The global workforce today is confronted with a demanding environment in which to perform. In such a situation, it is vital for employees to be connected to information constantly.

As learning technology evolves and semantic web comes around, learning and performance support through mobile devices is becoming common. Effective mobile learning solutions can help you manage learning for your workforce that’s constantly on the move.

Activating knowledge before a classroom (or virtual classroom or even an eLearning session); Summarizing (after one of those sessions – delivered soon after the session); Recall (or reactivating knowledge – probably a week or two after the session. This ensures key concepts are revisited and helps in transferring the new knowledge to long term memory – especially for learners who may not get a chance to apply new knowledge immediately after the sessions); Providing application opportunities (through pop quizzes or learning games on mobile); Just-in-time search support by letting employees search in company’s knowledge databases (wikis, blogs, forums) using their mobiles.

M-learning originated from a 3 year pan-European research and development programme

What do many of these young people have in common? A mobile phone = inexpensive, portable and accessible to the majority of EU citizens.

In October 2001 the m-learning project was launched, aimed at capturing the interest of young adults, assisting them in the development of life long learning objectives.

Mobile learning (mLearning) is a form of distance education that involves connectivity through mobile devices and occurs when a learner is not confined to a predetermined location

Mobile devices go beyond the realm of PDA’s or smart phones; included are MP3 players, wireless notebooks and hand held gaming systems. Android OS devices, Blackberries, iPhones, and iPads are increasing in popularity for mLearning,

Since its conception, mobile learning has been directly tied to online education as the platform for both types of education is rooted in the ability to learn beyond the confines of a classroom.

s mobile learning gains ground there will be (and already is) a growing need to look beyond notifications for users and quick-follow-up assessments through mobile devices.

Learner side

Access to all notifications on mobile version as in the main LMS version.

Using your smartphone, you scan the tag and your phone quickly finds the associated content on the Web – from URLs, to maps, to contact information, to photos, videos, and more. Inexpensive scanners will also do the same for laptops and PCs.

Why is this exciting? Because almost any physical (non-Web) object can use tags to provide additional information, including multimedia content, precisely at the moment of need

or mLearning, tags have huge possibilities

1. What's working?

2. What's not working

What's still in process?

La formación superior vivirá una revolución para adaptarse a un nuevo modelo de aprendizaje: el 'mobile learning'.

El acceso a información en cualquier lugar y en todo momento, la comunicación a través de redes sociales –especialmente Twitter y Facebook–, la producción de vídeos y audio y la descarga de juegos no sólo suponen una transformación en los hábitos de ocio y consumo del usuario, sino un cambio cultural que no resulta ajeno al ámbito académico.

a metodología mobile learning –esto es, formación a través de smartphones, smartbooks, tabletas digitales, netbooks, PDA,

adoption has taken a bit longer than we expected, mainly due to lack of suitable platforms

I will address the flood of mobile platform OSs coming in the next six months (iOS, Android, webOS, Windows 7, Blackberry Tablet OS, and the devices that use them)

provide links to information about available tools for developing mLearning and mobile performance support

In this market growth phase, instructional designers and managers, as well as vendors, need to identify and understand the critical success factors that will make mobile learning an everyday practice

And it is content — content fit for the mobile learning purpose — that will drive market growth

mobile learning is employing a device in a way that improves productivity

A stable, durable health system will have learning and specifically continued medical education embedded in its core, for without keeping health care workers, health managers… up to date on latest changes, the patients will not be reached with optimal health care. In relation to this, I share this National Health Service (United Kingdom) paper focusing on 29 recommendations for embedding mLearning in their health care system http://ignatiawebs.blogspot.be/2011/04/how-can-health-within-clinics-be.html these recommendations do not always apply to more challenged regions, but some of them can indeed be implemented.