CLICK HERE TO VIEW RECORDING Wednesday, February 12 (2014)10:00 PM, Kuala Lumpur TimeONLINE TALKThe inspiring e-Learning Super Hero 'Dr. Nellie Deutsch' will be moderating my session (Top 50 e-Learning Super Heroes).  I am one of the guest speakers in this awesome Moodle MOOC 3 course. CLICK HERE to view the recording.CLICK HERE to view the class chat (text) for those interested.DESCRIPTIONImagine if you could read a 200-page book in 20 minutes? In today’s disruptive information overloaded world driven increasingly by innovation, we are required more than ever to transform the way we learn and think in terms of speed and creativity. In this online session, we will explore some of the things that we can do to stimulate and empower our brains and senses to be more focused, learn faster, and think more creatively. The most important message is that our brains can be rewired to be ‘Creative Super Learners’ at any age.SLIDESHere we go: Becoming Creative Super Learners at #Moodlemooc from Zaid AlsagoffRESOURCESLinks (URLs) to all the tools and resources shared during the webinar session:TEMS13- 220 Nominees for TEMS13- TEMS13 Winners- Top 50 e-Learning Super Heroes Five Categories of Brainwaves Super Brain Yoga- NBC News story- Research Report (PDF)- SlideShare presentation- InstructionsDe-Switch- Learn to "De-Switch" Your Brain!- Brainwave and Frequency Model Human Vs. Goldfish Average attention spansBrain Rules (and Summary) TEST-Learning FrameworkDoubling of Medical KnowledgeISA 2012: Malaysia’s Reading StatsSpeed Reading- Speed Reading Level- Acceleread (Speed Reading Tool)- 8 More Speed Reading Tools Research on JugglingSocial Curation/Bookmarking Tools Social Citations/Referencing Tools- RefWorks- Mendeley - End Note- Citeulike- Zotero Online Typing/Keyboard Training Tools Creative Thinking Tools/TechniquesLooking forward to the #Moodlemooc session (and meeting 'Dr. Nellie Deutsch  online again)! Insya-Allah, no technical glitches, and Insya-Allah I can teach a few participants on how to juggle 3 balls, or at least 2 balls.REFLECTIONSHere are two Moodle MOOC 3 course participants' video reflections of my online session (above): Awesomely inspiring to discover that two of the participants have actually taken the time to video reflect my online session, and upload them to YouTube! WOW and Thanks! I am still learning :)

1- Highlights of the week a- Google has closed its deal to acquire Motorola Mobility. b- Stats about Android activations per day. Relevant figures related to its competitors. c- President Obama issues a directive to urge major government agencies to focus on the "growing mobile revolution." RJ Jacquez wrote about this here. d- Last Wednesday, the White House released its Digital Government Strategy:Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People. e- Facebook releases new Camera app for iPhone and iPod touch. 2- Project Tin Can: Introducing Aaron Silvers and Jason Haag. 3- Origins and definition of this project: Looking for answers. 4- Is mobile the killer app of Project Tin Can? What this project can do for an organizational mLearning strategy? 5- Will mLearning experiences be trackable? 6- Project´s capabilities: simplicity and flexibility. 7- Building up a great community for implementation and support. 8- A new approach: learning experiences are not initiated in a LMS. How can this bring into play informal learning experiences? 9- ADL has recognized the need for a SCORM that matches today’s technological challenges. Have mLearning vendors recognized that too? 10- To find more about Project Tin Can, visit their website where you can also find links to different Google groups, recent posts and a Wiki, join their weekly calls on Thursdays at 2.30 pm. EST, and follow @mobilejson and @aaronesilvers on Twitter. If you’re adopting Tin Can specifically for mLearnCon, you can contact Aaron via email. 11- Apps of the weeks:  Quickoffice® Pro HD and twitter.com on Mobile Safari. Your browser does not support the audio element.

Written by Chris Osborn Mobile, social and video. This is the place where the real action is! The combination of  mobile, social and video helps top-performing organizations deliver agile responses to market challenges and keeps them a step - or in many cases - multiple steps ahead of their competition.   Online training works better and is more efficient than traditional classroom training. Video training is more effective at teaching than traditional eLearning (long-form click and play courses). We are surrounded by video in our online lives. We can watch video highlights from sports events or news channels, and YouTube is the 2nd most popular Internet site in the world. We are seeing major demographic shifts in the workforce as digital natives (Gen Y) enter our organizations, bringing with them a completely different set of expectations for connectivity and instant access to information. Finally, social media’s impact cannot be understated. Just about every web site you visit today allows users to leave comments, follow, share content and engage with others about what we see.   Doesn’t it follow logically that our employees might expect the same capabilities from their own internal training resources?   Let’s give it to them, and let’s give it to them in the short-form video format they already access to learn to tie a tie, and anything else they might need to know right now. And we can really make it powerful by letting employees contribute their own content and comments (social) and access the content on their own terms and on their own devices (mobile) as part of a comprehensive learning and content strategy.   Best-in-Class organizations are: 93% more likely to include social learning as part of their learning strategy, 94% more likely to leverage user-generated video content 119% more likely to use mobile learning solutions. SOURCE: Mollie Lombardi, Aberdeen Group Elearning!, April/May 2013       Stay Up-to-Date on the Most Current Business Training Trends BizLibrary offers 6,000+ training videos in various business training topics, with new courses added every day.   The Social Leader: Leadership Development for Growing Your Next Generation This complimentary eBook discusses the social leadership model, leadership model for your organization, the characteristics and traits common in effective social leaders, and emerging competencies that might be important to develop in social leaders in your organization. BizLibrary's Mobile Learning App meets the needs of today's digital learners. Employees no longer wait for training departments to push learning content to them. Employees are used to pulling information to themselves, when they need it, on their own terms and conditions, and on their own devices. - See more at: /technology/bizmobile.aspx#sthash.umjsk4e5.dpuf

