New Date added: Learn about Mobile Learning Design Workshop [March 8]

It has now been 8 months since I started delivering my 6-hr workshop on what makes mobile learning design different from eLearning, and how-to build touch-optimized learning experiences that work on every screen. Initially, my goal was to simply deliver this workshop a couple of times, mostly as a way to share what I had [...]

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Learning Designers have 3 Choices Regarding Mobile Learning [#mLearning]

Last week Cisco published a research paper entitled “Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2012–2017,” which included some staggering figures, as to the speed with which we are adopting internet-connected mobile devices around the world. Among the statistics provided in the report, one in particular stood out to me, namely: By [...]

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Mobile Learning is where the Puck is Going to Be [#mLearning]

  My apologies for the delay in blogging since my last post. I have been busy launching my workshop on how to transition from e-Learning to m-Learning. Now that this workshop is up-and-running, I’m back with more thoughts on the mobile learning revolution. Last night I returned home from attending a conference in Houston, TX, [...]

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Our 2013 Mantra for #mLearning: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify [Lessons from LinkedIn]

First, I would like to wish you a Happy New Year. May 2013 be the year each one of us creates a dent in our own Universe! Don’t look now, but there’s a revolution happening everywhere driven primarily by the rise of mobile. Virtually every process and every product is being “reimagined” because of mobile. [...]

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8 Things we MUST do in 2013 to seize the potential of mLearning

2012 has been an amazing year for mobile! This year we have seen technology companies introduce a myriad of mobile devices of all sizes, prices and operating systems. In 2012 Apple announced the iPhone 5, two new iPads and the new iPad mini; Google unveiled their first tablet, the nexus 7 and later the 10″ version; Amazon [...]

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Have RJ Jacquez Speak at your Event

We have entered a new era of mobile computing. This mobile revolution is an opportunity for learning professionals to reinvent our industry, from the way we learn new things by interacting with information on our mobile devices to the way we design the next generation of learning experiences. To fully realize the potential of mLearning, [...]

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Introducing: mLearning Design Training [6-hr Workshop with RJ Jacquez]

After delivering my 6Hr Mobile Learning Workshop for companies for a few months, today I’m opening it up for Learning Professionals. Why Register for this Training? This workshop is a result of months of research on mobile; mobile app design testing for best practices; countless hours of consulting and lots of learning about design from trial and error. You will immediately benefit [...]

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The Promise of True mLearning is a Tough Sell

For the last few weeks, I have been busy delivering webinars and workshops on the topic of mobile learning, and throughout, the one question I hear constantly has to do with people asking me for mLearning examples. This got me thinking about the true meaning of that very popular question. In other words, I was [...]

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Tablets will replace PCs but not in the way you Think

I’m fully convinced that mobile devices, especially Tablets, will eventually replace our traditional desktop PCs! Crazy talk you say; we need full versions of Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Avid Studio and Final Cut Pro running on Tablets in order to do that, oh and plenty of USB ports on my Tablets so that I can [...]

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For the sake of ‘Mobile’ I hope Microsoft Windows 8 and the Surface Tablet fall short

For the last few weeks, I have been reading and watching everything I can find on Microsoft’s Surface Tablet and Windows 8. My biggest fear is that with the upcoming launch of Windows 8 and the Surface Tablet, Microsoft is trying to UNDO everything we have accomplished in Mobile since the mobile revolution began back [...]

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From eLearning to mLearning: The Top 5 Challenges beyond Technology

Let’s get one thing out of the way, the future of eLearning isn’t about adding more ‘animations‘ to our existing eLearning (in the name of making courses more engaging), neither is it about an eLearning 2.0 or 3.0 vision. No, the future of eLearning and Learning in general is Mobile Learning or better yet Multiscreen [...]

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Think Multiscreen (vs. iPad-only) when developing an mLearning Strategy

One thing I stress in my mLearning workshops is the fact that having an iPad-only strategy for Learning is not a thorough mLearning Strategy. Granted, the iPad accounts for 91% of all tablet web traffic and that statistic alone is compelling enough to make you want to focus your entire learning development efforts on just [...]

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Learning Guided Access: The Killer New Feature in iOS 6 for Parents [Screencast]

The iPad has been called many things, including the ultimate babysitter. If you have kids and an iPad, you know what I’m talking about. Indeed the iPad is a great entertainment device for kids, but it’s also an excellent learning device with tons of Learning Apps available for kids of all ages. However kids have [...]

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Is it mLearning when you Learn from doing a Google Search on a Mobile Device?

My post on whether “eLearning on Tablets is really Mobile Learning” generated quite a bit of interest, with lots of ReTweets and replies on Twitter, many Blog comments, at least 71 people casted their votes, and at least two other bloggers posted their own thoughts based on my post. All in all, I’m very happy [...]

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What is the “Killer App” of Mobile Learning? [Chime in]

I get asked this question all the time. Here’s my answer. Here’s how wikipedia defines killer application as it pertains to marketing: A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app) is any computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology, such as computer hardware, gaming [...]

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Is eLearning on Tablets really Mobile Learning? [Chime in]

The only thing better than Blogging is the comments one gets below a post. Comments I believe is the real killer app of Blogs and some times comments are so insightful than they trigger ideas for new posts. Here’s one such comment I received in my is it time to remove the “e” and “m” from [...]

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mLearning is Bigger than Mobile Devices. The “m” is for Multiscreen.

In a previous post entitled The “m” in mLearning means More, I made a case for why I believe mobile learning has vastly more potential than eLearning, in no small part because of all the sensor superpowers built into mobile devices. I’m writing an eBook now on my thoughts on mLearning, and among other things, I’m [...]

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