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Brandon Hall have released a comprehensive guide called Authoring Tool KnowledgeBase 2009 A Buyer’s Guide to the Best E-Learning Content Development Applications

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Today’s post returns to the altogether more prosaic task of identifying the characteristics of m-learning. I think that the best way to approach this is to characterize m-learning’s parent domain, e-learning.

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I started to investigate the characteristics of mobile learning by going back to basics, specifically looking at the foundations this domain: training, instruction, education and learning. Today, I’m going to begin in earnest by telling you a story about a book – a wholly remarkable book in fact, that was first conceived nearly forty years ago.

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Back in August I reviewed an application called Cooliris (formerly PicLens). In concluding my review, I said that
…this tool is exciting, [and] exhibits great potential, but needs a little work to get it past the finish line. Having said that, I can easily see it being a common part of the web experience in [...]

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Back in August I reviewed an application called Cooliris (formerly PicLens). In concluding my review, I said that
…this tool is exciting, [and] exhibits great potential, but needs a little work to get it past the finish line. Having said that, I can easily see it being a common part of the web experience in [...]

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In concluding this part of the E-Learning Curve Blog’s series on Knowledge Work, I will describe the final characteristics that define a knowledge economy.
Systems of creation, production and distribution
The commonly-held notion that a knowledge economy is a services economy is misleading. As information and knowledge add value to basic products manufacturing and services are [...]

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In concluding this part of the E-Learning Curve Blog’s series on Knowledge Work, I will describe the final characteristics that define a knowledge economy.
Systems of creation, production and distribution
The commonly-held notion that a knowledge economy is a services economy is misleading. As information and knowledge add value to basic products manufacturing and services are [...]

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In yesterday’s post, I began to describe in some detail the characteristics of the knowledge economy in the 21st century; in today’s post I will continue to investigate some of the defining factors that identify the emergence of this economic paradigm.
Learning organizations and innovation systems
In a knowledge economy, organizations search for linkages to promote [...]

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Knowledge has fundamentally different characteristics from ordinary commodities and these differences have crucial implications for the way a knowledge economy must be organised[5]. The whole nature of economic activity, and our understanding of it, is changing.

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In the 21st century, comparative advantage will become much less a function of natural resource endowments and capital-labour ratios and much more a function of technology and skills. Mother nature and history will play a much smaller role, while human ingenuity will play a much bigger role.

(New Tools, New Rules: Playing to win in the [...]

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