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Mobile Learning and the Continuing Death of Flash. About a year ago, I wrote about the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash. I pointed to Scribd switching from Flash to HTML, and pointed to their CTO Jared Friedman saying: "We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash. Now any document can become a Web page.

" Yesterday, I saw what Rapid Intake is doing with their tools to allow authoring of Mobile Learning - what they call mLearning Studio. By way of background, Rapid Intake provides tools that allow you to very rapidly input content that is composed into courses. The mobile version allows you to compose mobile learning courses using the same authoring system. The look of the course is slightly different on the different form factors. But here's where it gets interesting... Rapid Intake's web player is Flash-based. The death of Flash is continuing. GMU/DAU Mobile Learning Workshop. Dans SEAsia: Information et Communication Technology Département TIC. Top 50 mLearning (Mobile Learning) Resources.

Disruptive Mobile Learning. mLearning devices and platforms: What you need to know. Quel tutorat pour le m-learning ? The top 10 reasons your mobile learning strategy will fail | Dawn of Learning. While the focus of this post is not specifically Apple or the iPad, it’s almost impossible to talk about successful mobile strategies without recognizing that the iPad has created a transitional moment for the Learning & Development world. The reasons why have been the subject of countless blog posts, but I think DreamWorks founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, in this video from TechCrunch, says it best: “[The iPad] it’s the first device that actually is a reflection of me – or us. It’s so revolutionary that it’s no longer about me adapting myself to somebody else’s set of programmings or the way in which a device is going to engage. It is the reverse. It is as though I’m looking in a mirror.”

I love this description because it encapsulates what should be the crux of any mobile learning strategy. We all know that old habits die hard, so here are 10 repeat offenders that could deliver a devastating blow to your mLearning strategy: 1. 2. Click here to enlarge 3. 4. 5. Click here to enlarge 6. 7. 8. How to get started with mobile learning | Bottom-Line Performance | mlearn | Scoop.it. (We have created an 8-part comprehensive report containing a series of two-to-three page “briefs.” This is part 8: Diving into mLearning: How to get started. If you would like to see the collection in its entirety, click here.) Think small and not huge when you do your first project. At mLearn, we heard stories from companies such as PwC, Abbott Pharmaceuticals, the Federal Bank of Chicago, and several others. 1. What does small mean??? • Small might mean a very simple solution to a narrow problem (e.g., nurses are having difficulty remembering access steps to an LMS.)

Planning and Implementing Questions Business objectives and instructional goals • Why mobile as opposed to some other distribution alternative? Stakeholders • Who cares about this project? Instructional strategies and implementation • Who will produce the content? Devices and technical specs • What devices are you supporting now? Our Bottom-Line advice? Getting Started Today With mLearning: Video Podcasting by Dave Mozealous. “Video Podcasting is something that you can start doing today to get involved in mobile development using your existing eLearning videos. No need to wait for any technologies that are years off, or spend more money investing in expensive delivery platforms. Get started on developing your first video Podcast today.” Video Podcasting is an easy way for you to target mobile learning platforms today using your existing eLearning videos.

Using your current software, you can take content that you already have and start delivering it to most of the current mobile platforms, including iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, and most other popular smart phone platforms. Editor’s Note: Parts of this article may not format well on smartphones and smaller mobile devices. We recommend viewing on larger screens. In this article, I’ll explain what a Podcast is, the elements in a typical Podcast, and the growth in popularity of this format. What is a Podcast? Figure 1. Figure 2. Mobile video basics Item. 10 ressources sur le mobile learning » Mobilité. Développer du contenu m-learning. Five Myths of Mobile Learning.

Mobile and Informal Learning: Trends for 2012 | mlearn | Scoop.it. M-learning et e-littératie. Dossiers et articles. Les téléphones intelligents et les tablettes ont opéré une percée foudroyante sur le créneau de la mobilité, renvoyant les ordinateurs portables jouer dans la catégorie des équipements fixes ou, à la rigueur, ponctuellement mobiles. Les acteurs éducatifs doivent donc désormais composer avec des apprenants hyper-connectés via leurs téléphones. On parle donc aujourd'hui de m-learning, qui désigne une utilisation raisonnée et croissante des appareils mobiles comme supports d'information, d'entraînement, d'échanges et même de production.

Mais ce n'est pas parce qu'on aime son smartphone ou sa tablette que l'on est prêt à l'utiliser comme support d'apprentissage. Certaines universités, parmi les plus liées au monde des TIC, l'ont expérimenté à leurs dépens. A l'extérieur des écoles et universités, les applications éducatives et culturelles se multiplient, et certaines ouvrent des perspectives stimulantes grâce au recours à la réalité augmentée et au jeu, notamment. 18 septembre 2011. Mobile learning for schools - a class without walls | Resource. Part of the old steelworks still stands near Parkwood academy, Sheffield. It's a reminder of the old factories and the newer industrial units that provide rich opportunities for year 7 students to study how the demise of manufacturing has affected their city. In a project entitled My Surroundings, students went out into their community, taking photographs, shooting films in their locality and making maps, using handheld and other mobile technologies.

It helped them to consider why, many years ago, Sheffield was built where it was. "Pupils looked at the positive and negative aspects of the steel industry and how things have changed since [the factories] closed," says Derryth Hope, Parkwood's vice-principal. The project comprised history and geography and led pupils to develop written and spoken language skills as they worked on presentations. Impressive improvement Jake Smithies, now 14, was among the first cohort of students to be taught using the new curriculum. Hard evidence. Top Mobile Learning Case Studies Studies Content for Thu.Jul 28, 2011. Mobile-learning. Dossiers et articles. Définition mobile learning.