As mentioned in one of our previous blog post s, “ A ‘Performance Support System’ or PSS refers to any system that improves worker productivity by providing on-the-job access to integrated information, advice and learning experiences.” Designing eLearning For iPads – Webinar Recording And… Mobile Learning mLearning Upside2Go 'Just yesterday we released the new version of Upside2Go , our revolutionary mLearning platform. ” A definition that describes Upside2Go to a T. add to its Information Component. ” We couldn’t agree more.

Once you know what sorts of users prefer what types of campaigns, you can start to design initiatives that resonate with their intended audiences. For example, Do Something designed a campaign that combined dancing and diabetes, to connect with the minority users who felt passionately about family health issues. All Posts Blog Mobile Resources and Research Use Cases 'How do you use your organization’s data to reach more members? Much ink has been spilled about how data mining can transform your organization’s outreach. Check out the highlights from the presentation below.

Once your manuscript is finalized and cleaned from any formatting, you can put in the suggested options provided by the Kindle publishing options from Amazon (put in bookmark toc at the table of contents so kindle users can use the ‘go to’ option, put in headings so you can integrate a table of contents, put in your pictures straight from a designated book folder, get your bullet lists straightened out, …). 'To be honest, I never anticipated the anxiousness I would feel pressing a publish button. First some realizations I got after publishing: Have a distribution/dissemination strategy.

The guide was designed to share the CDC’s insights into how to create effective outreach across social media – Facebook, Twitter, and SMS. We’ve even launched Mobile Commons for Health , a product designed to make it easy for health care providers to launch mobile campaigns of their own. All Posts Blog Mobile Resources and Research 'How do you craft health care messages that will inform your audience and change their behaviors? The CDC has written  a guide that can help you craft better texts. It turns out the CDC’s not only experts on global health. Learn More.

This post was originally published on the Campaign For America’s Health Centers’ blog. That’s why we at Mobile Commons have launched  Mobile Commons for Health , a service that’s designed to make it easy for healthcare providers such as community health centers to launch mobile health campaigns of your own. All Posts Blog health InspirationsThe campaign is a project of the National Association of Community Health Centers , an umbrella group that helps address the need of more than 9,000 community health centers across all 50 US states. Now there’s a solution.

Early this month we ran two webinars on “Designing eLearning for Pads (tablet)” A big thank you to all of you who were able to join us! A: mLearning or Mobile Learning is designed specifically for mobile devices, mostly for learners who are constantly on the move or do not have regular access to traditional learning methodologies. believe all the design consideration mentioned could be achieved using normal eLearning so why should a company look for mobile learning? We can build content, applications that are designed for the device and accessed from an LMS.

And we’ve created a specialized edition of our platform, Mobile Commons for Health , designed specifically for healthcare providers. All Posts Blog health Mobile Resources and Research Press Text Messages Why Mobile Commons15 million text messages are sent every minute. An article in the Atlantic Monthly suggests that more of those should be sent to our doctors and healthcare providers. All by the means of communication that have defined the rest of modern society for a decade. At Mobile Commons, we’ve been helping connect healthcare providers and their patients for years.

Title of her presentation is: Aligning migration with mobility: female immigrants using smart technologies for informal learning show the way What follows are my live blogging notes, based on the slides shared by Agnes. This can be used in future mobile learning designs. At the second day of the UNESCO's mLearning week , where Agnes Kukulska-Hulme from the Open University in the UK started the day with a very enlightening presentation bringing together the latest on mLearning pedagogies and focusing on a gender related project. So we need to tailor and look at specific situations.

The texts are designed to sync up with their chemotherapy schedules. The All Posts Blog health PressMobiHealthNews has a great article about our new Prost8Care Program this week. The program, developed in conjunction with pharmaceutical company Sanofi US and the Prostate Cancer Foundation , provides follow-up information for men who are in the later stages of prostate cancer. The article discusses how interested patients can access the program, and what it looks like from the inside: Patients will enroll via their doctors. Read the full MobiHealthNews article here.

The text messages are designed to increase patients’ involvement—and help reinforce the information provided by their professional health care teams. All Posts Blog Company News Customer News health Press Press ReleasesPROST8CARE Provides Free Support with Timed Text Messages That Coincide with Each Patient’s Chemotherapy Cycle. NEW YORK, NEW YORK (PRWEB) February 05, 2013. PROST8CARE provides information—created by a board of oncologists and oncology nurses in partnership with PCF—to help patients and their caregivers understand their course of therapy. About Mobile Commons.

The Mobile Commons for Health platform is designed to give healthcare organizations a simple and turnkey way to connect with patients and change behaviors. All Posts Awards Blog Company News Government health Our ProductsMobile Commons has been nominated for two Global Mobile Awards ! The Global Mobile Awards are one of the most prestigious awards in the mobile communications industry, and companies from around the world enter. Our healthcare product, Mobile Commons for Health , was nominated for Best Mobile Health Product or Service.

We have been talking a lot about iPads (by iPads we also imply other ‘tablets’) on our blog for the past couple of weeks. So when it came to presenting a learning session at the recently concluded, Europe’s leading workplace learning event, Learning Technologies 2013, the choice of topic was simple – Designing eLearning for iPads. Designing eLearning for tablets. And it’s for a reason. We also shared a list of tools that can help you in both these endeavors. Some of the broad topics I covered in my 30 minute talk were: Understanding Tablets. mEnabling your eLearning.

