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links for 2009-03-17 « Learn-Learn-Learn — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:30:45 +0000

[...] Starting Slowly with mLearning « eLearning Weekly some lessons learned regarding mobile learning (tags: mobilelearning) [...]

By: Jeff Goldman

Jeff Goldman — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:26:38 +0000

For people who do not have internet capability on their phone you can zip the course and make it available for download or e-mail it to users. This way they can download it to their PC and then load it to their phone. This will give them access wherever and whenever without the need of an Internet connection. The only catch is the course cannot communicate to an LMS.

FYI: Flash Lite works great for this approach. You can download an example of that I have made at http://www.minutebio.com.

By: Tracy Hamilton

Tracy Hamilton — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:17:19 +0000

Oh sure when you say it that way it all seems so simple. Thanks for the great info and ideas. I’m going to test it and myself out asap.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:58:42 +0000

Just don’t tell me you had a great idea – SMS ….

By: Jonathan Nalder

Jonathan Nalder — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:55:17 +0000

I’m with Matthew – much of the power of mLearning is in its simplicity and lack of clutter. Congrats on starting your mLearning journey and look forward to reading more. The device central tip was a new one for me so anything else you find please keep sharing.

By: Antonia Chan

Antonia Chan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:43:09 +0000

Right on BJ! I also can see mLearning as an additional resource to classes, instead of printouts that rest in shelves, wouldnt be more useful to provide main ideas in nuggets (memory cards type) that learners could access via cell phone when needed, thus,extending learning beyond classrooms and real performance?

By: Matthew Nehrling

Matthew Nehrling — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:46:53 +0000

You get it. There is way to much emphasis in the mLearning arena about trying to squish a regular CBT into the size of a phone. That is exactly the wrong approach. Good Job.

Matthew Nehrling
http://www.mlearning-world.com

By: Gary Hegenbart

Gary Hegenbart — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:48:57 +0000

BJ, great advice. You make it sound so simple, and I guess it is. mLearning is really just a subset of eLearning, so we already have most (if not all) of the skills we need to get started. Like any learning product, you have to design for your delivery platform.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:30:56 +0000

I learned a little more about the Mlearning world this past week at a conference in DC. Here are a couple of things I learned:

1) Entire courses developed in “Mlearn” fashion are happening in many arenas; more specifically in the military where training is needed and internet access is intermittent at best.
2) Mlearning also includes entire course delivery on portable thumb drives (in the age of internet delivery….who knew?)
3) This site was given as a way to test Mlearning compatibility: http://mr.dev.mobi

Thanks for your blog. Awesome as always.