The new web-based HTML5 authoring package looks and performs quite well and delivers an impressive array of authoring features that can produce exceptionally nice looking mobile content for the various web kit-based mobile devices and tablets including Apple’s iPad and the full range of Android-based tablets. Published modules are packaged as SCORM objects and deployed with nominal hiccups for local/disconnected playback via an installed CellCast application on our test iPhones, iPads and Android devices. This first post will focus on LS2011 and I’ll post again on CTIA tomorrow. MORE >>

An increasing number of initiatives – some large-scale, some small – are using mobile technologies to distribute educational materials, support reading, and enable peer-to-peer learning and remote tutoring through social networking services. million handsets, with active readers in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Ghana, to name a few. Reading on a mobile device is different to reading in print. Mobile devices offer interactivity, the ability for readers to comment on content, the ability to connect with other readers and to publicly ask questions and receive support. MORE >>

What services will help learners be more productive? What content is already on hand that could be made easier to access via mobile devices? What actions/activities will need to be tracked? We believe there are 3 ways to use mobile devices in workplace learning. Mobile learning is in the air. It’s the buzz word in training these days and you can’t escape all the noise surrounding it. At Upside Learning, we have been doing a fair bit of mobile learning for more than two years now. Recently we released an innovative mobile learning platform – Upside2Go. don’t. MORE >>

Taking the trends I’ve mentioned before, and the huge increase in persistent internet connection personal computing devices, I feel there need likely be three key themes around which the features would coalesce. Second, providing an easy to use interface with clear push/pull/sync of user-generated content to individual devices. services, we see that there is scope for slowly bringing in Web 3.0 An element such as user might contain data like: learner preferences, history of learning activities, learner behavior, certification data, etc. technologies. MORE >>

I keep reading and hearing more and more about how location and location based services will be the the next big wave in mobility. Many devices already come equipped with GPS antennas and others are able to approximate the user’s current location through triangulation (measuring distance by calculating signal strength from multiple cell towers or WiFi hot spots). There are already a number of training examples involving learner location and mobile devices. The trends point to a market filled with location aware devices in the next few years. MORE >>