We talked about some of these tools in two of our previous blog posts, 5 Rapid Authoring Tools To Publish Courses For Your iPads and Converting ELearning To Tablet Learning: Cost-effective Solutions , but I have now put together a wider list of authoring tools that can both help you convert your legacy content and which can also be used to develop new, mEnabled content for delivery to iPads and tablets. You can use its authoring features and pre-designed layouts, themes and templates to create engaging and interactive content for tablet devices or smart phones. Adobe Edge Animate.

good starting point is our blog post – 5 Rapid Authoring Tools to Publish Courses For Your iPads – where we talk about some of the authoring tools that can be used to develop HTML5 courses for iPads. There are many more tools and they all do what you want them to do, but as Judy Unrein puts it in her blog post “ Publishes to HTML5? Buyer, Beware ”, – Any authoring tool and any output is only good if it serves your design, which serves the learning/business need. Not surprisingly, there is a plethora of rapid authoring tools available today that do this.

This will mean a whole new way of designing, developing and delivering materials, information and learning for iPads or tablets which we all will need to move very quickly towards. In one of our earlier blog posts, we talked about Converting eLearning to Tablet Learning: Cost-effective Solutions, and looked at how converting existing eLearning to Tablet Learning can be relatively easy. Visually, the display areas of tablets are similar to desktop PCs and therefore, from a design perspective, content repurposing is often quite simple. Watch this amazing video.

Tappestry is positioned as the first social network designed specifically for learning. Tappestry most closely resembles Twitter in that users have 140 characters or less to describe what they learned, be it a fact, a conference they attended, an article they read, or a blog entry they wrote. Twitter has opened up my knowledge base – as a strategist and designer it allows me to learn and draw inspiration from an incredibly diverse set of people and disciplines, as it is a communication tool that has been embedded into people lives. A review by Jessica Knox.

We’ve designed a series of solutions specifically targeted to organizations trying to create behavior change, inspire medication adherence, and save lives. All Posts Blog government healthAn article in the American Journal of Public Health documents how mobile health campaigns can reach undeserved populations with vital healthcare information. The article chronicles the development and execution of Text4Baby, a text initiative that provides pregnant and new mothers with nutrition and care information to help the development and birth of their children. According to the Journal.

Want to know more, contact Will Woods either through his twitter account @willwoods or his blog: [link] A nice extra, the iSpot project has resulted in an 8 year old girl finding and naming a newly found spider! For those interested in the development logic behind an ever growing, durable mobile project, the iSpot growth will be of interest. Especially as they share the choices they made and whether those were good or bad. There is also a link to the new Google mDesign recommendations. The iSpot team is now rolling out a worldwide mobile enabled project. How great is that?! science2.0

Responsive Design for Multiple Mobile Device Form Factors. Blogging from Your Mobile Phone. Several members of the Metrix Group team will be presenting at the eLated event on November 22nd. We have been working on individual professional development projects that have transformed our knowledge base in order to prepare for the increasing demand that we have from our clients for mobile learning projects. The topic we will be speaking about include: Performance Model for Digital Learning Consultant. Primer on Digital Learning. Mobile Application Management/Mobile Device Management.

We’d like to share what we presented because it encapsulates technologies that will impact/affect the future of mobile learning and learning in general, readers of this blog will probably find it of special interest. Being able to leverage this user generated content for a variety of learning application is something learning designers will need to master soon. Last week Amit and I made a small presentation to the Mobile Learning MOOC (MobiMOOC) about the possibilities in the future of mobile learning. You can find our presentation here. Ubiquitous and pervasive computing.

He then explains how the MTA’s Bus Time is designed for commuters who might not have the latest gadget. ’ And it’ll say 5 minutes, or 10 minutes, or [where] the nearest bus is … It’s designed for the kind of people who ride the bus and don’t have a smart phone.”. All Posts Blog Company News government media Press Use Cases Why Mobile CommonsLast week, WNYC’s radio show New Tech City focused on how New York is integrating new technologies into our city’s transit systems. We were delighted that they featured the MTA’s Bus Time. Hear the full audio below. Then

Why would I talk about a consumer device like the iPhone here at uLearning Blog? uLearning design iPhone reviewBasically because it sets a bar each year for how much advanced computing can be squeezed into a soon to become even more ubiquitous device. Smartphones are today’s PCs and give us an idea where tomorrow’s computing may be heading. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that we recently supported ASTD research on Mobile Learning , a report around that was released in May 2012. They made some very interesting points during the webinar which resonated with what we’ve been sharing on this blog. John agrees and highlights an emerging trend that companies are identifying use case for PCs, tablets, and mobiles separately to design and deliver appropriate content or information. ASTD conducted a free webinar on that research report this week. Manager, Learning Technology at Qualcomm).

Also contrast with a list of myths we posted on this blog a couple of years ago. Designers must consider the always on nature of phones which help capture the moment of creative learning and other such factors. The best way to think mobile learning is to think ‘augmentation’ of performance or learning itself – as Clark Quinn argues in his book – Designing mLearning: Tapping into the Mobile Revolution for Organizational Performance. When it comes to mobile learning myths and misconceptions abound. Here is a list of the more common ones I come across.

