McKinsey & Co. and the GSMA have estimated the worldwide mobile opportunity in the education sector will be worth USD 70 billion by 2020 (check out the previous post), of which USD 32 billion is attributable to hardware and equipment sales with the balance split across a range of products and services, such as eBooks, eCourses, game and... Read More ›

You Can MOOC Yourself! Inge Ignatia de Waard published an eBook MOOC YourSelf - Set up your own MOOC for Business, Non-Profits, and Informal Communities. It’s a manual for you to build your MOOC. She also made a short list of social media tools that are useful for MOOC, why you could use it in a course and... Read More ›

The internet is a great medium to connect people and change how we learn. All we need is love to make it happen. I am Sarah Chen — the coordinator of "English For Everyone" Project. Who are we? We are high schoolers in America dedicated to use the internet and online resources to improve English... Read More ›

Do you want to add games to your training solution set but aren’t sure how to get started? Bottom-Line Performance just published a white paper to help learning professionals integrate games into their training, and create meaningful learning games. It covers the basics involved in game design. There are lots of examples included. A game’s mechanics are... Read More ›

Hi Everyone! This is an interactive brain map that Open Colleges created to show how we learn using our brain. You can spin the brain to explore all points. Enjoy! An interactive infographic brought to you by Informed

Using game-based learning(GBL) or playful design for mobile learning is a great idea since people like to play games on their mobile devices. Game-Based Learning isn’t simply adding badges and leader boards to existing training. Carlton Reeve had created a series on how learning theories overlap with games. TechNavio’s analysts forecast the Global Game-based Learning... Read More ›

Documented in the paper: (PDF file : iArchitechture), the potential for using a community of practice model built by mobile social media for supporting pedagogical transformation in broader educational contexts is illustrated. iArchi[tech]ture: Developing a mobile social media framework for pedagogical transformation Thomas Cochrane, AUT University, New Zealand David Rhodes, Te Puna Ako, Unitec, New Zealand The goal of the research was to... Read More ›

Find more education infographics on e-Learning Infographics Intuition created a mobile learning infographic which explores why there has been a significant increase in the use of mobile learning in enterprise. We look at the number of mobile devices in use by employees, how these are used for ‘Just-in-Time’ training and why mobile learning is so... Read More ›

This question has been raised for a long time : How can we make learning as engaged as playing games? Because if it’s possible, we can expect higher and richer learning outcomes. As mobile learning is becoming the new focus of education, we are still asking this question. "Too often instructional design is about the... Read More ›

Technology companies with more women in management positions have a 34% higher return on investments. How to close the gender gap in Computer Science? This infographic from Best Computer Science Schools tries to answer this question. Source: Best Computer Science Schools Sources: http://anitaborg.org/news/profiles-of-technical-women/famous-women-in-computer-science/ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/giving-women-the-access-code.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/07/12/computer-science-continues-growth-on-college-campuses http://www.cs.purdue.edu/history/history.html http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/compsci/ http://chronicle.com/article/Rebooting-Recruiting-to-Get/135282/ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/science/17comp.html?ex=1178856000&en=8bbc752aa6e61e7a&ei=5070&_r=0 http://www.policymic.com/articles/60305/8-women-who-are-taking-the-tech-world-by-storm http://blog.newrelic.com/2013/08/19/infographic-the-fiercest-women-in-tech-and-why-we-need-more-like-them/?utm_source=TWIT&utm_medium=social_media&utm_content=womenintech&utm_campaign=promotedtweet&mpc=SM-TWIT-generic-en-100-womenintech-august http://blog.newrelic.com/wp-content/uploads/NewRelic_FiercestWomeninTech_FINAL1.png http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/meet-some-of-silicon-valleys-female-executives/2012/07/17/gJQA67aerW_gallery.html#photo=5