by Jennie Ruby    Single quotes are used in American English (according to publication style guides) to indicate one thing, and one thing, only: A quotation within a quotation. The lecturer told us, "John F. Kennedy once said, 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.'" Small punctuation marks--the period or comma--are placed inside of any and all of the quotation marks. Questions and exclamation points go on the inside of the quote they pertain to. In British publications, single quotes are used to introduce new terms that are being defined a certain way. In American style guides, we are advised to use double quotes or italics to introduce terms. American: A "relational" database consists of multiple tables. American: A relational database consists of multiple tables. British: A 'relational' database consists of multiple tables. Take a look at these examples, and give them the correct and American punctuation. (British and international readers--feel free to give them the appropriate treatment for your writing.) In a 'client-side' application, the accessing computer does the calculations. The instructor said; "As Laura LeMay stated in the assigned reading, "For more control over your sounds, you'll need different software". Her boyfriend said, "The top song on my favorite radio channel says, 'You are perfect in my mind", and I think it is talking about you."! "The 'Wicked Ale effect'", according to my colleague, "Is a marketing technique for covering several media at the same time". A picture placed directly in the text, rather than floating, is called an "in-line" graphic. As always, please post your answers below. *** Answers to the British versus American English spelling challenge are brought to you by Susan Czubiak.  Other correct answers came in from Deb Gilchrist, Karyn R. Smith, David Zimmerle, Barbara Kennedy, Geri Moran, Nichole Gladky, Lisa J. Stumpf, and Vera Sytch (in no particular order). Also, I received a couple of responses where I could not discern the choices (color coding or highlighting may not have come through), so I apologize if yours were correct and I have not given you the credit you are due. Please let me know, and send your answers again in a different format. Colour / color Gray / grey Analyse / analyze Toward / towards Got / gotten (as in "They have not yet got / gotten their tickets.") Among / amongst While / whilst Encyclopaedia / encyclopedia Defence / defense Offence / offense Pretence / pretense

What are Conversation Searches?I often present around my Information Radar tools and methods, particularly my use of an RSS Reader. During those presentations, I'll mention what are sometimes called "vanity searches." These searches look for any mention of your name, company, URLs across blogs and other sites.For me, these searches primarily allow me to see what people are saying in response to something that I've put out there. Typically, these responses come via blogs and twitter.By finding them, I'm able to engage in a type of slow, network conversation. So, I think of these searches as conversation searches, not vanity searches.To me, doing these searches and engaging in these conversations is as important as responding to comments.Tools for Conversation SearchesBecause of Google Blog Search Having Problems and because of Twitter, I've changed how I do these searches over the past 3 months or so. When I look in my Conversation Searches folder in my RSS reader, I find that most of what I'm using are:Icerocket Twitter SearchIn IceRocket, I'm searching for my name, my site names, tags and particularly for link:XXX.com - for each of the sites that I'm involved in. Icerocket's search is working so much better than Google's blog search.In Twitter Search, I look for my name, site names, and tags.I've tried Twingly and SamePoint. Both are pretty good at social search, but right now I'm primarily using IceRocket and Twitter Search.Short URLsThe one thing that is a big problem right now for me in all these conversation searches are dealing with Short URL services. The most accurate searching is when someone links to a site. With Short URLs, you don't find those links - or at least I don't know how to do this.If anyone knows how to deal with Short URL links, please let me know. eLearning Technology Browse eLearning Content

JUGGLINGYes, juggling enhances connections in the brain! Juggling also improves hand-eye coordination, reflexes, peripheral vision and a host of other motor skills. Several studies have shown a correlation between juggling and changes in the brain's grey matter, the cell bodies responsible for computation and processing within the brain, and white matter, the nerve fibers that connect different parts of the brain by way of electrical impulses.Source: Wikipedia"Knowing that pathways in the brain can be enhanced may be significant in the long run in coming up with new treatments for neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, where these pathways become degraded." - Dr Johansen-BergHOW TO JUGGLE?WOW! But knowing this is not going to help you much personally until you start juggling yourself. Seriously, don't shy away from something so fun, reasonably easy (seriously!), and useful to increase your brain power (at any age). Let's do it! Yes, you can... I would like to thank Daniel Decruz big time for being the Creative Director and Producer of this video. He is still a student, so if you like his work, why not contact him for some freelance stuff. We didn't create any storyboard or script before recording. I just basically had some idea what I wanted to say and do, and then we recorded all sorts of things for roughly an hour, and then he did his magic (filtering out bloopers and noise) with my humble and challenging input to finalize it. HAVE FUN!Don't limit yourself to small balls or to just juggling 3 balls! Explore different ball sizes and try to do new tricks with the 3,4,5,6, etc. balls you are challenging yourself to juggle.  Actually, why limit yourself to just juggling balls, why not explore rings, sticks, torches (with fire...Be careful!), cups (plastic/steal ones!), etc...More ideas!Personally, I am currently learning how to juggle 4 balls properly, and then hopefully jump to 5 and 6 balls in 2014 (KPI)! So, for this year I will stick to juggling balls only, but I will challenge myself to do it in many creative ways as I Insya-Allah increase my brain power and connectivity :)

There’s no other Industry in the world that was more affected by Apple refusing to embrace Adobe Flash in their iOS devices like the eLearning Industry. I don’t have the exact numbers but I would venture to say that more than 98% of all eLearning was/is based on Adobe Flash (i.e. the learner needs to have the Flash Player installed) and thus making it an interesting challenge for our Industry to make the transition to mobile learning (mLearning), especially because of the market share that Apple commands with the iPad and the iPhone. When I worked at Adobe, the question I most frequently heard from my customers was: how can we make our existing eLearning projects play on the iPad? I have been and continue to be a big fan of Flash from my days when I worked at Macromedia and more recently at Adobe and was pretty ticked off when Apple posted Steve Job’s Thoughts on Flash. However for a while now, I have been thinking that in some strange way this move by Apple turned out to be a great thing for all of us in eLearning and more specifically as we transition to mLearning. Let me explain. The way I see it, if Apple had embraced Flash on iOS devices, all of us in eLearning would have been in a very comfortable situation and would have simply kept doing what we were doing publishing to Flash and called it a day. But what about the experience for mobile users? By doing so, I believe we not only would have defeated the purpose and uniqueness of mobile but we would be doing a disservice to our learners on mobile, too. Why? because the Mobile experience is drastically different in virtually every way to the Desktop experience and as such, learning on mobile should too be different from how we consume learning on the desktop. This is why I strongly believe the lack of Flash on iOS devices is a blessing in disguise, because it forces us to find new ways of developing learning experiences for mobile users, as well as to embrace new technologies, such as HTML5 and new principles, such as Responsive Web Design and thinking mobile-first. Can we make a successful transition from eLearning to mLearning without Adobe Flash? Absolutely we can. We just need to think outside the eLearning box and embrace new ways of thinking about engaging mobile learners. We need to stop thinking that we all we need to do is convert our desktop eLearning to HTML5 and we are done. We need to get out of our comfort zone and explore mobile applications and learn about what these apps do well and apply these principles to our mLearning design. We need to explore other industries such as web design and new movements around it such as Responsive web design and learn how these principles are being used to develop once and deploy the same content across desktops, smartphone and Tablets without plug-ins. So there you have it. I invite you to stop dwelling on whether or not Flash will ever work on iOS devices (in my opinion it never will) and start brainstorming on how we can deliver better learning experiences to our mobile learners. Because the mobile revolution is real and we are at a point of no return! Do you agree?