Tom Spiglanin blogs about his mLearnCon experience here. While there were several exhibitors and presenter focused around learning management, the one technical area that captured my imagination as a designer of instruction – The Tin Can API , this single major development coming from ADL. her blog – [link] ) She spoke about game mechanics to target behavioral change. Looking back at the learning games we’ve worked on, realized that our design needs to account more for the types of motivation and to leverage that in an appropriate manner for changes in behavior.

The contest is designed to put a fun spin on air quality awareness. All Posts Blog Calls to Action nonprofitA new contest is letting Pittsburgh residents use text messaging to guess the first clean air day of summer – and win prizes if they’re right, including a hot air balloon ride. Instead of just focusing on bad air days, why not celebrate the really good ones? According to the website. The winning date will be chosen as a day within the top 5% of air quality days for the past 4 years. People can enter the contest just be texting AIR to 877877.

The folks at Float asked me to write a blog post about [.]. Conferences 1871 Chicago games mobile experience design mobile games TechweekOn June 25th, I’ll be in Chicago speaking at the Float Mobile Learning Symposium as part of Techweek.

The campaign is designed to raise awareness about America’s teen pregnancy rate – the highest of any industrialized nation. Remember that week of high school when half the people in your class were carrying around an egg taped to a sack of flour to show them how hard being a parent was? Well, now DoSomething.org is offering a mobile version of the same idea – and this one talks back. Do Something is encouraging teens to sign up and challenge their friends with a Phone Baby for a day. Phone Baby can even have a conversation with users, responding to their texts with appropriate replies.

And the Girl Scouts of America is turning those phones into environmental action with a fun text campaign that’s designed to keep girls thinking green no matter where they are. All Posts Blog nonprofit Use CasesEven Girl Scouts have cell phones. To engage Girl Scouts in an environmental program, Girl Scouts Forever Green is sending weekly earth-friendly texts to all the scouts on its list. Some are thought-provoking facts. Some are calls to action, with ready-to-click hotlinks to websites like this one , where scouts can make their own PSAs.

“The National Cancer Institute is enlisting SMS for a far-reaching program targeting teens and young adults with messages designed to help them quit smoking.” Blog Company News government health Press Press Releases Success Stories Successes Text Messages Why Mobile CommonsLast month, as part of the launch of Mobile Commons for Health , we also debuted a new partnership with the National Cancer Institute to run their SmokefreeTXT campaign. The campaign – along with our new health care platform – generated some great attention from the press. ” -  Mobile Marketer.

While I haven’t blogged in a while, I continue trawling through my RSS feeds, seeing more and more references to mobile learning, mlearning, performance support, ‘just-in-time’ and so many other terms that make sense in that context. Seriously Mobile: A Community For Mobile Designers To Learn From Each Other. Mobile Learning Blog To Follow. Mobile learning is in the air, almost everyone realizes the potential, and some companies are now taking tentative first steps. Do note some of these link up to dated articles. Why You Need A Mobile Learning Strategy. Mobile Learning.

We’ve overhauled our site design to make our platform simpler for our customers to use. All Posts Blog Company News government health nonprofit Our Products Why Mobile CommonsWe’re announcing today a major step in our mission to make it easy for our customers to run their mobile campaigns. As of today, we are introducing an upgraded, simplified, and just plain better-looking version of the Mobile Commons platform. Read below for a few of our new features, as well as some screenshots of what the platform will look like. New Look and Feel. Navigation is improved.

Now there’s a nationwide smoking cessation service that’s designed for teens and young adults in the United States. All Posts Blog government health Use CasesWe’ve been seeing a lot recently how tremendously successful text messages are as a tool for helping smokers quit. Text message campaigns are used in cities like  New York  and Louisville, and  research shows  how effective it is – sometimes even  doubling quit rates. Smoking Cessation Messages over Mobile. What’s exciting about SmokefreeTXT is how responsive it is to individual users.

Smokers text in their target quit dates and receive encouragement, hints and reminders on a schedule that’s designed to provide the right words at the right time. All Posts Blog government health Use CasesHealth departments all across the country are trying to help people quit smoking. And the Louisville Metro Department of Health and Wellness is doing it by offering help wherever and whenever smokers need it – via text message. The best thing about the text messages? They’re individually timed.

And as a keynote they give the floor to Hans de Zwart (English blog) who is the innovation manager for global learning technologies with Shell. Participants will have opportunities to connect with peers and learn about new Moodle R&D trends and debate research ideas that could improve the design of Moodle in the future. Moodle is still going steady and leading the community based LMS world. love it, so I gladly send out the news for the upcoming Moodle research conference and Dutch MoodleMoot. It will be a great Moodle meeting moment. More Info URL: [link].

Adobe Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. Judy Unrein makes a very valid point in her blog post Publishes to HTML5 ? To quote Judy: Any authoring tool and any output is only good if it serves your design, which serves the learning/business need. Flawless publishing to HTML5 doesn’t do you any good if the tool isn’t capable of creating – and publishing – the interactivity you’ve designed. into HTML5 format.

