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Apple iPad: Who Is It Really For?

Upside Learning

A Google search on ‘Apple iPad’ throws up an excess of 30 million results! Clearly the Apple iPad has drawn much applause and an equal amount of criticism in the last few weeks. At Upside Learning we’ve been thinking about ways the Apple iPad can be useful for eLearning – especially in the workplace.

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Delivering iOS 15 Support from Day One

BigTinCan

I may be known for downloading the latest software updates, throwing them on my iPad, and asking our product team why our software isn’t working yet on this unreleased new operating system. I’m even more excited that our fantastic product team took up my challenge of providing day one support for this new operating system.

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Why You Should Consider Offering Audiobook Subscriptions to Your Employees

Avilar

Its app is also available on the Google Play and Apple App Store, catering to employees’ devices. This impacts their mental health, leading to burnout and low productivity. This way, they can better focus on work and retain their productivity. This allows the employees to easily find content related to their interests.

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Another Tablet Computer – Blackberry Playbook

Upside Learning

Now, they’ve gone ahead officially revealed the product and begun the marketing blitz. The Playbook comes with a camera, a fast processor that enables true multitasking and a fully featured browser. As a contrast to the Apple iPad, this browser supports Flash.

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Holiday Gift Guide for Instructional Designers and E-Learning Developers (2021)

Ashley Chiasson

Apple AirPods – I didn’t think I’d enjoy these as much as I do. They’re my go-to dog walking headphones, they’re super portable, they charge quickly and hold a charge for an extended period of time, and they don’t hurt my ears like the old corded Apple headphones did. Workspaces.

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Seven Ways to Use the iPad for Workplace Learning

Upside Learning

The lovers are typically Apple fan-boys who are crazy about anything Apple, so their devotion to any bit of technology that Steve Jobs throws into the market is taken for granted. On the other hand, Apple’s business practices aren’t the ones I find inspiring. Does it support multitasking?

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How Instructional Designers Can Cope with Continuous Partial Attention in "The Age of Distraction"

SHIFT eLearning

The term continuous partial attention was first used by Apple and Microsoft executive Linda Stone in 1990 to describe, in her own words, “post multitasking” behavior. It is also known as media multitasking, a term coined by Ulla Foehr in the 2006 Kaser Family Foundation report. The Phenomenon of Continuous Partial Attention.