LMA User's Group Meeting

I had the pleasure of attending a Conference yesterday where a group of individuals spoke of what LMA, LMS, LMC and Hot Lava had affored them the opportunties to do.

I learned about ‘Chunking content into appropriate Nuggest for m-Learning.’ I found out there is a Mobile Content Developer Certification program in the works out of Singapore, that was very much interesting.

AJ Ripin of Mem-Cards Corporation was there speaking on that product and how it was using LMA and Mobile Learning to get their product out to people. You can visit www.mem-cards.com and click on ’suggested uses for Mem-cards’ under ‘corporate programs’ to see what is available. We were given a sample of a set of cards they did for Club Med, using CM’s color scheme. What a great personal coaching tool these little cards are.

Tristan Evans of Perago Consulting spoke about ‘Using LMA in solutions on higher education & capturing feedback.’ Speaking in relation to the University level and how these students were using their Razor phones, or even Ipods to help with their continued education.

Mike Gillies of Naois spoke about IMELS (Integrated Education and Learning System) enabling the disabled access, via mobile technology, the educational content they might need to become more independent. Did you know that 6.4M students are in some way utilizing some form of Assistive technology? These individuals have physical, cognitive, and speech disabilities.

60% of disabled students never use a computer, verses 25% of non-disabled students. 9:1 student have computers in urban areas. Less than 10% of disabled students have internet access (38%).

Also, the potential for this technology to be used in the Restaurant world to train new employees, or retrain old employees. It’s not just the Restaurant world, what of the Service area, HVAC service Techs, or even Auto mechanics. Tracking of inventory, performance evaluations, etc.

This is some pretty amazing stuff.