The great thing about mobile is when you send messages, they’re designed to have an outcome,” Alpert said. All Posts Blog Company News health Press Product Tour Successes Text Messages Why Mobile CommonsToday our CEO, Jed Alpert, was featured in a Mashable piece about the power of SMS vaccine reminders. The article highlights how effective SMS reminders can be in getting parents to vaccinate their children – potentially saving thousands of lives. The program found that 43.6% of children and adolescents whose parents had received text reminders were vaccinated. That compared to 39.9%

Just text “cheeseburger” to the designated smart code and you’ll get back a text in seconds with a calorie count and relevant health information, such as “high in sodium.” All Posts Blog healthIf you walk into a dining hall run by Bon Appétit Management Company, you can find out exactly what you’re eating – just by sending a text. BAMCO, which runs college dining halls across the country, is giving students the power to manage their nutrition with an easy text service powered by Mobile Commons. Contemplating a cheeseburger?

We’ve shared some of our thinking on mobile learning through blogs posts in the recent past and thought it worthwhile to collect the information into a single booklet for you. This eBook called ‘Mobile Learning – A Quick Start Guide’ can help you understand when to use, how to design, develop and implement mLearning in a way that works for your organization. Ultimately, it will help you design and implement an mLearning strategy that works for your organization and delivers results. We have been saying it  over and over again – mobile learning is here to stay!

We've already recorded and published our first episode and I welcome the readers of this blog to subscribe to this series where we hope to share leading news stories and happenings across the world of mobile devices and apps in general and Training and Development initiatives in particular. For those who don't know him (and you should), RJ is an " Über " bright and insightful T-n-D professional, an avid blogger, a budding author, an app designer and one of the recognized talents in our growing industry. My name is RJ Jacquez and I am a Former Adobe Senior Evangelist.

Live blogging from the learning solutions conference (@LScon). The Art of Vision is a program specifically designed to help companies utilize unconventional wisdom and build a vision for their future. This keynote comes from Erik Wahl (from the Wahl Group ), who will focus on the Art of Vision. Sounds promising! This is what the short description said: As the landscape for business continues to change, a clear vision is the key to successfully navigating tomorrow’s uncharted waters. He speaks very motivational and engaging. the land of opportunity for this era.

The SFpark team designed and implemented a large pilot program under tight time constraints, demonstrating innovation within an area of the public realm that is often taken for granted. All Posts Blog Customer News government Success StoriesCongratulations to SFpark, which just won a Good Government Award from SPUR , an organization devoted to “good planning and good government in the San Francisco Bay Area.” ” The full awards citation reads: The SFpark team was chosen for its implementation of the groundbreaking smart parking management program.

Riders expect an immediate response and the data must be available 24/7, so we designed a highly responsive system that seamlessly works with the MTA’s infrastructure to provide bus location details via text to millions of New Yorkers.”. All Posts Blog government Press Press ReleasesMOBILE COMMONS POWERS TEXT MESSAGES FOR NEW MTA BUS TRACKER IN NEW YORK CITY. Riders Get Location of Next Bus in Real-Time Via Text . Mobile Commons’ innovative platform allows commuters to receive live GPS data regarding the location of their bus via text message.  About Mobile Commons.

Since that time, I have become more aware of other mobile learning initiatives in Canada, especially being part of the “Taking Ontario Mobile” (TOM) project at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU). Being Here is an updated version of my previous post: Blogs and Websites. The Mobile Learner – Rob de Lorenzo’s blog about mobile learning in the school system. In February 2011, I wrote a brief overview of the mobile learning industry in Canada. Rob is a vice-principal in Toronto. Mobile Syrup - mobile news and reviews for Canadians.

Earlier this month, at Salsa’s Community Conference in Washington, DC, I was fortunate to sit on a panel with Sarah Alexander from Food & Water Watch ( a Mobile Commons customer ) and Craig Zingerline from New Signature (the guys who designed the Mobile Commons website ). Blog Mobile Resources and Research nonprofitGloria Fong is one of Mobile Commons’ Account Managers, dedicated to helping our customers get the most out of mobile. On November 1st, she participated in a panel discussion at Salsa’s Community Conference. Here are some of the results of that panel.

In fact, like Brian Fling (expert in mobile design, so connect to his media to stay updated) mentioned on his blogpost on html5 anatomy : "if you know HTML , then chances are you’ll understand what’s new in HTML5 in under an hour." Take a look at these 6 free JavaScript books and tutorials from the read and write blog. feel that with the rise of html5 we see a rise in specialization in instructional design. Use html5 authoring tools Simply take a look at these html5 designer tools: Rapid Intake Mobile Studio (I really recommend this one, sooo easy!)

Martin Addison, writing in the online blog for  Training Journal , provides a cautionary tale on the adoption of mobile learning. Ported content across from e-learning, which wasn’t designed for a learner on-the-move. Was not designed for a small screen device. For example, learning navigation designed for a laptop screen was not easy to use on a BlackBerry or touchscreen device. Those of us who are supporters of mobile learning tend to look at all the great things it can do, and forget that we are at the very early stages of its use. Problems and Solutions

Prototyping – sure, I harped about it before on this blog ; but is very important to reiterate. Make your choice based on design and usability considerations, just remember proper integration with data is important. For example, if you have chosen to use multi-touch gestures as part of your interface design, this automatically eliminates devices that don’t support touch. Consider during design, the data is proprietary (mostly always is), confidential, of value to competitors, etc., They are good to consider when taking on that app development assignment.