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by Kevin Siegel    Adobe last week announced Adobe Captivate 8, a significant upgrade to one of the top eLearning development tools in the world. Over the past few years I've repeatedly heard a couple of complaints about Captivate. First, it was perceived as difficult to use. There were so many panels, pods, and toolbars it didn't take too much effort for the Captivate workspace to get cluttered. Sure it was possible to create a custom workspace, but that didn't seem to matter. The fact that a panel could be accidentally moved from one part of the screen to another was causing all kinds of drama. Another major complaint was Captivate's lack of support for mobile users. You could publish a Captivate lesson as HTML5, but the way a lesson looked when viewed on different screen sizes wasn't something a developer could control. Captivate users will be happy to learn that both major pain points have been addressed with Captivate 8. Shown below is the Welcome screen you will see when you first start Captivate 8. There are two tabs, Recent and New. After selecting New, you'll find the usual suspects including Software Simulation, Video Demo, and From PowerPoint. You'll also see a brand new... and very awesome... option for creating Responsive Projects (something I'll cover in a future post).   If you're a veteran Captivate user, you'll notice right away that in addition to the Welcome screen getting a nice redesign, there is no longer a check box in the lower left to permanently hide the Welcome screen. This may not seem like a big deal, but I can't tell you how many times I've heard from people using Captivate 7 and older who tell me that the Welcome screen is missing. It turns out that they've accidentally hidden the Welcome screen. And while it's easy to bring it back, I'm delighted to see that since it cannot be hidden that issue is gone.   You'll be happy to learn that projects created in Captivate 6 and 7 will open in Captivate 8, and those projects willautomatically be upgraded to version 8. However, once upgraded, Captivate 8 projects will not open in older versions of Captivate. Prior to upgrading, I suggest that you make backups of your legacy projects just in case you need to open them in the older versions of the software.   After creating a new project or opening an old one, your next discovery will be the clean Captivate 8 interface.     At the left is the familiar Filmstrip; in the middle is the stage (or slide... call it what you like). There's no Timeline, no Properties Inspector, no Library. There's no clutter at all.   Of course, the missing panels are critical to your success in Captivate so you'll need to be able to open them. Take a look at the bottom of the Captivate window and you'll see the wordTimeline. One quick click on the word and the Timeline opens at the bottom of the Captivate window.     Look in the upper right of the Captivate window and you'll find buttons that will show or hide both the Library and Properties Inspector.     You'll notice that you can open the Library... you can open the Properties Inspector... but you can't open them both at the same time. And you cannot drag panels around your screen like you could in legacy versions of the software. If you're a workspaces junkie, you're also not going to like the fact that you cannot create workspaces. No kidding. Visit the Window menu and you'll find Workspace > Reset Classic, but that's it. There's no menu item for creating a new workspace. Okay, so losing the Workspace feature is a bummer. But if you're really missing this feature, I've got good news. Visit Captivate's Preferences (Edit menu for Windows users; Adobe Captivate menu for Mac users) and you'll find an option to Enable custom workspaces/panel undocking.     Turn that option on, restart Captivate 8, and you'll be able to both drag panels around your screen and create custom workspaces. *** Looking for instructor-led training on the top eLearning tools? We offer live, online training on Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline, Adobe Presenter, and TechSmith Camtasia Studio.We can also bring the same great training onsite to your facility. Interested? Contact us for details.

IMEC 2014The International Medical Education Conference (IMEC) held on 11-13 March (2014) is a forum for forging and renewing friendships between educators of healthcare professions from around the world; a platform to exchange ideas and experience and showcase innovations (IMEC history).Besides being part of the organizing committee, I will be facilitating one half-day workshop, too.Please, use the #IMEC14 Twitter hashtag to keep yourself updated about the conference as it unfolds from 11-13 March, 2014. WORKSHOPThe half-day workshop, I am facilitating with Hasnain Baloch is entitled 'Collaborative Web Tools to Empower IPE' (Inter-Professional Education). During the workshop, participants will explore various web tools to encourage IPE communication and collaboration with a focus on Google+ tools to empower collaborative learning environments, Facebook to create closed Groups, and use Twitter and Twitter #Hashtags to connect interest groups to share and discuss. PRESENTATION SLIDESHere we go: Collaborative Web Tools to Empower IPE at #IMEC14! from Zaid Alsagoff MORE?This post will be updated further during IMEC 2014. Can't wait to learn more :)

