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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. Technological effects are direct and immediate. Technological effects are indirect and rolled out over time. Ninety percent! Implementation is an event.

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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. Technological effects are direct and immediate. Technological effects are indirect and rolled out over time. Ninety percent! Implementation is an event.

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eLearning Startups - New Wave Coming

Tony Karrer

When you look back at 2000-2002, companies getting VC funding were folks like Outstart, Hyperwave, Infocast, Element K, Pathlore, Vuepoint, Knowledge Impact. What's interesting though is how many of these "smaller" opportunities have the ability through network effects to grow very large. Where are the analysts?

Vuepoint 101
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The Pitfalls and Promises of Mobile Learning

Breakthrough eLearning

He is able to access a knowledge database via his smartphone and successfully trouble-shoot the problem and fix it. Therefore, delivering a traditional “course” via smartphones is not practical or effective. A technician on a service call comes across an older model furnace with which he is not that familiar.

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My 2012 Enterprise mLearning Predictions Recap

mLearning Trends

We’ve seen training completion and knowledge retention rates in game-enabled learning environments increase anywhere from 200% to more than 900% meaning more people are actively engaged and better prepared to perform their jobs. Target Missed. Tier Ones like Oracle captured Tier Twos like Taleo to strengthen cloud and talent appeals alike.

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

Reviewed: Social networking services (corporate learning applications): To identify experts on a topic – most “knowledge” exists in the heads of employees; To reduce the time to find connections and answers to questions; extend relationships beyond traditional classroom instruction and e-learning courses. For knowledge management.