slide2learn #edApp #iear #iPadEd #ADEANZ - uLearning Blog , June 6, 2011 Reformatting synchronous recordings like #Elluminate to publish them in #mobile formats - Ignatia Webs , June 30, 2011 More thoughts on iOS5: “Its the how not what” #slide2learn #ADEANZ #iPadEd #Post-PC - uLearning Blog , June 7, 2011 This article made me rethink using a tablet for video recording 10 top tips for shooting iPad #iPadEd #slide2learn - uLearning Blog , June 6, 2011 Should We Author mLearning on the iPad? The device better fits to me. VIDEO: Mobile-ize, Organize & Unionize!

is a pretty simple mobile tagging game, specifically designed for use in the gallery. If you are interested in interactive museum applications (mobile and others), be sure to link up with Nina Simon's blog called Museum2.0. mLearning started out to be a more formal, corporate and academic field. After its initial phase a lot of inspiring more thrilling applications started to take shape. One of the most intriguing and inspiring sectors to explore mobile implementations for increased knowledge creation are the museums. are providing. The J. The Gallery Tag! Gallery Tag! Crossover!

One of the purposes of this blog is to update the information in The Mobile Learning Edge. There is a lot more about HTML5 that is useful in this article, including the impact of the language for learners, instructional designers, and developers. Sometimes one of my colleagues or I will do it, and sometimes it comes from an external source.  Yael references my book, but adds a great list of authoring tools that support HTML5, some of which were not available when I wrote the manuscript in early 2010. Check it out if you want the latest on HTML5. How-to HTML5

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In last many months we have written a number of blog posts around mobile learning ranging from development tips, general examples, tips and tricks, etc. While the development platforms and tools are easy-to-use, using such tools to design effective learning solutions is another matter altogether. It requires a skill-set that includes instructional and media design competencies for mobile device, and interface & user experience design skills. Adds to complexity in terms of design and development. number of these posts can be found at this link. Weaknesses.

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 Smartphones First off, what we are designing is a content-based experience. One of the frequent design approaches for content-based smartphone apps is to remove the navigational controls from view so that the user can immerse themselves in the content while still having the controls available. you are going to support, but for more details on that, see these blog posts: [link] [link]. It's not a game.

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via Mobile Learning & the Evolution of Content Delivery | Mobile Learning Blog. Food for thought on a Friday afternoon: The pervasiveness of mobile devices is ushering in a new age of learning pedagogies, making us examine and question how knowledge is organized and interrelated. So how do we evolve our text to be delivered in a way that is suitable for consumption on a mobile device and specifically, for learning? By delivering learning content in small, consumable portions, mobile learning enables users to access material through a method of quick reading, reviewing and testing.

… [They must] creatively balance the demand for knowledge and information against the realities of changing content and instructional design, disappearing content expertise, disruptive technologies, demand for on-the-job proficiency and an increasingly dispersed workforce with less tolerance for off-the-job formal learning. Looking forward, Avey sees less traditional classroom-based learning as technologies allow us to tie even closer job performance with specific informational needs, for example via avatars and cloud computing.

I'll address that in another blog entry. More tightly focused content, well designed, is what you want. How long should a course be when building e-learning or m-learning (mobile learning)? This entry is on how to trim the fat to make our courses smaller (i.e. shorter). And that is my main point: regardless of the e-learning software or mobile learning software we are using, we need to trim the fat. Many course developers seem to believe they have to put everything they can possibly think of into the course thinking they are being extremely helpful. If not, don't include it.

You have a couple of options: Native Standalone App - Offline: With this option, the learner downloads the course directly from the app store/marketplace as a standalone app designed specifically for the mobile device you are using. This option requires that your mobile course is designed to run on your LMS (i.e. February 1, 2011 2:09 PM Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe To Posts Atom Posts Comments Atom Comments Blog Archive ▼ 2011 (2) ▼ February (1) Understanding Mobile Learning: 3 High-level Questi. Android). Awards.

Home About Knowledge Management System (KMS) Blog Home Content Course Digital Learning Education eLearning Grants Improve Learning Knowledge Management System Learning Management Systems Defining Mobile Learning Isn’t Enough Filed in Digital Learning , Education , eLearning 0 comments In a previous post, I blogged  out loud about my concern for misusing/overusing the term mobile learning, or mlearning.  In fact,  a recent post and nudging by Michael Barbour got me to start putting some thoughts down that I’ve been mulling over for a while.  What are your thoughts so far? 

Listen to their needs before you design your mobile learning program and you’ll get a lot further when you implement it. The second half of that definition is particularly important in the corporate world where effective use of time and money are tantamount to long term success; designing a mobile learning program that will fill in the blanks for your team but that doesn’t distract them from their jobs with useless or ill-timed information is key for the program to be valuable. You make some really important points. WordPress Admin

The Mobile Learning Edge Home About Contents Resources Apps & Content Assessment Associations Authoring Tools Bibliography Blogs Collaboration Conferences Consultants Content Creation Games & Sims Hardware Information Sources Learning Management Mentoring Presentation Skills Researchers Services Social Media Videoconferencing Buy the Book Reviews for The Mobile Learning Edge by Gary Woodill on November 15, 2010 The Mobile Learning Edge has been out for about a month and a half, and has received at least 7 online reviews. WordPress Admin

After their first full year on campus, class blogs are doing some remarkable things. Once you’ve mastered the basics of blog maintenance, you may be ready to incorporate more media, let students rate content, or consider a homepage overhaul to make your content easier to navigate. Join Kyle Dickson and Mike Wiggins for a revealing look at the some of the power under the hood of your WordPress blog. In the course of our session, we’ll refer to example blogs and support resources from the past year. with Kyle Dickson & Mike Wiggins • November 11, 2010.