Great article in Wall Street Journal - Information Wants to Be Expensive (found via Big Dog Little Dog) suggests that more people should be charging for content online. There was definitely some good points about what people will pay for:People are happy to pay for news and information however it's delivered, but only if it has real, differentiated value. Traders must have their Bloomberg or Thomson Reuters terminal. Lawyers wouldn't go to court without accessing the Lexis or West online service....For years, publishers and editors have asked the wrong question: Will people pay to access my newspaper content on the Web? The right question is: What kind of journalism can my staff produce that is different and valuable enough that people will pay for it online?...American Lawyer founder Steven Brill argues that "local newspapers are the best brands, and people will pay a small amount to get information -- whether it be a zoning board or a Little League game -- that they can't get anywhere else."So people will pay for differentiated, quality content that they can't get anywhere else.Journalists as Human AggregatorsAs part of working on Topic Hubs, I've come to realize that there's a lot of very high quality content already out there. It's free. But there's friction finding it, organizing it and making sense of it.Many of the people who write the blogs who are included in Topic Hubs are the same people who are being interviewed by Journalists for articles. Take a look at the recent hub around Electric Vehicles. This includes folks like Chris Paine - Who Killed the Electric Car - who is regularly interviewed. In thinking about this, I realized that:Journalists are human aggregators.They go look at the information, often in areas they don't understand that deeply and pull it together into a meaningful piece. They are quite good at this aggregation role. And no current automation is able to produce as high a quality result as a good journalist. But ...The information behind the article that a journalist produces is already available for free somewhere.There are cases (the local little league game) where no one else has captured that information or where the journalist truly creates something new. But it's like the old adage ...In order to bake a cake from scratch, you first have to create the universe.It's pretty rare to be working on truly new, differentiated, high value content. Most of what we work with are derivatives. I think of everything I'm writing now as being new - because it's new to me - but I'm sure that there's discussion of all of these issues out there somewhere.AggregationIt's pretty rare when I disagree with Stephen Downes, see Stephen Downes is Wrong. But he left a comment on my Topic Hubs post:Topic hubs are not the way forward. Focus on being a network, not being spikey.I found this to be quite interesting. I think of Stephen as being one of the biggest topic hubs out there. His OLDaily is Stephen doing amazing things by finding interesting articles and tagging them; he also has technology that pulls it together and organizes it. This helps to make sense of a large network of bloggers and other information sources and organize it for consumption by folks like me who are not going to subscribe to all of those blogs individually. He also helps to organize the information for you via tags that allow you to find stuff on topics at a later time.I think that Stephen provides tremendous value on top of a network (and is part of the network himself). And I guess I think of him as a human-centric aggregator. Maybe a better term is provided by Robin Good - he calls this - NewsMastering.Newsmastering is the process by which a human being identifies, aggregates, hand-picks, edits and republishes a highly-focused, thematic news via RSS. It's interesting to see the term "human being" - both human and singular.I believe that Topic Hubs like eLearning Learning, Mobile Learning, Informal Learning Flow, Communities and Networks Connection provide a similar kind of value as Stephen and Robin - but attack it differently. In this case, social signals (human activity across the network) surface posts such as shown in eLearning Learning Hot List Feb 1-14, Work Literacy Hot List - Early February, Hot List from the Communities & Networks Connection, Mobile Learning Hot List.Each of them combines human decision making about what should be brought in (Thanks Judy, Nancy, Jay) and social signals, activities across the network - thanks everyone!, to determine what's likely good stuff. This relies much more on automation and doesn't have the editorial that Stephen or Robin provide. There certainly is a difference when you have a single individual (or small group) providing editorial control. Robin puts it this way:The real added value is specifically in the ability of the newsmaster to manually pick the very best and most relevant stories for its target audience.You can argue that none of the information provided by a Topic Hub is new. However, it is new in that it provides value on top of existing information much like Stephen's OL Daily and a journalists article. They use different methods to surface what's interesting or relevant. They create additional information and structure on top. And there's value in that additional information and structure.Aggregation TypesAs I'm thinking about this, there's likely a few different forms of aggregation implied by looking at systems like Social Media Today, OLDaily, Communities and Networks Connection, Techmeme, Sphinn and Digg.Centralized content or distributed content. Do they pull all the content into the central site or leave it distributed on the original source?Organization and Access - how do they organize the content. Human tagging? Automated? How do you access it?Editorial Distribution - Single person, small group or widely distributed control of what comes in and what is best?Each of the different approaches has a reason and rational. I look forward to trying to figure out what makes sense in what situations. eLearning Technology Browse eLearning Content

Employee training is fluid, dynamic and complex - which is why competency-based training is a more important strategic component of today’s employee learning strategies. Written by Jessica BatzEmployee training is fluid, dynamic and complex - which is why competency-based training is a more important strategic component of today’s employee learning strategiesEmployee training is fluid, dynamic and complex - which is why competency-based training is a more important strategic component of today’s employee learning strategies View and download the webinar slides. View the webinar recording.   TO DOWNLOAD THE SAMPLE COMPETENCY AND SUPPORTING BEHAVIORS JOB AID SHARED DURING THE WEBINAR, CLICK HERE (excel file). How to Create a Competency-Based Training Program. Webinar 04.09.14 from BizLibrary

There’s no denying there’s a revolution happening today in Education driven by important trends such as the Flipped Classroom, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and of course schools embracing mobile technologies creatively for learning. These trends in Education are bringing about major innovation from many companies that are committed to revolutionize learning for our younger generations. There are many great Apps out there from companies who are disrupting Learning and Education in a positive way through the use of Technology. One such App is NearPod, from a company called Panarea Digital, and this week I had the opportunity to interview Guido Kovalskys (@GuidoNearpod) about it. The company describes NearPod as "an all-in-one solution for the synchronized use of iPads in the Classroom," but in testing it myself and in talking to Guido about it, I actually think this definition does not do justice to all the great things NearPod enables Educators to accomplish in the classroom. There are two free NearPod apps that you can download today from the Apple App store, one called NearPod Teacher for Educators and one for students, called NearPod Student. The Teacher uses a cloud service by login in to http://new.nearpod.com/ in order to create presentations loaded with interactive features, such as quizzes, polls, videos, sketching tools and more. Any of these presentations can be shared in the classroom with the students in real-time and this is where the fun begins. The connection between the Teacher and the students is done via PIN number and once everyone has joined the NearPod experience, the Teacher begins to share content with the class in real-time. For example, the Teacher can share a quiz or a poll and receive immediate feedback as students submit their answers. Here’s a great video I found on Vimeo that explains this process well: One thing I learned in talking to Guido is that NearPod isn’t limited to all students being on the same Wi-Fi network, so for example the Teacher can post the PIN number via an internal board and then students can enter the PIN number and download the presentation with all of its interactivity prior to the classroom in order to maximize the time in the classroom. In fact, during our Interview you will notice that Guido shares a PIN number for me to enter as he guides me through it while we talk about what he sees as the Teacher and what I see using the NearPod Student app. The interesting thing is that Guido was in Brazil at the time of the interview and I was here in San Diego, CA, and as you can hear in the interview, there’s no delay whatsoever. If you are in Education and are looking at a way to creatively leverage iPads and iPhones in your classroom, in order to engage your students, I highly recommend you take a look at NearPod. Having said that, I started a new Podcast entitled ‘Learning Apps with RJ Jacquez‘ where I will interview pioneers in this space, who are disrupting Learning and Education in a positive way through the use of Technology. You can subscribe to this Podcast on iTunes here and if you are a company that has an amazing Learning App I invite you to be part of this initiative by contacting me.

