as the next application platform got me thinking again about what corporate eLearning development will be like in five years. The recent article by Dion Hinchcliffe - Blogs, wikis, and Web 2.0 Actually, I'm not even that sure what it looks like today. I've seen the Content Authoring Research Report from the eLearningGuild that suggests what tools are being used in 2005 and it suggests that most content is being authored using fairly traditional tools such as Flash, PowerPoint, Dreamweaver, Captivate, Lectora. What's the bottom line? embedded based on other tools or add-ins. web 2.0, MORE >>

(Singapore, September 2012) – Corporations engage in hundreds of transactions and make various decisions everyday. MORE >>

MOOCs are a platform. MOOCs, regardless of underlying ideology, are essentially a platform. The options presented assume MOOCs-as-a-platform. The value of MOOCs may not be the MOOCs themselves, but rather the plethora of new innovations and added services that are developed when MOOCs are treated as a platform (I addressed this in 2011 in the race to platform education We can officially declare massive open online courses (MOOCs) as the higher education buzzword for 2012. I’ve captured numerous articles here on diigo. MORE >>

This is part 4: mLearning devices and platforms: What you need to know. The content created for a web app can be platform agnostic. Cons: • Platform specific, code is not easily transported to other devices/platforms. (We have created an 8-part comprehensive report containing a series of two-to-three page “briefs.” If you would like to see the collection in its entirety, click here.). The issue that halts enthusiasm for mLearning is the device wars. People want to know which device to use. iPhone and Android provide similar user experi-. ences. Native App. MORE >>

Across the full spectrum of education – primary, secondary, and higher – we are witnessing a race to develop platforms for content, learning, teaching, and evaluation. And the reason is simple: companies are in a landrush to create platforms that will tie together previously disconnected activities and tools. Numerous companies are eager to platform the educational sector, with Pearson being the lead runner to date. What a platform enables is very different; it enables the extension of a system. More on that in a bit. So that kind of doesn’t add up. MORE >>