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The eLearning Guild’s next Online Forum taking place on June 4th & 5th is called Lights, Camera, Action: Using Media to Engage the Learner.
Here’s what the Forum will cover:
It wasn’t long ago that e-Learning developers thought that putting a simple Flash animation and a small sound file into their e-Learning offerings was really [...]

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According to a recent Forrester report, enterprises are making smartphones and mobile applications (including m-learning) a priority, and formalizing or executing a mobile strategy is a priority for 49% of North American and European enterprises.
Figure 1 A Snapshot Of Enterprise Mobility Today (after Forrester Inc., 2008)
The ubiquity of mobile devices ensures that [...]

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Before I investigate developing learning content for mobile devices I think it will be useful to conclude my current “list-mania” by describing m-learning in education generally. So, today’s post outlines some of the ways m-learning is being used.
Low-cost mass learning. The mobile phone is the only information device available to citizens in many parts [...]

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The Irish calendar does not observe the typical astronomical seasons (beginning, in the Northern Hemisphere, on the equinoxes and solstices), or the meteorological seasons (beginning on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1), but rather centers the seasons around the solstices and equinoxes (so that, for instance, midsummer falls on the summer solstice), [...]

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