With course development and course team members, we make too many assumptions, building resentment and creating conflict. .  . If we don't communicate what we need, how will those  around us know what to do?  . As of this year, my wife and I have been married eleven years, and we have 3 kids, ages 10,8, and 6. Suffice it to say,  we have some conflict everyday. The daily grind of work, house, school, kids, and a dog create family issues. life we appreciate, however, many of those issues revolve around poor communication, just as we discussed in last week's article on SME/ISD tensions.  . MORE >>

Are you using any tools for mobile learning development or deployment that are not listed on this new listing? Tags: tools development mobile learning In January I posted a listing of tools for mobile learning and received some great comments. Thank you) Now I am working on presentations and workshops for upcoming conferences this Fall and Winter and have been updating a much longer listing. know that there are several missing in the content and K-12 areas, but what else? If so, please leave a comment below. Thank you in advance. MORE >>

These days I don't seem to find much time to develop actual mobile learning other than to create examples when testing various tools, but I do like to read Tom Kuhlmann's rapid e-Learning blog on development. This week his excellent description of push and pull e-learning fits right into mobile learning development. Tags: example blog development design By changing the way you structure the information, you can quickly build the framework for more engaging and interactive courses. It’s just a matter of rethinking how you approach the course design. MORE >>

to really engage in meaningful education through mobile devices (if such is possible), all the while allowing both local (not localized) and really contextual pedagogies (based on pedagogies that are meaningful within the culture in which education will take place) to be developed, leading towards meaningful education through the use of mobile devices (or any ubiquitous technologies). The video below is provided by the University of Kwazulu-Natal , the recording can be downloaded from their seminar website here. and so on. MORE >>

Thanks to Ellen Trude (blogging in German) , I got hold of this 38 minute video on mobile phone use in developing countries (focusing in this video on the sub-Saharan part of Africa). Some interesting facts from the movie: Developing world uses 59% of the cell phones in comparison to 41% in the developed world. There is a ubiquity to using mobile phones and if the users are more aware of this the applications that are developed will be more tailored to the user’s needs also. If you are into mobile applications, this is worth watching. MORE >>