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So how are people really using the iPad?

Jul 22

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A recent posting on Mashable reports some interesting data from Resolve Market Research based on an online survey of potential purchasers and active users of iPads, smart phones, e-readers and portable video game devices in the USA. It provides some insights into the uses early adopters are finding for their iPads and the effect this is having on competitive devices: The iPad was initially positioned as a device for reading, watching videos and web browsing

Tags: apple, early-adopters, footsteps, iPad, ipod, portable-gaming, purchasers-said, research, video

Latest CEGOS survey shows how Europe is shaping up for learning technologies

Jun 18

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CEGOS has just released the results of their 2010 learning and development survey, carried out in March among 2,200 employees from small, medium and large companies in the UK, France, Germany and Spain. The results are interesting, particularly in terms of attitudes to, and usage of learning technologies.

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Latest CEGOS survey shows how Europe is shaping up for learning technologies

Tags: countries, europe, france, games-or-mobile, leading-the-way, personal, research, spain, training, virtual classrooms, words

The iPad is your ultimate travel companion

Jun 15

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I didn’t mean to get an iPad. I’ve even written rather cynical posts about it. But one sort of dropped in my lap.Sort of

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The iPad is your ultimate travel companion

Tags: arrived-the-day, beach, evernote, finish-the-one, flash, functionality, iPad, life, PowerPoint, role, smart, usability

There’s no need to aspire to Hollywood content

Jun 1

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A number of comments made by participants at the Second European Articulate Conference , which I attended in Leeds last month, gave me the impression that designers are overly anxious about the production values of their interactive content. In particular they are concerned that learners might regard their content as low quality in comparison with commercial video games, movies and other mass media, and therefore not worthy of their attention. In my opinion, it is pointless to fret about relative production values, for a number of reasons: You will never in your wildest dreams be able to match ‘Hollywood’ production values or even get anywhere near.

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There’s no need to aspire to Hollywood content

Tags: create-relevant, european, expensive-games, games, impression, interactive, media-consumers, rapid e-learning, second-european, values-or-even

Before we criticise the next new medium …

May 28

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Don’t Shoot the Messenger , in a recent issue of The Economist, emphasised just how much new media have been resisted over the ages. The stimulus was Obama’s recent seemingly technophobic pronouncement that “With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations—none of which I know how to work—information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment.” As the article points out, Obama “joined a long tradition of grumbling about new technologies and new forms of media.” Apparently – and you’ll never believe this – Socrates objected to the spread of writing because it would cause people to rely on written texts rather than their memory

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Before we criticise the next new medium …

Tags: article, attacked-video, games, increasing, iPad, messenger, mind, rely-on-written, romantic-novels, video

The Big Question: What will workplace learning technology look like in 2015?

May 20

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The May Big Question in the Learning Circuits Blog is What will workplace learning technology look like in 2015 ? My first instinct was to pass on this one, because it seems only a few months since we made our predictions for 2010. But this asks us to look a little further out, to a time when economies will hopefully be back on the up and when new media really will be ubiquitous.

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The Big Question: What will workplace learning technology look like in 2015?

Tags: apple, BigQuestion, convincingly, environmental, flash, games, internet, internet-time, microsoft, money, open-source, predictions, time, windows

Because you can use one technology doesn’t mean you can use them all

May 16

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It is easy to assume that the so-called digital natives will respond without difficulty to any technological challenge, but a survey from Cengage Learning and Eduventures , entitled “Instructors and Students: Technology Use, Engagement and Learning Outcomes,”

Tags: credibility, digital, digital-natives, engagement, students-prefer, survey, technology, tools, transferability, video

Learning in 3D: a stop on the world blog book tour

Jan 29

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I have been asked by Karl M. Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll to participate in the Blog Book Tour for their new book Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration

Tags: 3D worlds, appropriateness, book, collaboration, enterprise, experience, flash, games, learning, opportunities, percentages, really-informed, tour

Learning in 3D: a stop on the world blog book tour

Jan 29

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I have been asked by Karl M. Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll to participate in the Blog Book Tour for their new book Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration .

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Learning in 3D: a stop on the world blog book tour

Tags: 3D worlds, applications, book, collaboration, enterprise, experience, flash, games, learning, opportunities, really-informed, tour

It’s not a surprise when change comes slowly

Jan 20

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There was some consternation on Twitter about the results of the survey that Alison Rossett and James Marshall conducted with 968 ASTD and eLearning Guild members in mid 2009. As the authors point out, if you went by the themes of most l&d conferences, blogs and magazines, then you’d believe the classroom was in terminal decline and that self-paced e-learning tutorials were being fast replaced by games, sims, 3D worlds, and all forms of social and collaborative learning, much of it mobile. Well, surprise, surprise, that seems like wishful thinking

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It’s not a surprise when change comes slowly

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So how are people really using the iPad?

Latest CEGOS survey shows how Europe is shaping up for learning technologies

The iPad is your ultimate travel companion

There’s no need to aspire to Hollywood content

Before we criticise the next new medium …

The Big Question: What will workplace learning technology look like in 2015?

Because you can use one technology doesn’t mean you can use them all

Learning in 3D: a stop on the world blog book tour

Learning in 3D: a stop on the world blog book tour

It’s not a surprise when change comes slowly

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