Our team has been involved in mobile learning for enterprise customers for almost a decade now on devices spanning basic feature phones in the beginning (think old Nokia handsets with voice only service) through simple smartphone devices (remember Windows Mobile?) The core functionality of our new BB10 app is virtually identical feature-wise to all our other native smartphone, tablet and eBook reader apps in other popular App stores but what sets this new app apart from its siblings is the “wow factor” users gain from BlackBerry’s new Cascades-based development environment and interface. MORE >>

Search for everything we need just in time, - finding locations/directions instantly, - news, ebooks, sports updates, - social networking, facebook, twitter, - banking & shopping, - face time / video calls. Smartphones showed a massive 63% growth in 2011, to overtake PC sales for the first time in history – Canalys. And in a few years the number of smartphones will dwarf the number of PCs. It’s already true for some developing countries like India, where a majority of people access internet from mobiles only. Doing More With Less. Growing Mobile Workforce. MORE >>

Mobile Learning and Social Networking each attained much higher hype levels across the Training & Development during the 2010 “season” and both concepts were featured topics in articles and conference sessions alike. From a content perspective, these new tablets take smartphone-oriented mobile learning and give it a better user experience plus they enable new and compelling long-form content types like readable PDFs as well as far more flexible ePUBs/eBook-style documents. A.K.A. How our January 2010 Predictions Played Out! Validated (“Double”). Validated (“Triple”). MORE >>

Overall interest in enterprise mobile learning definitely accelerated in 2012 with various surveys reporting that more than a simple majority of Learning and Development teams are committed to identifying ways to implement mobile learning for their workers and perhaps even customers as soon as practical in their organizations. For enterprise mobile learning to be considered a “bullseye” and truly mainstream, the level of adoption will needs to be measured in wide scale usage not just varying levels of investigation, pilots and strategy development. On Target But. Hit & A Miss. MORE >>

Nicky Hockly The Consultants-E June 2010 E-Moderation | activities , advice , android , apps , EFL , elearning , ESL , handheld , ideas , iphone , m-learning , mlearning , mobile , smartphone , tips Mobile Learning #5: A Case Study Comments (1) By Nicky Hockly , June 1, 2010 12:34 pm [Or: Mobile learning in your high school] Imagine you are the principal of a high school in the USA. She reads daily digests of e-mails from the five online professional development discussion groups belongs to. has brought us many varied and wonderful opportunities for professional development. MORE >>