UK-based VisionMobile has released a great infographic illustrating the journey of a mobile developer, from app design to monetization. That is because it is still complicated. As time progresses, I expect that new tools will be invented that will make the job easier. VisionMobile has other interesting reports and maps, as well as an atlas of the mobile industry listing over 1,100 players. In particular, take time to download the free report titled Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond. WordPress Admin

It has certainly been a "month of Sundays" since I last posted to this blog and I offer apologies for not sharing more throughout what has proved to be a very busy and productive summer and fall season. And as highlighted in previous posts to this blog, the basic communications features found on virtually every phone can be used to distribute a variety of mobile learning content types that enable anytime/anywhere learning for enterprise workers. Figure 1 1. Basic Communications. Training Delivery. Information Access. Social Networking. Content Creation.

m taking the liberty to reproduce those as they’ll interest the readers of this blog. In my experience I’ve found that these are principles that drive the design of mobile learning as well. If you are a business leader, part of L&D, a designer of learning or just plain interested in what mobile learning today is capable of, this makes an excellent read. A few weeks back we received Gary Woodill’s latest book ‘The Mobile Learning Edge’ ; after a few weeks of hanging around on my desk, I’ve found the time to read it.

Podcasts Videos News@Cisco SMS Twitter Facebook YouTube Flickr More -> How Stanford and Beijing first connected Marc Musgrove | 17 Oct 2010 227 0 Educause 2010 Proves Learning is (Going) Mobile Dimitris Haramoglis | 15 Oct 2010 421 0 Timeline of Social Media at Cisco John Earnhardt | 15 Oct 2010 1,611 0 Telenor Norway Deploys LTE with the Cisco ASR 5000 Andy Capener | 15 Oct 2010 464 0 Cisco Borderless Networks Demos at Interop New York Oct 20 and 21 Beth Dannemiller | 15 Oct 2010 963 0 More Posts > Welcome to the New Cisco Blogs! But Windows Moble 7 is missing other apps. My conclusion? 

Contact the instructional designers at QUOnline to explore your ideas! wiki Wikipedia workload Follow this blog Blogs We Follow QUOnline Tech News QU Online Tech News Categories Faculty Innovations Green Education Online Teaching Strategies Quinnipiac Initiatives Reviews Self-Regulated Learning Uncategorized Web 2.0 for Online Learning About this Blog © 2008 Copyright Digital Pedagog Brought to you By: www.SmashingMagazine.com In Partner with: www.WeFunction.com Subscribe. mLearning projects are just beginning to take off. Comments It‘s quite in here!

Modeled on popular one-day workshops such as WordCamp and WordCampEd, WordCampEDUCAUSE focuses on the popular open-source blogging application WordPress as a dynamic online platform for teaching and learning. In this workshop, attendees will enjoy varied and informative hands-on exercises exploring the design, use, and extensibility of WordPress. Some Example Blogs. ACU Blogs Support blog – nice blend of custom support content and WP.tv. Cornerstone Portal – connects 35 individual Cornerstone class blogs. Presentations

Instructional Design Fusions Skip to content Home About Archives ← QR Codes: Augmenting Augmented Reality Stickybits: Scan your mobile world for social learning Posted on September 28, 2010 by diannerees | Leave a comment In my last post , I described instructional strategies for using QR codes, particularly in augmented reality applications. But instructional designers are creative folks; let’s see if we can use these new features to create better learning applications. tools Zoho notebooks Theme: Coraline by Automattic Get a free blog at WordPress.com.

skip to main | skip to sidebar E-Learning Queen E-Learning Queen focuses on distance training and education, from instructional design to e-learning and mobile solutions, and pays attention to psychological, social, and cultural factors. However, being social networking, simulations, and augmented reality activities need to be designed with care as they can quickly devolve into unfocused activities that do not contribute to achieving learning goals. blogged ratings are in! Proud to be named one of OEDbs Top 100 Education Blogs. Who is the Queen? You are, dear reader.

Instructional Design Fusions Skip to content Home About Archives ← Exploratree: A Metacognition Tool QR Codes: Augmenting Augmented Reality Posted on September 26, 2010 by diannerees | 1 Comment QR code for this blog QR (Quick Response) codes are a type of data matrix barcode made up of a pattern of black squares on a white background, with larger squares at three corners. tools Zoho notebooks Theme: Coraline by Automattic Get a free blog at WordPress.com. The white border is part of the code. Free QR code generators can be used to generate QR code images.

