In case you didn't know, mLearning World is on Facebook.Click here to join our Facebook group. mlearning m-learning mobile-learning mobile+learning podcasting iphone apple web+2.0 learing+2.0 eLearningEducation for the iPod Generation Read Full Story
iLearning: Elementary, high school students use Apple devices in IDEA pilot program HALLSVILLE — Fourteen-year-old Amy Myers does not own an Apple iPhone, but she knows how to work one. Depending on the results of a Hallsville Independent School District pilot program, she might soon get a similar device to aid her education.Amy is one of about 65 Hallsville High School students and four elementary classes participating in the IDEA (Innovative Devices for Educational Assistance) Pilot... Read Full Story
In part one we looked at how computing may just become a service utility in the same sense as electricity or water, and be accessible anywhere via wireless technologies. Not accessible on a desktop PC you can’t lug anywhere. And available to devices that don’t have the processing power of decent laptops. But is this what we see happening around us? There are at least two ways in which I believe you can see the beginnings of this happening - all of them outside the corporate, big server IT... Read Full Story
Training Top 125 2008: Winners Congrats to my team, ranked 38- and in the top 125 for eight years in a row! For the seventh year in a row, Training tackled the task of ranking the top companies of employer-sponsored workforce training and development. Each Top 125 company was measured on quantitative (75 percent to total score) and qualitative (25 percent to total score) data.What factors influenced the rankings? Training tied to business objectives. Number of trainers. Employee turnover... Read Full Story
by Jonathan Nalder mLearnxyz.net So what does mobile learning have to do with ‘cloud computing’? And just what is ‘cloud computing’? Anyone who has been into tech for even 10 years will remember the big step it was to buy that first PC. Mine was via my parents in 1988 - the screen was CGA with wait for it - 3 colours! It cost over $2500 at the time. So did our next PC - a 386. So did the next, a Pentium IV. My latest machine, a Macbook Pro also cost just over this same $2500 line. What’s... Read Full Story
The 360 mLearning report from the eLearning Guild is now available to download.Unfortunately, I was unable to get the OK to release the two case studies I had prepared for the report in time for the publication, however, there are two excellent case studies included with this report: Case Study: Integrating m-Learning with a Learning Management SystemTristan Evans, president of Perago Learning Solutions, Inc., explains how his company integrated m-Learning with a Learning Management System... Read Full Story
For my first cross-post from the mLearnxyz blog, I'd like to zoom right back to my frontline: Tullawong State School, Caboolture. This is the second year in a row we have run a unit using the free Ninepoll survey program on our Palm Z22's. Year 7 students with learning difficulties are required to brainstorm different survey ideas before writing them out with A,B,C and D answer options. They then enter these into Ninepoll and check their spelling and punctuation. Next up students rehearse... Read Full Story
It's time to register for Learning 2007 Dear Learning & Training Colleagues: You are invited! Learning 2007 is the annual global gathering of learning professionals focused on Learning Changes! Changing Learning Content: Faster, Shorter, View/Listen, Collaborative, Search Changing Learners: Impatient, Overwhelmed, Self-Service, New & Retiring Changing Learning Systems: Evolving LMS, LCMS, Authoring, Social Networks Changing Learning Issues: Governance, Talent, Assessment, Compliance... Read Full Story
It's time to register for Learning 2007 Dear Learning & Training Colleagues: You are invited! Learning 2007 is the annual global gathering of learning professionals focused on Learning Changes! Changing Learning Content: Faster, Shorter, View/Listen, Collaborative, Search Changing Learners: Impatient, Overwhelmed, Self-Service, New & Retiring Changing Learning Systems: Evolving LMS, LCMS, Authoring, Social Networks Changing Learning Issues: Governance, Talent, Assessment, Compliance... Read Full Story
It's time to register for Learning 2007 Dear Learning & Training Colleagues: You are invited! Learning 2007 is the annual global gathering of learning professionals focused on Learning Changes! Changing Learning Content: Faster, Shorter, View/Listen, Collaborative, Search Changing Learners: Impatient, Overwhelmed, Self-Service, New & Retiring Changing Learning Systems: Evolving LMS, LCMS, Authoring, Social Networks Changing Learning Issues: Governance, Talent, Assessment, Compliance... Read Full Story
