Allen, our eLearning evangelist, has just announced the next set of webinars that he is going to be hosting. He has some interesting topics lined up- including mobile eLearning. Also, if you missed his previous sessions, you can find the recordings of those webinars here: Basics: 21st Century Skills & Adobe eLearning Suite. Advanced: 21st Century Skills and Adobe eLearning Suite. How do I make eLearning mobile? step by step walk through of producing mobile eLearning content with Captivate and the eLearning Suite. Schedule. MORE >>

Today’s post comes courtesy of Philippe Noyon, Care Account Manager at MindLeaders ThirdForce, who looks at how blended elearning strategies can drive positive outcomes in difficult circumstances for the Health and Social Care sectors If, like me, you’ve focused for the past two years on developing effective elearning strategies to address the learning and development needs of our partners in Health and Social Care, you can’t ignore the scale of the challenges facing these complex sectors. Finally, contrary to popular belief elearning is rarely effective on its own. MORE >>

So here is my Wish list for 2009: Quality verse Quantity - I’m hoping people/companies get away from the crappy voice-over-powerpoint training and focus on more engaging and better quality eLearning. Social/Collaborative Learning - as Michael mentioned web-conferencing and tools like Yammer, Twitter, Ning, Facebook, etc… I think we are going to be a very large part of eLearning over the next year. Distance Education - With the global economic downturn, I think traditional universities are going to be pushed more to eLearning/Distance Education. MORE >>

Will eLearning applications be among them? The eLearning potential for that big, beautiful, buttery smooth touchscreen you can carry anywhere is so enormous, it makes me hyper like a 3rd grader hopped up on Sugar Smacks. But I digress… Will Apple be the ones to finally put legitimate eLearning in our pockets? And heaven knows no other pocketable device thus far has given mobile eLearning real legs. The future of mobile eLearning truly begins July 11. I’m a gadget freak. I’ll admit it. Period. Perhaps. But I don’t care. MORE >>

link] - Presentation: Mobile Technology's Impact on Learning Presenter: Tim Bajarin Technology in Learning - have to dedicate 20 hours per week to keep up in just mobile space. Apply to day - Mobility key component to that Evolution of the computer (seen in mainframe/server, same cycle mini, same cycle desktops - Golden Age - Standard Platform - Buildup of compatible hw - Value shift to sw - Value shift to services We are at golden age with mobile. Mobile eLearning - eventually device independent? Enjoy. Pace of change tough for a technologist. iel11 MORE >>