With all the blogging I’ve been doing about mLearning apps the past couple of weeks, it has bothered me that the focus in the industry right now has been on the high-end devices. How many people in the entire world own an iPad right now? Maybe 300,000? I really wanted to learn more about how […]
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Blackboard's iPad App and its implications
Ray Henderson has a post up about his sense of responsibility to customers regarding balancing innovation with mature products (careful refinements in features and support services to meet customer needs) versus innovation in new areas (bold thinking and experiments). It’s vintage Ray—thoughtful, balanced, and customer-focused. And while Ray is always the first person to admit […]
Advice for mLearning App Developers
My colleague Mark Wilcox, now the product manager for Oracle Virtual Directory but formerly a developer at WebCT, wrote me with some good advice to mLearning developers: I wrote the first mobile app for WebCT as my last presentation at WebCT’s user conference before leaving. That may have been the first ever mobile app for […]
A Closer Look at Mobile App Development for Higher Education
I have been blogging a fair bit lately about the competing mLearning efforts between Blackboard and the Moodle community. Much of the conversation so far has focused on the front end apps and whether web-based or native apps are better. (The latest is that there is a native iPhone app for Moodle in addition […]
Moodle Mobile vs. Blackboard Mobile Learn: Web App vs. Native
I was incorrect when I wrote that Moodle Mobile would have an Android-native client. Carlos Kiyan, a member of the Moodle Mobile team, clarified for me over Twitter that Moodle Mobile is a web app which has, for the moment, focused on WebKit-based browsers. (Both the iPhone and Android have default browsers that are WebKit-based.) […]
Moodle Mobile Now Developing an Android Native Client
Well, I guess it’s mLearning Week here at e-Literate. Just a day after I noted that the main difference we are aware of between the Moodle mobile clients and the forthcoming Blackboard Mobile Learn client is that Blackboard plans to have native apps for Android and Blackberry, the Moodle folks announce progress on a native […]
Moodle Mobile vs. Blackboard Mobile Learn
Blackboard just announced the planned availability (in June) of Blackboard Mobile Learn: Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) today announced plans for Blackboard Mobile Learn(TM), an application that will bring two-way teaching and learning to mobile devices, creating an interactive mobile learning experience for students and teachers on the go.Blackboard’s existing Blackboard Mobile Central(TM) application already delivers […]