2011 was supposed to be The Year of Mobile Learning, but it hasn’t lived up to the hype. That is, until now!
While mobile devices like iPhones, Android Phones, and iPads have been around for a couple of years, the tools used to develop mobile learning solutions for those devices have made it all but impossible to serve a broadly distributed audience operating on multiple operating systems and platforms.
However, a couple of announcements made within the last month have literally transformed this space overnight. Just last month Adobe released new versions of Flash Builder and Flex that allow Flash developers to create and release applications that will run on all Apple iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad), as well as Android devices and Blackberry’s new Playbook tablet.
In response, Blueline has introduced our clients to the concept of eBooks. eBooks take a fresh new approach to Level 1 and 2 custom elearning through the use of an interactive online magazine format like CNN.com or the Wall Street Journal Online. eBooks are incredibly effective for communication and knowledge transfer, and are far more accepted by the new generation of learners than old school rapid development platforms like Captivate, Lectora and Articulate. They are a great replacement for pre-work or pre-reading, or any application that requires just-in-time knowledge transfer and communication sharing.
eBooks are built in Flash and have always been accessible through any web browser. And now, because of the new tools announced by Adobe, they are easily ported to any and all of your favorite mobile devices.
eBooks bring your content to life! Unlike print media, eBooks are easily navigated, have robust search capabilities, link to any LMS, engage through a broad range of interactivities, and can incorporate video and audio. And because the Flash designs pull from separate XML files, the content is easily updatable and makes translation and localization a breeze.
Want to learn more about how easy it is to make mobile learning a competitive advantage for your business? Call the mobile learning experts at Blueline Simulations today!
