When you’re dealing with a technology that evolves at breakneck speeds, the conversations around that technology will often shift course often as well. Such is the case of mobile technologies and how they should be used for learning. Years ago, when mobile learning was a new concept that organizations were …
Our smartphones are fully embedded into our lives today. They are rapidly becoming a natural extension of everything we do, including entertainment, social interaction, productivity, and yes, even learning. We spend so much time-consuming information that we often forget to step back and consider why we consume what we do, …
With the FocusOn Learning Conference just around the corner you might already be thinking about what you’ll need to bring along with you each day to make the experience as smooth as possible. It’s a tricky balance: you don’t want skip bringing something you’ll end up desperately needing, but you also don’t …
It’s just a few short weeks until the very first FocusOn Learning Conference. As you start thinking about how to spend your time in Austin, we thought we’d share a few of the tips we’ve found make conferences more useful (and just plain enjoyable) for us: How do you choose …
The first-ever FocusOn Learning 2016 Conference & Expo is just around the corner and people are getting excited. We asked a handful of those attending FocusOn Learning to share what they are most looking forward to about the event. Here’s what they had to say. 1. Learning about the convergence …
This guest post comes to us from Thomas Spiglanin, senior project leader at the Aerospace Corporation and upcoming speaker at FocusOn Learning 2016 Conference & Expo. For some time now, the worlds of video and eLearning have been growing closer. Video historically has required expensive software and dedicated production hardware, …
This guest post comes to us from Sarah Gilbert, president at meLearning Solutions and upcoming speaker at FocusOn Learning 2016 Conference & Expo. The most common question I’m asked is: “Why should we care about mobile learning?” In a time when most people are carrying around a personal mobile device (sometimes …
This guest post comes to us from Clark Quinn, executive director at Quinnovation and upcoming speaker at FocusOn Learning 2016 Conference & Expo. Increasingly, our world is instrumented. Devices are now equipped with sensors that can tell us a lot about what’s happening in our environment and even with ourselves. …
This guest post comes to us from Molly Petroff, education specialist at Saint Vincent Hospital and upcoming speaker at FocusOn Learning 2016 Conference & Expo. I was sitting in a conference session several years ago on something called “performance support” (PS). Quite frankly, I was there just because there was …