by Jen Weaver   Many events in Egypt's history have had an impact on tourism, but your business needs may still require training and development in Egypt. Let's explore some common cultural facts about Egyptians and their expectations when it comes to training and development.  Test Your Knowledge of Egyptian Culture: Is Arabic read from right to left or left to right? True or False? Egypt is one of the most westernized countries in the Middle East. The terms "Upper Egypt" and "Lower Egypt" are oriented to the flow of what famous river? Quick Tips for Training & Development in Egypt1: Never show the soles of your feet, as this is offensive to Arab culture. Be mindful of this when selecting images or when sitting in meetings. In westernized culture, sitting with your legs crossed is a casual and relaxed pose, but it's perceived as impolite in Egypt since the bottoms of your feet may show. The left hand is considered unclean, so avoid gesturing with your left hand whenever possible, and always use your right hand when eating and handling "clean" objects such as offering gifts or exchanging business cards. The "thumbs up" gesture is also seen as rude. The Islamic Sabbath is on Friday. The typical workweek runs Saturday through Wednesday. Be sure to clarify the class schedule when training in Egypt. While Arabic is the official language, many executives speak English or French as well. Translation will likely be required for any in-country training materials. The Islamic faith is the primary source of truth; then personal feelings or facts are considered. Be careful not to speak against the Islamic faith, as about 90% of the population is Muslim. Family contributes to an individual's core identity, and Egyptians receive honor, dignity, and security through their family unit. These three values are highly respected in Egyptian culture, so be mindful of them to avoid embarrassing your contact and risking the relationship. It's a common Arab business practice to keep foreigners waiting for meetings, especially since Egyptian culture does not value punctuality. It may be wise to either schedule only one meeting per day when first getting to know your Egyptian client or team, or allow a large buffer between meetings in case they are delayed. You will likely need an Egyptian agent to do business in Egypt who can also work as an advocate to help you navigate through your meetings. Egyptian humor is often self-deprecating, but be careful not to join in. Only an Egyptian can make fun of Egypt.  Answers to Trivia: Since Arabic is read from right to left, Arabic-language training materials start on the back page or back cover of the book unlike an English version. Make sure your handbooks or manuals have colorful illustrated back covers to engage readers. True. Even so, business interactions with individual executives may range from westernized to traditional. The Nile. Surprisingly enough, this puts Lower Egypt in the north of the country and Upper Egypt  in the south on the Sudan border. References: 1Morrison, Terri, & Conaway, Wayne A. (2006). Kiss, bow, or shake hands (2nd ed.). Avon: Adams Media.   *** Developing international training and development materials? Contact Jen at Carmazzi Global Solutions.

TALK SHOWImagine if you could read a 200-page book in 20 minutes? In today’s information overloaded disruptive world driven increasingly by innovation, we are required more than ever to transform the way we learn and think in terms of speed and creativity. In this talk to IMU students (and anyone else interested), I will be exploring some of the things that we can do to stimulate and empower our brains and senses to be more focused, learn faster, and think more creatively.I will also be introducing a learning facilitation method called 'Talk Show' (New? Maybe, not sure!), which can make the learning process for especially large audiences more exciting and fun. This session won't be recorded, as this is the first time I am testing it out, and it might influence the students willingness to participate. Excited! More will be revealed in the coming days :)PRESENTATION SLIDESHere we go: Becoming Creative Super Learners at IMU! from Zaid Alsagoff This presentation only covers Level 1 of what a Creative Super Learner needs to master. Level 2 mastery skills are revealed here... Please, remember that these Creative Super Learning skills are chunked based on how I am planning to develop the program over the next months, and not based on difficulty level (e.g. Bloom's taxonomy) :)

A little more than a year ago, I published a post Touch Typing - Cursive Writing - Why? that asked why they would spend so much time teaching my kids cursive writing and not teaching them touch typing. The comment that I just received on this post was great and I couldn't let it be buried ...I am as perplexed as you why many schools do not see the need for students to learn how to touch-type. In my daughter's school, they spent time learning cursive and then were not required to use it except for limited projects. Are they expected to type their reports, though? YES...without learning how to type beforehand.I am a business teacher who has taught keyboarding in Grades 9-12 for many years and who taught keyboarding in Grades 3 & 4 for two years. Our school did not want to have to hire an extra teacher, so when a high school business teacher resigned, I was moved back to the high school and the keyboarding program was dissolved.My daughter is now in fifth grade in the same school district as I teach. It drives me crazy that the administration does not value proper keyboarding skills. In fact, our superintendent deleted keyboarding in Grades 9-12 WITHOUT placing it anywhere else in the district. He believes students do not need to spend a class period learning to "doink" on the keyboard.We teach students how to properly hold a golf club, football, tennis racquet and such...however, we do not teach them a skill that they use everyday of their life. It amazes me that more people are not outraged by this. However, many believe that people can learn to type their own way and that is sufficient.Within two years, none of my older kids are still using cursive writing. And now my youngest is about to go through learning cursive writing. I believe we have pretty good schools here, and I really like some of the things they do (writing starts immediately in elementary school). But this does make me wonder:Should I be outraged?And if I was outraged, is there actually anything that can be done if you believe things in schools should be changed? eLearning Technology Browse eLearning Content

Written by Chris Osborn   Today's Q&A Thursday discusses the Family Medical Leave Act and manager's role in compliance with HR Regulations.     Stay Up-to-Date on the Most Current Business Training Trends BizLibrary offers 6,000+ training videos in various business training topics, with new courses added every day.   7 HR Law Training Topics for New Managers (and Experienced Ones Too!) This complimentary eBook discusses 7 key employment laws that all managers should know in order to prevent inviting legal liability. BizLibrary's Mobile Learning App meets the needs of today's digital learners. Employees no longer wait for training departments to push learning content to them. Employees are used to pulling information to themselves, when they need it, on their own terms and conditions, and on their own devices. - See more at: /technology/bizmobile.aspx#sthash.umjsk4e5.dpuf Video Transcription Hi Chris Osborn, VP of Marketing with BizLibrary, with today's Q&A. It comes from Martha, she's an HR Manager at a Manufacturing organization with an interesting questions and a common problem. She has a manager and an employee who ran a foul of the Family Medical Leave Act, also known as FMLA. It's part of that Alphabet Soup of all kinds of HR Rules and regulations and laws that organizations have to comply with. And unfortunately, our front line managers and supervisors just like the manager that Martha is concerned about are stuck with having to make sure that our organizations are in compliance. Well here's what happened- the employee came to the manager and needed time off to deal with a situation at home. The manager didn't really understand that the leave being requested fell under FMLA. So the employee took off, manager got concerned, and next thing you know, the company is out of compliance. Now this one turned out okay, because the employee was great, the organization made everything work out okay, so kind of one of those no harm no foul situations. But the organization was lucky! And they may not get so lucky next time, so what's an organization to do? They have 3 choices- you can turn your managers into legal experts, you can turn your organization into kind of this church-chat kind of place, where everybody walks around like robots and has no fun, can't interact with each other, or you can ignore the law. None of those choices really make a whole lot of sense to me. Which gets you to another option, which actually does work- and that is to teach your managers just like this situation basic supervisory and management best practices, with some education about what they need to do in a variety of situations. In this circumstance, good management practices would have required some questions, some answers, some good listening skills and a quick recognitions, "Ah, this is a leave request, I need to go talk to HR and make sure we're okay." If we had done those things, everybody would have been fine right from the get-go and the organization wouldn't of had to have been lucky to have had an employee that was understanding. So if you want to make sure that your organization is in compliance with that alphabet soup, adopt good management and supervisory best practices. Train your managers to do that. Educate your managers on things to do with it's important, and last but not least, hire managers for good manager basic skills and you'll put yourself in a position to be in compliance. ​

