APRIL 3, 2010

Send me an email to rgadd @onpointlearning.com and I'll even setup a private account for you and assign several more content examples for you to play around with too. If you're lucky enough to already have your new iPad, we invite you to go to the App Store and download a free copy of our Widget and try it out.

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iPad iTunes iPod Apple 40

mLearning Trends

JANUARY 5, 2011

x, is a well crafted desktop-based application that we've used many times in the past to help design and produce mobile learning content that can be packaged for delivery with many different enterprise mobile learning platforms including our own, Intuition 's and others. SumTotal's ToolBook authoring tool, now in version 10.x,

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GeoLearning SumTotal GeoMaestro Toolbook 52

mLearning Trends

JANUARY 30, 2013

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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Social Networks Case Study iPhone Apple 55

mLearning Trends

MARCH 8, 2012

million pixels) Faster A5X processor & quad core graphics support Standard Wi-Fi and optional 4G/LTE high-speed modem Improved cameras (front & back) with image stabilization Content capture at true 1080p HD Bluetooth 4.0

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iPad Apple Camera Voice 56

mLearning Trends

MAY 25, 2012

Every organization approaches security in their own way and the variables differ across industries and use cases.

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Mobile Learning Mobile Security Policies 44

mLearning Trends

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We should know – we offer a mobile web app and virtually no one opts to use it when the native app is also available given the lack of content types and features supported today. tiny screens, static content, awkward user experience, others). Near Bullseye.

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Social Networks Enterprise Mobile Learning Mobile 80

mLearning Trends

JUNE 11, 2010

CellCast can deliver 18 different kinds of mobile learning content ensuring there are reliable and cost effective ways to reach virtually everyone in an organization's extended ecosystem in one way or another (likely several) from just one integrated platform. A high level summary of what comprises makes our CellCast Solution version 3.x

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Social Networks Solution Innovation Flash to HTML5 Conversion 48

mLearning Trends

JANUARY 2, 2011

I will agree that accessing mobile learning content via a device’s embedded web browser can be an effective and useful delivery modality (and is improving every year) but the overall experience is generally watered down and less effective and engaging. Here Come the Experts!

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Predictions Enterprise Social Networks Flash to HTML5 Conversion 85

mLearning Trends

JANUARY 31, 2011

Garin Hess and his team over at Rapid Intake have announced a new suite of tools called mLearning Studio that will allow content authors to output SCORM-conformant courseware along with included assessments as either web-friendly Flash courseware or mobile-friendly HTML5 packages with the click of a button.

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Rapid Intake Flash to HTML5 Conversion Authoring Raptivity 67

mLearning Trends

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Several more of the Tier 2/Tier 3 LMS vendors also “tossed their hat in the ring” (or towards it anyway) announcing some way of publishing content so it could appear via a mobile browser on the iPhones , iPads and Android device trying to capture a few of their most “loyal fans” in learning land. Validated (“Triple”).

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Social Networks Flash to HTML5 Conversion Flash Flash Player 56

mLearning Trends

JANUARY 6, 2010

Site operators can now focus on content and the user experience while allowing us to ensure that content is available to all users on the most popular Internet and mobile devices." 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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Media Mobile Learning Mobile Tools 40

mLearning Trends

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

A linked feature story in the update that immediately caught my eye was titled " Best Practices for Creating Mobile Learning Content " and clicking that link shuttled me over to SumTotal's corporate web site where I registered to download their latest mobile-related white paper.

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e-learning vendor vendor SumTotal eLearning Guild 40

mLearning Trends

JANUARY 2, 2010

Moreover, cross-market trends in mobile applications, content, devices, web access and general awareness are now unstoppable and every organization must now move beyond the "pondering stage" and into the "action stage". Knock, Knock!! Others vendors will quickly follow/respond. The arrival of Adobe's Flash Player v10.1

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Predictions Social Networks Flash to HTML5 Conversion Mobile Learning 40