Augmented Reality and M-Learning
Let me pose this scenario: Every day, you walk down the same street. You walk past the buildings, see the crowds and yawn. But on this day, you decide to use your smartphone and look down on the...
View ArticleLMS Vendors: U Can Survive – Innovate, Invigorate and Invent
On 11-18-2010, I was part of an online panel discussing whether the LMS as we know it is dead and if not, what is the evolution of the LMS. In that discussion, each of us covered various avenues and...
View ArticleCustomer Complaints, How to Avoid the Traps
When it comes to the e-learning market, specifically the LMS space (and you can toss in LCMS, CMS, Learning Portals as well), there are a lot of traps that customers fall into and can’t get out....
View ArticleM-Learning 4 Tablets – Kinect, Touch Gesturing – It’s Coming.
I am preparing. They are circling. They have invested the money, the time, the energy. They assumed that the answer was in the palm of your hand. They marketed this device that millions upon millions...
View ArticleM-Learning: Where’s the app for that?
As I write on my iPad, thoughts swirl abound. With all these vendors talking about their solution and its capabilities on mobile devices, it should be easy to find an app for that. Regardless if the...
View ArticleEvolving the E-Learning Experience for the 21st Century
What always stuns me are vendors who state they know what their learners want, but in reality have no clue, because they themselves do not see the technology and its usage among the masses. 2011 A...
View ArticleHTML5 Fans Rejoice – Adobe Ditches Flash Player on Mobile Devices
Exciting news, I tell you. Especially for us fans of HTML5 who knew in our hearts of hearts that it was a superior product to Flash. Adobe announced today, Nov. 9th, that it is abandoning its work on...
View Article2011 LMS Award Winners plus a quick note on m-learning
Initially I was going to provide a list of all my award winners including web conferencing, stand alone mobile learning, etc., but after much consideration, decided this week to focus only on the LMS...
View ArticleCourse Authoring Tools for eLearning developers and features for the masses
Tools these days come in three flavors Geared toward e-learning developers and instructional designers Geared towards the masses A combination of both Authoring Tools for developers The biggest problem...
View Article#10 to #1 LMSs of 2012
Well here it is, the final countdown. Other final countdowns: Europe – great song, but really how many times can you listen to “it’s the final countdown” Movie starring Kirk Douglas, Charlie Sheen –...
View ArticleVideo Learning Platforms
Flashback 1976. VHS VCR comes home – literally if you bought one. Beta is better, but VHS wins. Beta player owners realize the game is up – and decide to cryogenically freeze players until the masses...
View ArticleASTD International trade show wrap up day 2
Back for another installment of the ASTD international trade show. In this amazing episode we find out that not all mobile devices are really mobile (according to a vendor), the new six letter word is...
View ArticleM-Learning Message Home
In 1982 or thereabouts a wonderful movie debuted. It was about this funny looking ET thing that ate Reese’s Pieces and hung out with some kids that were annoying and went on to have less than stellar...
View Article2014 Authoring Tools – State of Affairs
I’ve been reading a lot about the color green. What is symbolizes, what it means and what it represents. I found out that depending on the shade of green, can mean something totally different....
View ArticleMobile Mania – The Latest on M-Learning
Mobile the final frontier. These are the voyages of mobile learning. To seek out new devices. To boldly go where no e-learning vendor has gone before, specifically LMS vendors who are now starting to...
View ArticleR U Maximizing your M-Learning Experience?
I am a huge fan of Columbo (detective show starring the late Peter Falk). As such, a recent (okay from the early 70s) episode had a psychologist (murderer) on talking about control of words and how...
View ArticleASTD International trade show wrap up day 2
Back for another installment of the ASTD international trade show. In this amazing episode we find out that not all mobile devices are really mobile (according to a vendor), the new six letter word is...
View ArticleMobile Learning – Is it melting away?
The other day, I was listening to the classic 80’s tune, I Melt With You. While you can argue that the music video is lame, the song itself stays true and lasting. What you may ask does this have to...
View ArticleASTD International trade show wrap up day 2
Back for another installment of the ASTD international trade show. In this amazing episode we find out that not all mobile devices are really mobile (according to a vendor), the new six letter word is...
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