Flipped classrooms are gaining in popularity. If you've never heard of the flipped classroom, here's a definition courtesy of the Flipped Learning Network: "The flipped classroom is a pedagogical model in which the typical lecture and homework elements of a course are reversed. Short video lectures are viewed by students at home before the class session, while in-class time is devoted to exercises, projects, or discussions."  From the Flipped Learning White Paper: "A teacher stands at the front of the classroom, delivering a lecture on the Civil War and writing on a white board. Students are hunched over desks arranged in rows, quietly taking notes. At the end of the hour, they copy down the night's homework assignment, which consists of reading from a thick textbook and answering questions at the end of the chapter. This dramatic, defining period in our nation's history, which left questions unanswered that are as relevant today as they were then, has been reduced to a dry, familiar exercise. The teacher is acutely aware that many students do not understand the day's lessons, but he/she does not have the time to meet with them to help during the 50-minute class period. The next day the teacher will collect the homework and briefly review the previous night's reading assignment. But if students have additional questions there won't be time to linger; the class cannot fall behind schedule. There is a lot of material to cover before the test at the end of the unit."Although it conflicts with decades of research into effective practices, this model of instruction remains all too common in American K-12 and post secondary classrooms. However, more and more educators now recognize that the learning needs of students, rather than the curriculum pacing guide, should drive their instruction. Educators are developing ways to personalize learning, using technologies such as video, digital simulations, and computer games. However, unless the traditional teaching model is altered, technologies such as these will have limited effects. One alternative model gaining attention and advocates is called Flipped Learning. In this model, some lessons are delivered outside of the group learning space using video or other modes of delivery. Class time, then, is available for students to engage in hands-on learning, collaborate with their peers, and evaluate their progress, and for teachers to provide one-on-one assistance, guidance, and inspiration." Read the full White Paper. *** How hot is flipped learning? Check out these factoids: Two years ago, 73% of teachers recognized the term "Flipped Classroom," in 2014 that is up to 96% Two years ago, 48% of teachers had flipped a lesson; in 2014 that is up to 78% 96% of teachers who have flipped a lesson or unit would recommend that method to other teachers Flipped classroom teachers indicated that a majority of students with special needs, English language learners from low income households, and those in advanced placement classes particularly benefit from flipped learning The majority of flipped teaching still occurs in high school--however the number of elementary teachers and college instructors has increased over the past 2 years Over the past 2 years, flipped instruction has expanded in all subject areas Source: Sophia.org.

1- Historias destacadas de la semana: a- Artículo: "The Outline Trap: Britannica and Brainstorming" acerca de la generación de ideas, los esquemas jerárquicos y las conexiones mentales. b- Microsoft lanzó una nueva red social "so.cl" para explorar las posibilidades de la búsqueda social a través de la red con el propósito de aprender. c- El Presidente Obama alienta la revolución móvil y ordena a las agencias gubernamentales optimizar sus servicios para que se puedan consumir en dispositivos móviles. RJ Jacquez escribió sus impresiones acerca de esta noticia aquí. d- La Casa Blanca lanza también una estrategia gubernamental digital: Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People. e- Artículo: "Why the iPad and the iPhone not Supporting Flash is a Great Thing for mLearning" por RJ Jacquez. 2- Proyecto Tin Can: la nueva generación de SCORM. Definición y orígenes. 3- Motivación para desarrollar este proyecto. 4- ¿Puede llevarse un registro de las experiencias de aprendizaje móvil? 4- Un nuevo enfoque: las experiencias de aprendizaje no se inician en un LMS (sistema de gestión del aprendizaje). 5- Características del proyecto: simplicidad, flexibilidad e interoperabilidad entre sistemas. 6- ADL ha reconocido la necesidad de que SCORM sea capaz de responder a los desafíos tecnológicos de hoy. ¿Cuál es la posición de los proveedores de mLearning al respecto? 7- Una comunidad para la implementación y asistencia técnica. 8- Para saber más acerca del Proyecto Tin Can API, visita su sitio web, donde podrás encontrar enlaces a diferentes grupos de Google, artículos recientes y una Wiki. También puedes seguir a Jason Haag (@mobilejson) y Aaron Silvers (@aaronesilvers) en Twitter. 9- ¿Qué significa el proyecto Tin Can para quienes diseñan aprendizaje móvil?   Your browser does not support the audio element.

BLOOM'S TAXONOMIESToday, I feel like celebrating Benjamin Bloom and Bloom's Taxonomies (2 at least). Like it or not, Bloom's Taxonomy has impacted Universities and schools around the world for decades one way or the other.  So, today I am starting a new mission to collect the most awesome creative visualizations of Bloom's taxonomies (old and new), and I invite you to help me discover them by tweeting your discoveries (or creations) to @zaidlearn or by simply commenting this blog post.ORGANICALLY GROWING COLLECTIONAll new discoveries will be added to this organically growing SlideShare presentation (with links to download and discover more): Creative Visualizations of Bloom's Taxonomies! from Zaid Alsagoff BLOOM'S REVISED TAXONOMYInterestingly, most Academics (in especially in Universities that I interact with) seem to be unaware that Bloom's taxonomy has been revised (way back in 2002).As far as I know, most transformative schools and Universities that still adopt Bloom’s taxonomy for learning and assessment use the revised version. It is probably because it is more relevant for the 21st Century World, which is increasingly driven by innovation and creativity.If you haven't revised your Bloom's taxonomy yet (Not too late!), it is time to rethink what really matters in today's education.Are you up for the challenge? 

