Recently we’ve made the UpsideLMS compatible to mobile devices and also launched a new version – UpsideLMS Version 4.0. While ensuring compliance, we encountered some interesting issues in the implementation of SCORM and found very little help online about implementing SCORM for mobile devices. Mobile devices have limitations: - Screen size. Mobile browsers now almost fully support JavaScript and this makes it possible to implement SCORM using JS support. For identifying devices we used the information in request headers. MORE >>

A little comic relief concerning mobile devices: Tags: cell_phone digital culture rants MORE >>

A RT from Tim Martin at the Elearning Guild brought my attention to a blog posting by Wesley Fryer at Stormchasers about his use of Google Presentation -- part of the free cloud-based Google Docs service -- as a means of distributing mobile learning content to his ecosystem. Once you've defined your slides, you can publish and distribute to your audience -- both to online users as well as (select) mobile users -- by simply distributing the URL for your presentation. NOTE: While I didn't test it on a Palm Pre, I'd expect it works better there (similar to an Android device)]. MORE >>

When designing a course for mobile devices we have to make a fundamental decision: are we going to design the course for both smartphones or tablets.or WATCH THE VIDEO Try this sample mobile learning course yourself on a mobile device (iOS, Android 2.2 or higher, Blackberry 6 or higher) Tablets Tablets afford us so much more room on the screen, we should try to take advantage of it. Try this sample mobile learning course yourself on a mobile device (iOS, Android 2.2 Apple iOS, Google Android, Blackberry, etc.) MORE >>

Here on the last day of the year, I offer my predications for the big and shaping trends we’ll see in the enterprise mobile learning space for 2012. As in the past, this year’s list includes predictions across a gamut of new technologies, consumer/buyer trends plus a few anticipated seismic shifts in the world of business that should collectively reshape the landscape for the adoption and accelerated growth of mobile learning for businesses. Mobile Learning Goes Mainstream. and will simply state “we need to offer learning to our workers via their omnipresent mobiles!” MORE >>