Float explains the importance of Project Tin Can for mobile learning and the effects it will have on learning within organizations. Featured Newsletter David Metcalf eLearning Guild free webinar informal learning mLearnCon Pioneer Planting Rate Estimator Project Tin Can RabbleBrowser SCORM ubiquitous learning MORE >>

Here’s a great example of how a text message campaign can encourage supporters to become reporters – informing people about important developments right as they happen. new Pennsylvania law was recently passed that would require voters to show ID before voting. Working America is concerned that the law may have a negative effect on voter turnout, since 11% of Americans don’t have the kind of ID required by the law. And those without ID are likelier to be over the age of 65 or African-American, or to earn less than $35,000 annually. The text message campaign did three things. MORE >>

Of late, many of our clients have asked us to develop courses for deployment over PCs but which can also be viewed over the iPad. While the demand for HTML5 courses is yet to catch up, the demand is growing stronger nevertheless. This hardly comes as a surprise given that the iPad dominates the worldwide tablet market. As per data published by Good Technology in their Good Technology Device Activations Report | Q1 2012 , the iPad 2 averaged 17.7 percent of their enterprise activations in the first quarter of 2012 in the US. In just a month since its release, the iPad 3 snagged 4.3 Thanks! MORE >>

[link]. I’ve started using Twylah.com to compile all the links and stories I tweet and re-tweet – its a central curated space to see what I’ve found to be the best mLearning, PostPC, EduTech etc stories at any one time. Enjoy. Future mlearn mlearning twitter twylah MORE >>

In the past months I have had the pleasure to work on the idea of getting a generic Mobile Curriculum Framework structure built. One that would allow any institute, corporation, organization. to set up their own mobile learning curriculum for their own target audience or students. So I gladly share the first formal publication giving an overview of the mobile curriculum framework. For those interested you can find it here. The paper was presented during IST Africa in Tanzania. These two researchers have been setting up mobile projects across South Africa and beyond. MORE >>