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Mobile Learning: More than just Mobile + Learning

Mobile Learning: More than just Mobile + Learning

by on February 24, 2012 in mobile learning

Mobile learning seems to be creating a lot of excitement in the learning community these days. A quick Google search turns up lots of interesting information about the topic. For example, according to a report published by Ambient Insight Research, the US market for mobile learning products and services reached $958.7 million in 2010. They project that revenues will reach $1.82 billion by 2015.

They cite a “perfect storm” of catalysts that are driving the adoption of mobile learning, including:

  • The increase in number of content distribution channels (such as App stores)
  • Rapid evolution of wireless handheld devices
  • Growing number of mobile learning tools and platforms
  • The sharp increase of new learning content and apps
  • Growing number of buyers and users

So everyone wants mobile learning.  But… what is it, exactly? Defining what constitutes mobile learning seems to be a topic for more discussion than one might think.

Elliott Masie’s …

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Video Training – why it’s here to stay

Video Training – why it’s here to stay

by on January 13, 2012 in eLearning, Innovation, mobile learning, technology, Uncategorized, Video, YouTube


I’ve been a movie and video nut for most of my life. Three high school friends and I produced a slew of super-8 movies that played to typically strong reviews (those I choose to remember anyway) in my high school. “Rockski – The Polish Palomino” a brilliant (to us anyway) parody of the Rocky series, remains a source of true pride for me. This continued into college and beyond using both film and video, with the productions growing more elaborate.

Being a new member of the Dashe team makes me look at video with a slightly different perspective – that of video-based training. I wanted to investigate why video training has gotten more popular in recent years.

To put things in a more global context, video is big. Brainshark, an online video presentation firm, reports on the wave of video content in general pouring out across the web. One …

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Impressions of the Masie Learning 2011 Conference

Impressions of the Masie Learning 2011 Conference

by on November 17, 2011 in mobile learning, Uncategorized

Last week I was fortunate to attend the Learning 2011 conference, organized every year by Elliott Masie.  So in this month’s blog I wanted to talk about some general impressions I had there.

The conference sessions ranged from topics of strategy to individual case studies, including organizational success stories, discussions structured around key learning topics and challenges, as well as sessions by thought leaders from business, learning, technology, and media backgrounds providing insight into current and future states of learning.

First of all, I noticed (again) a certain amount of disconnect between the strategists and theorists, or ”dreamers” (in the best sense), and the doers, or “worker bees.”  Theory, as usual, seems to outpace practice. For example, the sessions I attended seemed to be split 50/50 between those touting mobile learning as the “next big thing,” and those where the presenters responded that their companies didn’t “do” mobile, but nevertheless advocated “device-agnostic development.”…

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Unearthing Diamonds in Twitter

Unearthing Diamonds in Twitter

by on September 23, 2011 in Collaboration Tools, Informal Learning, mobile learning, performance support, social learning, Social Media

First, I have to confess that I am not a Twitter pro. It was only about six months ago that I set up a “business” Twitter account, and I have only a few tweets and followers to my name. My monthly Twitter stats are embarrasing, at best. I’ve had several conversations with colleagues about Twitter that end in “I just don’t get it.”

I am starting to get it, though. Partly because I haven’t given up (I skim my Twitter feed almost daily). Partly because of a few Twitter users that I’ve been following.

My Twitter breakthrough came about a month ago — along with a surprising social learning lesson. As I was preparing a talk on the trends in social learning, I promptly turned to Twitter. It was at that point that I realized Twitter was my primary source for social learning and social media news. Within few daily tweets, I was beginning to understand the impact social learning and …

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The Return of the (Digital) Native

The Return of the (Digital) Native

by on March 25, 2011 in mobile learning

In recent years, we’ve all heard a lot about digital natives.  These precocious youths, born after or during the general advent of digital technology, have an inherent understanding of its concepts in a way that their forebears cannot hope to achieve.  What’s more, they are beginning to use it at an increasingly young age – a recent study from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop (producers of Sesame Street) found that 80% of children age 5 and under use the Internet at least once a week. 

 As this is well under the age at which language learning is easiest, and as one could argue that mastering the concepts of technology (as opposed to rote memorization) is somewhat similar to learning language, it’s not really a surprise that many of these children are becoming wired to learn in a way that is much more technology-oriented than their predecessors. …

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