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Introducing New Technology: From Promise to Reality

Allison Rossett

Last year, speaking to a conference of aviation trainers, John Alonso, CTO, OutStart , observed that ninety percent of mobile learning pilot projects he is aware of have failed. The part of the paper that resonated with me was the definition of the two contrasting approaches – a standard “tool view” approach vs. a sociotechnical approach.

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Introducing New Technology: From Promise to Reality

Allison Rossett

Last year, speaking to a conference of aviation trainers, John Alonso, CTO, OutStart , observed that ninety percent of mobile learning pilot projects he is aware of have failed. The part of the paper that resonated with me was the definition of the two contrasting approaches – a standard “tool view” approach vs. a sociotechnical approach.

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Mobile Authoring Tools: Hot Lava Mobile

The eLearning Coach

MICHAEL: It’s been available through OutStart since we acquired Hot Lava Software in June 2009. OutStart provides applications specifically for BlackBerry, iPhone, iTouch, iPad and Android devices (with others on the way). COACH: How long has Hot Lava Mobile been on the market? . Installed Application.

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The Pitfalls and Promises of Mobile Learning

Breakthrough eLearning

Firstly, unlike traditional eLearning, which relies on fairly common web standards to make things work correctly (no matter the learner’s computer operating system), there is a wide range of very different and distinct mobile operating systems. title="Atom feed">Site Feed

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mLearning Content Types - Level 5: Courseware

mLearning Trends

If a slide presentation is difficult to read on a standard computer monitor, it can certainly prove unreadable when viewed on a smaller mobile screen. The CellCast Server includes functionality for building mobile content using a standard web browser and popular desktop applications like Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

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LMSs, TMs and HCMs

eLearning 24-7

No offense to my colleagues who are OD (organizational development) folks, but the thought of having training under OD is nothing short of armageddon by training standards. They purchased Outstart, a LMS. Right now, there are training executives across the world screaming at such a statement. What about Kenexa? They are a HCM.

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My 2012 Enterprise mLearning Predictions Recap

mLearning Trends

Steve Jobs’ 2010 insistence that his company’s devices would rely on more “open standards” based on HTML5 and CSS over the then ubiquitous Flash standard proved both powerful and prophetic resulting in a slow but steady transition away the well established but dated comfort zone our industry had grown accustomed to. Near Bullseye.