The Mobile Learning Edge Home About Contents Resources Apps & Content Assessment Associations Authoring Tools Bibliography Blogs Collaboration Conferences Consultants Content Creation Games & Sims Hardware Information Sources Learning Management Mentoring Presentation Skills Researchers Services Social Media Videoconferencing Buy the Book The Mobile Learning Edge: Table of Contents by admin on September 17, 2010 It helps to know what a book is about by skimming the Table of Contents. Here is the TOC for The Mobile Learning Edge : 1. WordPress Admin

Where are the courses designed specifically for mobile learners – ie, learners that are mobile – and not just re-formatted for mobile devices. Wouldn’t it be great if your LMS had an app that helped your students do this, instead of half-baked blog and wiki tools?  Kahryn on The EdTech Survivalist, Jim Groom Linda Casey on For the One Millionth Time, This is NOT Online Learning… EduGeek Journal on Facebook Follow this blog ClustrMap + Badges Copyright © 2010 EduGeek Journal | Powered by WordPress. Why not make lectures more interactive? Web 3.0

Contrast that philosophy with a learner-centric pedagogical model in which learning activities are developed that use key affordances of the iPad: for example, designing activities where students annotate or complete worksheets or experiments using an app like Noterize ; or focusing on using mobile devices equipped with cameras to document science experiments or field trips using blogs, images, and video. To help ensure that teaching materials and activities are compatible with the iPads, teaching staff will also be receiving the devices. Aaargh. 

In true ninja fashion, I am going to put together a few different styles I’ve gone over in this blog, and I’m going to show you a way to use your mobile device to truly teach and learn. Using a previous post from this blog , you should be able to follow the instructions and add your twitter feed from your new account to your Blackboard Announcements as a permanent announcement. Please comment in the blog and let me know what you think! Shu Leave a Reply Copyright © 2010 Shu-NCrew.com | Matt Swanner - Raleigh Web Design. How is your digital kung fu?

The Updside Learning Solutions blog has three great articles on rapid prototyping for Mobile Learning applications. Part 2 explores the levels of fidelity and how to determine which level works for the mobile application design project. Part 1 covers the initial needs assessments and questions you should ask before beginning. Part 3 covers what to consider when choosing a prototyping tool. Education for the iPod Generation.

Design patterns like MVC-2, Delegate. Upsidelearning Blog -Read series on IPhone-User interface guidelines 1-3. iPhone User Interface Design. IPhone user interface design. Design patterns used in IPhone development. Reading The Core Application Design. Right now, everyone wants to develop applications for mobile devices and in particular for the iPhone, as it has changed the way we look at mobile devices. There is lots of material available about iPhone development on the web but very little about how to go about it. Event delegation model in core java.

There’s a pretty decent post over at the AppStorm blog, which has posted its reviews for the “ 30 Essential iPad Apps for Designers and Creatives “ Adobe Ideas 1.0 While I’m not a massive Apple fanboy, as a graphic designer who has extensively used Wacom graphics tablets for digital sketching and drawing, I can certainly see the advantages of doing freehand creative sketching and drawing using a device like the iPad.  The apps described in this article are great for designing charts, diagrams, graphics, illustrations, images… and more. 

Sushil Kokate has discussed this here on our blog listing the benefits you get from choosing to go with either of them. iWebKit is a file package designed to help you create your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad compatible website or web apps. We have written several posts related with tools and techniques for m-learning development on this blog which you may find interesting: Tools for m-learning development. Overall the mLearnCon workshop was well structured and had just the right balance of planning, design, & implementation information. Video. JQTouch. iWebKit.

The Mobile Learning Blog Home About Us Mobile Learning Glossary Sign Up For Free Effect of Mobile Learning on Student Behavior admin | July 28, 2010 | Mobile Learning •    Schoolboys who would never consider cracking open a book, are reading classic English literature. •    Number of pupils suspended for poor discipline and disruption, down from nearly a hundred to a handful. •    Kids who hate doing homework, get it out of the way on the bus ride home. Post mobile learning implementation, barely a handful of youngsters are removed from lessons for poor discipline and disrupting others.

Educational developers and instructional designers cannot (should not) commit themselves to merely one mode of delivery. Not coincidental with the writing of this blog post, Pearson has recently released Pearson LearningStudio Mobile Solution , a Web App that allows students to check grades and announcements, read and post to discussion forums, and have a dashboard-like view across all their courses in the process. Online Blogucation Subscribe via RSS Home About 28 Jul/10 1 The Future of Mobile Learning? Okay, well maybe not in the Kyzylart Pass of Tajikistan, but everywhere else.)

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Skip to content Follow: RSS Twitter JohnsBlog John Millner's MAODE blog Home About Archive Can time really be managed? They] can support the design of learning experiences that cross spatial, temporal and conceptual boundaries, and interweave with the learner’s everyday life and into her web of personal knowledge, interests and learning needs. Leave a Reply Author John Millner johnmill @ gmail dot com Recent Posts Student use of blogs and mobiles The architecture of learning design Networks, power-laws and mycorrhizae PLEs and VLEs Learning 3.0 13–35.

In his presentation , he emphasized that the social and economic status of a community or the target should always be considered in the design of training , development of software and selection of technologies that are appropriate to deliver the training. tried to use it, yet found old way of using gmail is better.Google Team also in their blog writes sameUsers did not adapt. The session was chaired by Richard Niyonkuru,M & E Advisor for ICT ,Ministry of Education ,Rwanda. Can these really drive student performance? Mobile phone text messages received from lecturers; 3.

