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January 23, 2007
The Year of Mobile Learning?
I gave an overview of the European mobile learning outlook to Ellliott Masies Extreme Learning workshop last week in which I highlighted the role of mobile phone based performance support through RSS feeds, access to corporate/job reference content, and the use of SMS/email messaging to quickly assess team knowledge and help reinforce key information. I also described the value and use of learning content on mobiles for those moments of when one finds a few minutes to explore and learn what they want and/or need, where ever they are. This has been described for years as a key benefit for mobile learning but I think we will actually see it happen more broadly to solve specific needs now that tools to create mobile content have become more powerful, easy to use and prevalent while the phones and networks have become more robust.
It turns out I'm not alone in my predictions, Elliott summarized my comments by saying he thinks this is the year of Mobile Learning on phones, and now I see that Jay Cross has predicted that he thinks it is the year of Mobile and Virtual Worlds in a press release by Learning Light (you will be able to read Quick Guides on mobile learning, RSS, Podcasting and more I wrote for Learning Light on their Members area as well as resources from Jay).
Meanwhile, we have the Learning Technologies conference next week in which I'll be speaking on Mobile, Web 2.0 Enterprise Applicatoins and Virtual Worlds. There are several more suppliers positioning mobile tools this year, from friends at Saffron Interactive discussing voice based solutions to partners Datmedia showcasing streaming mobile video and Giunti Labs with Interactive SCORM trackable content production and management. There are also three articles in Learning Technologies magazine alone on Mobile Learning, a first!
Of course, we will continue to strive for and deliver thought leadership on the applications, value and best in class tools for mobile performance solutions through research, consulting, writing and our Seriously Mobile series of Summits and workshops (2007 schedule will be announced shortly).
Posted by Ron Edwards at January 23, 2007 08:30 AM
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