by Jennie Ruby  A frequent reader of this column, Michael Stein, sent in an interesting question about the possessives we have discussed here recently: Perhaps you could address possessives again in an upcoming column. Specifically, how should a qualifier be added concerning a person in a sentence who possesses something. For example, "We played with John's, the kid who lives in the white house, ball." Is this correct? Here are my thoughts on this gnarly problem. In his email to me, Michael observed that in the spoken language, we would say, We played with John, the kid in the white house's ball. And in fact, there is a sound grammatical grounding for that. A description in commas right after a name is called an "appositive." The Gregg Reference Manual, my favorite guide for such things, says to add the possessive to the end of the appositive and omit the trailing comma that would ordinarily belong there. The examples, however, are short, as in these: Washington, DC's streets Joe the plumber's bill But I think that in a professional writing context, or with longer appositives, this falls apart and becomes awkward and possibly even confusing: We saved the file in Tim, the manager for the project's shared folder. Yech. And is it the project's folder, or Tim's folder? And the way this comes out, it actually means that Tim is not the manager of the project but just of the project's folder. Even the Gregg says to rewrite such sentences to avoid the awkwardness. So we pretty much have to go for the re-write in order to both identify the person and make the person clearly possessive: We saved the file in the shared folder belonging to Tim, the manager for the project. Or  We saved the file in the folder shared by Tim, the manager for the project. Or (and I don't dislike this one as much as Michael does) We saved the file in Tim's shared folder. Tim is the manager for the project. Long-time readers may sense a pattern here: for many of these awkward, confusing grammar and punctuation conundrums, my solution is to rewrite the sentence. No sentence is sacred. Every sentence can be rewritten. Keep rewriting until everything is correct and works smoothly. Challenge: Rewrite Around Awkwardness Margie, my sister in Baltimore's house has a sump pump. The tree with the hanging swing's strong limb is beginning to bend. The day on which her son is to graduates's date is May 30. The cabin with the gravel driveway's fishpond overflowed last week. The golf cart with the broken wheel's driver was not injured in the crash. As always, please post your answers as comments below. *** Answers to the challenge on single quotation marks are brought to you by Jenny Zoffuto. Her clean-looking examples for numbers 1, 4, and 5 come from not giving special treatment to the defined word when the sentence is clear without it. In a client-side application, the accessing computer does the calculations. The instructor said; "As Laura LeMay stated in the assigned reading, 'For more control over your sounds, you'll need different software.'" Her boyfriend said, "The top song on my favorite radio channel says, 'You are perfect in my mind,' and I think it is talking about you!" "The Wicked Ale effect," according to my colleague, "Is a marketing technique for covering several media at the same time." A picture placed directly in the text, rather than floating, is called an in-line graphic. Alternative correct answers came in from Kay Honaker. Notice what she did with the Wicked Ale example (no. 4). The single quotes are not the British usage, but are in fact what happens to double-quotes when they occur inside of an already double-quoted sentence. Nicely done! In a "client-side" [or client-side] application, the accessing computer does the calculations. The instructor said, "As Laura LeMay stated in the assigned reading, 'For more control over your sounds, you'll need different software.'" Her boyfriend said, "The top song on my favorite radio channel says, 'You are perfect in my mind,' and I think it is talking about you!" "The 'Wicked Ale effect,'" according to my colleague, "is a marketing technique for covering several media at the same time." [also could be done without quoting the colleague, and just putting quotes on the defined word] A picture placed directly in the text, rather than floating, is called an "in-line" graphic. Correct answers also came in from Ginny Supranowitz. And I missed one from last time: Ginny should have been listed as a winner on the British spelling challenge. Thanks for letting me know!

Written by Chris Osborn   There are fundamental management challenges associated with having employees multiple locations. In an issue of in Inc. Magazine, Darren Dahl listed six challenges. In our view, his management challenges reflect a lack of awareness of the behaviors and technology changes that are shaping much of what we are seeing the workplace today. So, we’ve modified and updated his list a bit and added one we think he missed. "No matter how widespread your organization becomes, you need to work hard to retain team cohesion and maintain the philosophy that everyone is on the same team regardless of where they work." - Darren Dahl   1. Out-of-sight, out-of-mind syndrome It’s completely normal to lose sight of things that you don’t have right in front of you every day. But your remote employees need attention, too. According to a Stanford University study, the rate at which home-based employees were promoted dropped by 50 percent. 2. Loss of spontaneous communications This is a challenge only if you let it become one. With the quality of technology tools available, there is no reason people cannot connect on the fly using any number of tools like Skype, on-line chat or any social media inspired collaboration and networking tools. Trust us - your employees are ALREADY connecting spontaneously with people away from work. They know how to use these tools. 3. Logistics "Anything that cannot be sent electronically, must be mailed, which causes time delays and increased effort." He has this one pretty well spot on. 4. Teams and complex work assignments The world is not getting any simpler, and most organizations are going to have to confront the reality of employees working remotely. These challenges must be addressed head on. There are tools in today’s business environment that enable us to collaborate and share ideas and information with each other without the limitations of being bound to the same physical space. We’ve witnessed an incredible revolution in the way we connect with each other on the web, and this revolution is changing the way we connect with each other at work. Social media-inspired collaboration and social learning tools not only make complex work assignments possible, these tools make complex work assignment far more manageable for today’s rapidly moving, highly connected knowledge worker than ever before. Further, collaborative teams and structures are going to become the norm, and we have to accept that many such teams will include members who do not share the same physical space. So we have to insist that ALL employees achieve a level of digital literacy to support the basic collaborative operation of our businesses. 5. Basic supervision This is a concern we’ve seen in some places, and it’s really an "old school" vs. "new school" issue. First, remote employees tend to be more engaged and productive than employees we see every day. These employees are more self-directed and simply need less supervision to be successful. What they need is managerial support, direction and coaching. It’s a new work world requiring a new set of managerial competencies. Next, the data from recent employee engagement in the workplace says that our remote employees are more engaged than employees on site. They work harder, longer and are more productive. Why put a layer of inept supervision in the way of that? As we said a moment ago, today’s workplace requires a set of managerial competencies that actually meet the challenges and needs of today’s knowledge worker. According to  Gallup’s 2013 State of the America Workplace Report :  Remote employees log an average of four more hours per week than on-site employees. Remote employees are more engaged - 32% compared to 28% of on-site employees. 6. Employee development and training Okay - and now to a true challenge that IS NOT an "old school" vs. "new school" thinking issue. This one is genuine, and is the core subject of the remainder of this eBook. Let’s lay out a few general principles to keep in mind as we go through our suggestions for how to meet this important challenge: Employees learn most of what they need to effectively perform their jobs from each other - socially or informally. You pick your model - 70/20/10 or 80/20, but formal training does not do 100% of the preparation necessary to get employees ready for success in the jobs. Brain science tells us we learn best in short bursts of information, on single topics delivered in video format. Manager support AND involvement in employee training is crucial for success. Technology-based training is an absolute must today.     Stay Up-to-Date on the Most Current Business Training Trends BizLibrary offers 5,000+ training videos in various business training topics, with new courses added every day.   7 HR Law Training Topics for New Managers (and Experienced Ones Too!) This complimentary eBook discusses 7 key employment laws that all managers should know in order to prevent inviting legal liability. BizLibrary's Mobile Learning App meets the needs of today's digital learners. Employees no longer wait for training departments to push learning content to them. Employees are used to pulling information to themselves, when they need it, on their own terms and conditions, and on their own devices. - See more at: /technology/bizmobile.aspx#sthash.umjsk4e5.dpuf

