Monthly Archives: March 2012

mLearning – Hurdles Before The Big Leap

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Let us start by saying that writing a blog post on this subject is pretty tricky. And frankly the thought of skipping it did cross our minds. But we have decided to go with it anyway. Even at the risk of sounding cynical.

We have gone through hundreds of blogs, articles, opinions and discussion forums concentrated around how mLearning is the red hot thing in 2012, how it’s becoming a very integral part of everyone’s learning strategies, and speculations around the way it would be implemented by organizations. We very much endorse the same views. However we don’t want to call it the present just yet. The future? Definitely but as of now more R&D is required before we can say that mLearning in the online training industry has arrived. Yes there will be stand alone examples in various forms of mLearning being applied at university level. But a corporate client will still need more time to consider mLearning development. And we mean serious mLearning development which goes beyond the usual brief “Make this course run on the iPad too.” Continue reading →

The “New iPad” or iPad 2.5?

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We all anticipated the launch of iPad 3 but probably we don’t need to spell out how limited we found the upgrades to be, considering Apple themselves couldn’t decide to give it a better name than the generic “The New iPad”. Not that we were over optimistic about Apple actually including the features we had in our wish list, as written in our previous post. But even then “The New iPad” was a tad disappointing for most, especially us in the eLearning industry. While Apple may be saying that the pre-orders were a sold out pretty soon, but for a larger section of people, it left much to be desired for. Continue reading →

Why Tablets will win the mLearning race against Smart Phones?

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The one strategy that everyone wants to get it right is mLearning? It is a space that is evolving so quickly that it is difficult to stay ahead of the curve and one has to be extremely cautious while making the choices. And one such choice is that of the device itself.

Wikipedia defines mLearning as any sort of learning that happens when the learner is not at a fixed, predetermined location, or learning that happens when the learner takes advantage of the learning opportunities offered by mobile technologies. Continue reading →