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The 3 mindsets of m-learning

E-Learning Provocateur

Having said that, in M-Learning’s dirty little secrets I also advocated pull learning. It is this mindset which urges us to realise the full potential of m-learning. This approach empowers the learner to pull the content at their discretion, wherever they are, at the time of need.

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The 4 S’s of mobile design

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Given that smartphone sales are estimated to exceed PC sales by the end of this year, and mobile Internet users are expected to exceed desktop Internet users soon after, I have finally concluded that the time is ripe for mobile learning. I’ve been reading quite a bit recently about the need to keep m-learning short.

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Where is L&D heading?

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How do you see the impact and importance of big data, adaptive learning, mobile learning and micro-learning? While mobile learning gets a lot of hype – rightly or wrongly – my target audience is office bound. While this isn’t actually mobile learning, it leverages the technology.

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The foundations of innovation in L&D

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Micro-learning and micro-assessments have a rich source of reference content to which remedial feedback can link. If the content library, knowledge base and ESN are mobile accessible, they support mobile learning. In this way, not only do we innovate now, but we have a platform for innovating into the future.

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My 1-liners from ElNet 2011

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Aside: Tom’s insight reminds me of one of my earliest blog posts, Text ain’t half bad , and aligns with thoughts I’m having currently about mobile learning. Ruth McElhone assigns points to her students for their contributions to an internal social media platform, and they require 1000 points to pass the course.

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All hail the electronic calf

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Insofar as these themes relate to e-learning, the obvious parallel for me is the undue influence of Apple. The shining light of mobile learning. I’m not inclined to develop device-specific mobile apps, for example, but rather HTML5 that is web-based and device agnostic. The archangel of autodidactism. BlackBerry?)

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M-Learning’s dirty little secrets

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For all the rhetoric in the LMS market about mobile learning, IMHO they are designed principally for the desktop. While some have mobile apps, not all do, and the user experience has been the subject of criticism. Moreover, I think I would have been going down the wrong track. But more on that later… SECRET #4.

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