WorkLearnMobile - The Mobile Learning Innovation Network

Is your organization innovative enough? The ultimate innovation challenge in business is how to balance two opposing forces: Allowing the freedom to innovate while at the same time managing business as usual. Sadly most large organizations fail to keep these in balance. They fail to innovate themselves, but at the same time  fail to successfully import innovation from others How can…

Meet Woebot, a friendly, robotic voice who wants to help you manage your mental health. . . and it seems to be working. Anxiety and depression can have a real impact on people’s lives. Mind (UK mental health charity) found that nearly half of all public sector workers have been forced to take time off because of…

I’ve done a few keynotes recently in both UK & Australia, exploring how emerging technologies are impacting today’s businesses. We covered the usual topics (AI, VR, mobile, personalisation), before diving into a fairly meaty dialog about how the entire Learning and Development industry needs to to re-calibrate a bit. The “rude awakening” came from the…

If you are interested in the online learning industry, take the time to check out Ambient Insight’s long, but interestingly blunt report on the future of the generic e-learning industry If you are in an industry still wedded to big-screen e-learning makes  for a chilling read. Just have a look at these growth rates For the <TL:DR>…

Sometimes the coolest things happen quietly. Early one morning a team of artists and technology geeks stealthily launched this massive, augmented reality artwork on a warehouse in San Diego. And nobody knows how or why . . .

I was recently invited to keynote at a very exclusive mobile learning summit with a strong focus on blending L&D with performance support. My talk provided 6 main lessons that have helped us master mobile learning. See if they work for you:

What’s the secret to mobile learning design? Dr. Rob Power of the International Association for Mobile Learning (IAML) interviewed Geoff Stead for a recent VodCast series. Catch the summary here

WorkLearnMobile is proud to release our whitepaper, co-produced with Performance Support gurus Bob Mosher and Con Gottfredson. It’s free to download, but in return we’d love to know what you think!

Interested in what’s new? Curious about the coolest mobile learning projects out there? Get the inside scoop by checking out some of the talks from this year’s Learning Technologies conference (now free to access).

We’re really pleased that our mobile learning has won a Brandon Hall Gold for the 2nd year running! We were awarded Gold for the Best Advances in Mobile Learning 2015. Unlike our fellow awardees we didn’t submit for one single app, but instead described the broader mobile app strategy that we were running at Qualcomm, and…