The document is divided into two parts: Planning Your iPhone Software Product : Covers types of applications, fundamental human interface design principles and the iPhone OS environment. Designing the User Interface of Your iPhone Application: Covers available components to develop IPhone application interfaces. This blog post intends to summarize both parts in separate posts. Fundamental human interface design principles. IPhone OS environment : Screen size is compact: It is a challenge to design an interface for small screen size. This is the first. Folders.

The workshop was well designed and gave a wide range of information along with templates and charts that could be useful for the beginners and the slightly more experienced professionals in the field. We have discussed this on your blog here. Last week I attended a day-long certificate workshop at the inaugural mLearnCon in San Diego titled Creating a successful m-learning strategy: From Planning to Implementation conducted by Judy Brown ,  Rovy Branon , Jason Haag , and Chris Raasch. Ray Kurzweil, Futurist (at Handheld Learning ’09). networked device. GPS enabled. live TV.

Jenise Cook Ridge View Media | Sharing thoughts on learning, design, social media, and stuff « Instructional Design: Method & Media on Twitter mLearnCon 2010: Richard Clark – Surviving without Flash » mLearnCon 2010: Dr. Mimi Ito – What the User Wants in mLearning Live Blogging Wednesday’s Keynote I really respect Cammy Bean and others who live blog the conferences they attend. So, here’s the “raw&# live blogged post from Wednesday’s Keynote Speaker. Thanks! Typical is two of each device. Social viewing.

Misconceptions- It is device dependent- again, not necessarily, unless the subject matter, and learning design demand specialized features e.g Your educational, and learning partner will invest in learning design research, technology research, and invest in infrastructure after having studied the state of the market, and therefore you would not have to worry about it (they would also think about coverage by a mobile operator when considering solutions)! Standards in question are Content Design ( Instructional and Visual) standards - Flash does not work on iphones.

The afternoon part of the workshop was hands-on (difficult to blog as my hands try to get going with all the provided guidelines). design before development: needs to be VERY clear, because you want a clear design before asking the developers to go ahead with it. ask weblink to Silke or Eric, for they have example links) user interface guidelines (ready mades available) you can make everything you want to design (icon, menu design, widgets, activity and task. Currently in San Diego for the mLearnCon conference , the first one! Organized by the eLearning Guild.

As a result, our design and development teams have spent the first half of the year improving our core applications, device experiences and the underlying platform our customer and partners need to make mobile learning a reality for their own employees and customers. For now, here's a short summary of what our blog follows can look forward to learning about in future posts. Our next blog post will highlight some of the new CellCast Widget improvements and devices we now support. And somehow we've completed three years worth of effort in a six month time frame (once again!)

DigitalOvers.net Digital life over the Net Blog About Privacy Policy Archives « Streaming software expert BestTV provides internet TV platform for eLearning channels Significance Of Multimedia In Elearning » mLearning Is the New Custom eLearning Published on June 4, 2010 in E Learning. For example, an application designed to run on Apple products that helps the user identify plants and offers care instructions is actually an m-learning teaching tool, though most users may not think about the fact that they are really learning.  Though technologyâ??s 0.860 seconds.

Mobile Behavior: an Omnicom Group Company Home People Blog Work Events Press About Us May 12, 2010 by Caleb Embracing Mobile To Educate For Tomorrow The classroom was traditionally a controlled environment; when wireless technology began to invade, skewing the rules of time and space, teachers panicked. Schools are slowly beginning to realize that the future lies in mobile communication and utility; instead of building resistance, they are opting to design curricula supporting it, preparing todays youth for a designed tomorrow. The solution lies in perspective. At  St.

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Jenise Cook Ridge View Media | Sharing thoughts on learning, design, social media, and stuff « How to Estimate Training Time and Costs Online Social Networking and the Death of a Blogger » My New iPad for Mobile Learning and Beyond! As I began to play with its features, my e-learning design and development brain just couldn’t wrap itself around the iPod Touch’s very small screen. That will change as I learn to design for small mobile devices.) As my iPad and I get to know each other better, I’ll share more in future blog posts.

And because most of them are learning professionals (Instructional designers and trainers), they have a great understanding of how to build and deploy a training program. I’m very interested in the idea of mobile video blogging. This is nothing new, but I think what is needed (and maybe it’s out there and I just haven’t found it yet) is a mobile video blogging tool for learning professionals to create content for mobile devices. annotate each content item with the associated objectives (for designer reference purposes and student purposes).

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Without the Flash player, designing in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, you have to be sure that what you create works in every browser. This is not only due to the benefit that Flash can play the same content the same way in almost all browsers, but also because Flash has been designed from the ground up for interactivity. In the meantime, at Rapid Intake we are monitoring these developments closely and are prepared to leverage our "data layer" design to move content to other consumption models, including mobile devices. There are really three questions to discuss here: 1.

Home People Blogs Chalkface Projects Publications Multimedia Research Events Services Contact Pontydysgu – Bridge to Learning Home Blogs Wales Wide Web Working & Learning My Learning Journey Anges Blog Jos Blog Dialogos PARADYGMAT 2.0 GoogleTranslate Service The use of mobile devices for learning and the importance of context May 4th, 2010 by Graham Attwell The next in what will, I suspect, be a series of short posts from the Mature project meeting in Barcelona. Yet exploring and extending our understanding of the nature of context has proved challenging.

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