Unsurprisingly, global enterprise’s interest in the iPad is growing and it is reported that a staggering 94 percent of the Fortune 500 companies are either testing or deploying the iPad. For most organisations, adopting mobile learning raises the BIG question of “What do we do with our existing content (probably developed in Flash which doesn’t run on the iPad)? 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. Watch this amazing video. MORE >>

Over the past year, RIM (now officially renamed BlackBerry in both name and core product) has transformed the company’s vision and strategy in the mobile computing market to dramatically transform both their product hardware and the underlying mobile device software with differentiated, next generation offerings that leverage past strengths as well as support future ones. Oh what a difference a few years makes, eh? popular four or five years ago. None of these facts was lost on RIM, their ecosystem or their investors for that matter. MORE >>

This project has five core principles: child ownership of devices; low ages as the target; saturation of whole schools; connected learning; and free and open source software. In ‘ OLPC laptop: Educational Revolution or Devolution ’ (2007) authors  Bastiaens and Carliner own survey revealed that before there could be any guarantees regarding the XOs potential to provide an education, a deployment program that includes planning around curriculum and evaluation needs to be developed. Full PDF with higher res figures can be downloaded  HERE ). Technology now allows anyone (ie. MORE >>

Try it for yourself and learn : if you have never developed an eLearning course: follow at least one full online course and if possible with a renowned institution or company. This will come in handy once you start developing your own courses. This in its turn will allow you to decide which type of eLearning activity should be developed (educational games for simulations, quizzes to check information assimilation, discussion forums for looking at in-depth understanding or group work…) 3. Develop your own content: try to limit the amount of content that is outsourced. MORE >>

hyperlinks subvert hierarchy (from the cluetrain.com manifesto) Moving from local to global We live in a less barriered world: self-publication, group forming across the world, unlimited information. So from a learning perspective our learning group grows (personal addition: this also means that the group that lives inside the personal zone of proximal development grows, as more people can potentially be in this). Now this search is done by computer data software), banking. These are my live blognotes. totally agree. Breaking down barriers Change is human. research. MORE >>