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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 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

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).

Move yourself out of the mobile learning “discomfort zone” by picking up some tips from Google’s marketing team

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.

Question: How do you scale your enterprise mobile learning from one or two good apps, to a company wide mobile strategy?
Answer: An Enterprise App Store for Learning

Mobile learners are mobile. Sounds kinda obvious, right? But sadly, many online learning providers dont quite get this. Sure – their PC-designed screens adapt and shrink to fit smaller mobile screens, the navigation is designed for mouse, not finger. How to fix this? The best method is real user testing. Watch untrained users try to navigate, on a diverse range of mobile devices. The eLearningGuild has just released a great report on this

A new model for work based mobile, and mobile learning.

Most of the academic research, and discussion around mobile learning starts from the more traditional end of the learning spectrum. It doesn’t always work for us. Here is the amended model we use to think about mobile learning in a workplace

Qualcomm has actively participated in the recent mLearnCon 2013 and shared its mobile philosophy through a Keynote session by Tamar and several other insightful presentations by Geoff Steam and his team.