From the standpoint of a magazine that’s always talking and writing about the latest trends in corporate learning/training, it came as a bit of a surprise to us when we tallied the results of this year’s survey of readers. You would think that social learning (of which mobile learning or m-learning is a part) would be the number one choice…

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During John Moxley’s webinar on how he created mobile learning at Cricket Communications, I mentioned some statistics that I uncovered on mobile device usage while preparing for a recent article that I wrote for our magazine.  We had several people send us emails asking for those statistics so that they could incorporate them into their mobile learning strategies.  The statistics…

Categories: e-learning, Joe DiDonato, Mobile | Tags: e learning > ELS 2013 > Joe DiDonato > m-learning > mLearning > mobile learning

Meet Alan Todd – one of the brightest people I’ve ever met, and if you attended ELCE 2011, you know that the world of LMS owes a lot of their success to his efforts.  When he sat a panel discussion with Bobby Yazdani from Saba, and Frank Russell formerly the CEO of GeoLearning, we had the three innovators all in…

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As social media gain a stronger foothold in the learning process, more learners are starting to create their own learning content. During a recent open Twitter discussion at http://lrnchat.com, learning professionals observed how this phenomenon is indeed evolving. Some of the more interesting answers to the question, “How can learners make their own learning content?”: >> Learners can make YouTube…

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There is no question that telework (working at home using cutting-edge communications technology) and e-learning are symbiotic. E-learning makes telework more effective; telework supports e-learning initiatives for a geographically dispersed audience. So earlier this week, an edict by CEO Marissa Mayer that orders all her Yahoo employees back into the office on a regular basis took the business and technology…

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For some e-learning applications, micro-learning is fast catching on, particularly in the corporate world. Simply put, it’s learning in small steps—which is not only compatible but symbiotic with traditional e-learning. “It’s when companies create narrow groups of courses or topics, like teaching about copyright protection instead of business law, or covering a subject for a limited time, or using only…

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