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Slides: Developing a Learning Strategy for Mobile and Social (Keynote)
How should a modern organization factor in mobile devices and social technologies into their learning programs? That’s the exact question the Altimeter Group was posed with to answer for the mLearnCon 2011 conference today in San Jose.
In fact, we found that there’s six distinct disruptions that need to be harnessed which we call the:
Framework: The Mobile & Social Learning Honeycomb
These six ‘cells’ so to speak have 6 opportunities to take advantage of, they include:
Who Creates: From Expert to Crowd
Who Learns: From Siloed to Group
What Curriculum Is: From Static to Dynamic
When It Takes Place: From Fixed Time to Time-Shifted
Where it takes place: From Fixed Location to Anywhere
How it is consumed: From Comprehensive to Component-based
A big thanks to Researcher Andrew Jones (Twitter, Blog), and Research Intern Andy Nguyen (Twitter), for their help on this research.
Above: Framework: Mobile & Social Learning Honeycomb
Developing a Learning Strategy for Mobile and Social (Keynote)
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Update: Clark Quinn created this mindmap of the presentation, thanks Clark. I’ll cross link to any reviews, just leave a comment, here’s a photo from the back of the room, a couple hundred folks, and see this wrap up from David Kelly.
Google To Unleash An Army Of Developers Against Skype (GOOG, MSFT)
Google is building its open-source chat software, WebRTC, into Chrome.
Google will probably integrate it with Gmail, which is already a huge communication hub for so many people.
But the fact that Google is using open-source software suggests that the company wants third-party developers to build WebRTC into Web applications.
In a blog post, Google wrote that it wants “to implement this technology for use by the broader web community,” and that they’ve “engaged with the standards communities such as IETF and W3C working groups to define and implement a set of standards for real time communications.”
Microsoft/Skype should be shaking in its boots.
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Verizon To Drop Unlimited Data Plans In Two Weeks
itwbennett writes “The rumors have converged and now it appears that Verizon will be dropping its unlimited data plans on July 7, says blogger Peter Smith. Droid-Life lists pricing, starting at 2 GB for $30/month and going up to 10 GB for $80/month. ‘The one ever-so-slightly bright side,’ says Smith, ‘is that 4G LTE will cost the same as 3G. Of course, you’ll be able to burn through your data even faster.'”
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Comcast plugs in to Facebook, Intel to make TV more interactive
The television is getting more interactive, at least for Comcast subscribers.
The cable company on Tuesday announced partnerships with Facebook, Intel and others to bring social media integration and application support to its content service, Xfinity TV.
“This new experience transforms the way consumers watch television with a new guide and user interface that makes the TV screen more interactive, personal and social,” Comcast stated in an official release.
Comcast’s current user interface is in dire need of an upgrade and pales in comparison to competitors, such as AT&T’s Uverse cable service.
Also in need of an update is the current crop of underpowered set-top boxes the company provides to its subscribers to access content, which are mostly manufactured by Motorola. Per the partnership announcement, Comcast will use an Intel-based set-top box, manufactured by Pace, to power both the new apps and the added integration with Facebook’s network.
The company did not mention anything about remote controls, which are known for having a plethora of useless and unnecessary buttons.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts will give a live demo of the new service at the cable industry trade event The Cable Show Thursday, which will be available via live stream at 10 a.m. EST (7 a.m. PST) on Comcast’s website.
It is unknown at this time if the new service, which is already being tested in Augusta, Georgia, will integrate with Comcast’s recently announced plans to add Skype integration to its HDTV service, which the company announced Monday.
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