devices – each with tens of thousands of available apps – will help fuel continued adoption of Apple and Google-designed tablets in the learning space. It was no surprise to many of us that Facebook was the most heavily trafficked web site in 2010 and displaced Google for the first time in many years. Some form of consolidation will come to the mobile device/handset sector as a few of the key but descending players –namely Nokia, Microsoft, HP and RIM – aligning themselves together to try and overcome the momentum of the two ascending players – namely Apple and Google. MORE >>

mLearning platforms: you could use mobile podcast to keep people up to date. Webkit: apple, RIM (just bought a company which will make the new blackberry phones probably full webkit), google, Nokia, some of WebOS from Palm. Again blogging live, so excuse me for short sentences, mistypes. very intelligent and sharp minded man with glasses, with kind gestures to give energy to his words, mainly elaborating with iPhone examples. He will talk about strategy if you want to make native, or near to native applications. First: what role do these mobile phones play in your strategy? MORE >>

Some examples: Podcast/Vodcast: an audio or video file stored for later viewing/listening – TEDTalks and Motorbike Tips for New Riders examples Flash-based learning activity – New Practices in Flexible Learning examples Accessing a remote Learning Object: as above, but not stored on the mobile device itself, but at another location in “cyberspace” – a network server, a PC, or the Internet. Mobile Web Search: Google mobile is an example – provides mobile web search from a connected mobile phone or PDA SMS-based information service: these require a bit of preparation. the internet). MORE >>

That thought was eerily prophetic… for last week, Google annouced that they had bought photo-recognition software company Neven Vision , a company that produces a product called i-SCOUT, which they describe as a “visual Google&# : The image recognition algorithms can recognize anything from an ipod to a picture of the Mona Lisa to the flower in the above picture. Report: Sydney AUC iPhone SDK Workshop Video Recording and Streaming on ALL iPhones Google Goggles will rock m-learning. pre-packaged content for PDAs) will be photo-recognition. Ubiquette. MORE >>

Coach: What types of challenges do newer technologies, such as mobile and podcast, present to the instructional designer? Too often we take something like a podcast and present it as an hour long lecture. All great techniques to use for educational podcasts. Those are all great techniques we can use in podcasts to engage our learners. Alternatively, the product Google Wave is impressive. Students create blogs, contribute to wikis, record podcasts and participate in 3D virtual environments. In case you missed the first half, see Games and Simulations. MORE >>