I recently presented a session at the Learning Technologies 2013 conference titled Addressing the BYOD challenge. The session discussed BYOD from the perspective of Learning & Development professionals and looked at both the challenges and the huge opportunities that the widespread adoption of mobile phone and tablets among the workforce offers.

You can find the slides from the presentation on SlideShare at http://www.slideshare.net/alexmackman/lt-2013-addressing-the-byod-challenge.

There’s little doubt that the “Bring Your own Device” or BYOD trend is making a huge impact in the business world with a majority of employees already using their own devices at work to one …

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Version 3 of the Luminosity Reader iPad App is now available from the App store. I’ve discussed it in previous posts, but to recap, Luminosity Reader is a corporate communications and learning App for the iPad. Using the App, you can push content including HTML5  eLearning courses, Web content, videos, PDF files and more to your audience via a native iPad App. Users can consume the content while online or offline and usage analytics are captured and recorded.

In addition to various performance updates and minor bug fixes, version 3 includes the following:

• Push notifications. Administrators of the companion
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We’ve just released version 2 of the Luminosity Reader iPad App – a corporate communications and learning App. If you have an iPad and want to take a look and evaluate it, go to the App store, search for “Luminosity Reader”, install it (for free) and have a play! I’d love to hear your feedback.

If you’re new to Luminosity Reader, I introduced the App and also the cloud platform (Luminosity Reach) that supports the App in a previous post which you can find here. Also, here’s a brief video walk through showing the main features of the App.…

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I’ve been watching the emergence of project Tin Can (think SCORM for a modern world) with great interest. The folks over at Rustici Software working with Aaron Silvers and the ADL team are nearing a first release – scheduled for June this year.

In my view, the potential for what it has to offer is huge. Tin Can promises to address many of the shortcomings associated with existing SCORM standards that are now over 10 years old and as the Rustici Web site puts it “The Tin Can API fuses a decade of collective e-learning experiences with a decade of …

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I’m pleased to announce that the first version of our Luminosity Reader iPad App is complete and a sample build of the App is available from the Apple App Store. The Luminosity Reader App enables companies to deliver SCORM-based eLearning and other forms of content and corporate communication materials to their staff, partners and/or customers – using their iPads.

The sample build in the App Store is connected to a number of different content sources (or channels) to illustrate its capabilities. The  channels we’ve connected the sample App to include the Learning Solutions blog (which you’re reading now), the …

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This is a summary of a session I presented at Learning Technologies 2012. You can find the slides from the presentation on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/alexmackman/realising-the-potential-of-mobile-learning.

Way back when (OK, it was only a few years ago), when talking about mobile learning or mLearning, we were generally thinking of delivering “training” to smartphones and PDAs. When I say “training” I’m not talking about fully fledged online training courses – you couldn’t possibly study one of those on a phone – right?! – but I am talking about bite sized training nuggets, videos, audio podcasts and so on – the types …

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The Flash vs HTML5 for eLearning debate took another interesting turn last week with the announcement that Adobe is to stop developing its mobile Flash player. The writing has been on the wall for some time with Microsoft recently following Apple, Google and a string of other high profile IT vendors in throwing their weight behind HTML5, and announcing that their future Windows 8 tablet browser would be plug-in free and would not run Flash (or Silverlight for that matter). The rationale for these decisions and the arguments and debates between companies and individuals in the pro-Flash and pro-HTML5 camps …

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In my previous post, I discussed four possible deployment models for delivering SCORM-based eLearning on the iPad, together with pros and cons, and some of the constraining factors for each model. In summary, the four models that I covered are:

• Model 1: Consuming existing eLearning from an LMS
• Model 2: Consuming optimised eLearning from an LMS
• Model 3: Using an App with the content baked-in
• Model 4: Using an App “container” to load content

In this post, I’ll elaborate a little further on Model 2, “Consuming optimised eLearning from an LMS” and discuss some of the optimisations (driven largely …

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There’s no doubt about it – the iPad is a superb device for consuming content. It’s becoming increasingly clear that many organisations are seriously considering buying iPads for their employees. According to the latest statistics, upto 20% of iPads sold are for corporate use. Also, figures announced by Apple recently, indicate that over 90% of the Fortune 500 companies are currently deploying or piloting the iPad. So if you’ve not already thought about delivering eLearning content to an iPad, the chances are it won’t be long before you do.

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We’ve just release a new eCommerce module for the Luminosity Reach LMS. This enables customers of Reach to use the platform to advertise and sell their own eLearning courses via an integrated storefront. You can brand the storefront to match your own company requirements.

How does it work?

Any course identified as “purchasable” in the Reach course catalogue is automatically included in your store’s searchable catalogue and is displayed with any associated marketing materials you have added, such as a course outline or syllabus, the price and an image of the course.

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