ALREADY!Yes, there are already wonderful collections of Medical and Healthcare related apps for Apple, Android, BlackBerry and Windows devices, which even include app reviews such as iMedicalApps. Cool! Though, we all need our own tailored collections in our fields (learning domains), which empower us with quick and easy access to discover and find apps we need for our learning, teaching, research and practice.TAILORED COLLECTIONSAs a result, I am using Listly to initiate a collective drive at the International Medical University (IMU) (where I work) towards making relevant and useful apps for learning, teaching and research easy to discover and access for students and staff.   Firstly, Listly empowers us to add tags to all items (apps) we add, and indicates how many items per tag. As the list grows, certainly tags will be become increasingly relevant and useful to zoom in what we are looking for.Secondly, this app resource collection has been designed to empower easy and quick access to a particular app for our respective mobile devices (Android, Apple, Windows, etc.) if it exist.Thirdly, it is indicated in the app title in brackets, whether it is free, commercial or have both versions. *F = Free *F/C = Free & Commercial versions *C = Commercial version only.Fourthly, I have just started to add items to this list, meaning you are most welcome to suggest items to the list, too (Moderated to ensure consistent design and filter out rubbish). You need a Listly account to add items directly to the collection.  Also, please feel free to vote up your favorite medical apps and inform us if you are using them.Finally, please suggest how to improve the collection design further (Example: Should pricing be mentioned?). Also, please anticipate that this organic list will grow fast and become increasingly juicy over the coming days, weeks and months...Thanks :) Medical Apps for Learning, Teaching & ResearchView more lists from Zaid Ali Alsagoff

No hubo otra industria en el mundo que resultara más afectada por la decisión de Apple de no adoptar Adobe Flash en sus dispositivos iOS como la industria del eLearning. Desconozco las cifras exactas pero me atrevería a decir que más de 98% de todos los cursos de eLearning estuvieron o están basados en Adobe Flash (es decir, el estudiante necesita instalar Adobe Flash Player). Por lo tanto, la decisión de Apple, nos ha impuesto un desafío interesante para comenzar nuestra transición hacia el aprendizaje móvil (mLearning), debido principalmente a la cuota de mercado que Apple lidera con el iPad y el iPhone. Cuando trabajaba en Adobe, la pregunta de mis clientes que escuchaba con más frecuencia era: ¿cómo podemos hacer que nuestros proyectos de eLearning puedan reproducirse en el iPad? Siempre he sido y soy un gran admirador de Flash desde que trabajaba en Macromedia y más recientemente en Adobe y me sentí algo disgustado cuando Apple publicó las impresiones de Steve Jobs acerca de Flash. Sin embargo, hace un tiempo comencé a pensar que de una manera un poco extraña esta decisión de Apple resultó ser un gran incentivo para quienes buscamos una transición exitosa hacia el aprendizaje móvil. Permítanme explicarles. En mi opinión, si Apple hubiera adoptado Flash en sus dispositivos iOS, todos nosotros en la industria del eLearning estaríamos ahora en una posición muy cómoda y simplemente continuaríamos publicando en Flash. ¿Pero qué hay de la experiencia de los usuarios móviles? Al hacer eso, creo que no solo hubiéramos desaprovechado el propósito y la singularidad de las experiencias móviles, sino que también hubiéramos perjudicados a los estudiantes del aprendizaje móvil. ¿Por qué? Porque la experiencia móvil es completamente diferente en casi todos los aspectos a la experiencia de escritorio y como tal, el aprendizaje en dispositivos móviles debería ser diferente del aprendizaje que se consume a través de la PC. Esta es la razón por la que creo firmemente que la falta de Flash en los dispositivos iOS es una bendición encubierta, puesto que nos obliga a buscar nuevas maneras de desarrollar experiencias de aprendizaje para los usuarios móviles así como también adoptar nuevas tecnologías, tales como HTML5 y nuevos principios, como el Diseño Web Receptivo y pensar en móvil primero. ¿Podemos hacer una transición exitosa del eLearning al aprendizaje móvil sin Flash? Absolutamente. Simplemente necesitamos apartarnos un poco del eLearning tradicional y adoptar nuevas formas de pensar que nos permitan responder mejor a los usuarios móviles. Necesitamos dejar de pensar que lo único que necesitamos hacer es convertir nuestro eLearning de escritorio a HTML5 y problema solucionado. Necesitamos salir de nuestra comodidad y explorar aplicaciones móviles, aprender por qué estas aplicaciones son efectivas y aplicar estos principios al diseño del aprendizaje móvil. Necesitamos explorar otras industrias como el diseño web y nuevas tendencias como el diseño web receptivo a fin de aprender cómo estos principios se utilizan para desarrollar contenido una vez y reproducirlo tanto en PC como en teléfonos inteligentes y tabletas sin plug-ins. Presten atención. Los invito a dejar de deliberar si Flash funcionará o no en dispositivos iOS (en mi opinión, no lo hará nunca) y comenzar a pensar cómo impartiremos mejores experiencias de aprendizaje a nuestros estudiantes móviles. ¡La revolución móvil es real y ya no hay vuelta atrás! ¿Están de acuerdo? Traducción y Edición del Español: @MayraAixaVillar