WorkLearnMobile - The Mobile Learning Innovation Network

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).

Handy guide to mobile learning BuzzWords. Make sure you to know enough to separate out the Buzzword Buffoons from the serious practitioners. Use our handy scoring guide to figure out who knows what they are talking about, and who’s drinking a little too much of their own KoolAid.

LinkedIn surprised us all this morning by announcing they have bought the popular video learning company, Lynda.com, for $1.5bn. Both parties sound ecstatic about the deal, but old-school L&D departments ought to be shaking in their shoes. They risk being left behind in the stampede of engaged employees, looking to the web to help them…

What’s new in Mobile Learning? Let us save you some time by sorting through the best of January’s mLearning:

The Mobile Learning team at Qualcomm are very excited to have been selected as finalists for 2 different categories of this years CLO Practitioner awards:

Tamar Elkeles (VP of Learning) under the Trailblazer category
Geoff Stead (Sr Director, Mobile Learning) under the Technology category

Find out more about them here

We’re very excited to be able to offer some new places on our team. Are you an enthusiastic mobile developer looking for more meaning in your life? Our Mobile Learning Lab in San Diego might just be the place to be!

Do you want a pre-release version of Qualcomm’s new Toq watch? Read below to find out how to create a virtual one in about 5 minutes! The trend of the year is surely the smart watch. 2013 seems to be the year when everyone is announcing them. The big guys like Samsung, Qualcomm, Sony, Apple…

Ever get bored of sales pitches, and want to know what is REALLY happening in mobile learning?

We do! That’s why we sponsored the first ever mLearnCon Demofest, asking anybody with a good idea, a cool app, or an inspiring m-learning story to stand up and share it!

It happened in Silicon Valley, June 2013 as part of mLearnCon. Here is our lightening summary of the event:

You know that mobile learning has moved into the mainstream when network operators, and the mobile data industry starts to get excited. This year, at the 2013 Mobile World Congress, it started!

GSMA hosted a series of events exploring the opportunities for their members (operators, mostly) in this emergent area. We were there. This is what we saw …

Welcome to WorkLearnMobile.

You’ve heard the hype. Mobile is everywhere. More smartphones are sold the world over than feature phones. Global connectivity continues to increase, while data costs drop. Mobile learning is changing the landscape of teaching/training/learning/working.

Or is it?