2018 mobile learning This is a Pinterest style presentation of various posts related to mobile learning and its advantages. It relates primarily to adult learning and also includes information about trends and apps. It is neatly presented. rating 5/5

25 apps for professional development As the title suggests, this lists 25 apps for professional development. They are suited to micro and mobile learning, for the most part. In some cases, the apps seem suited to an early career employee rather than a mid career employee. There are reader comments. rating 3/5

mobile learning technologies for 21st century classrooms This undated article discusses mobile learning in classrooms in a nonspecific way. One of the sources is Marc Prensky, whose work has been called into question by multiple authors. The type of information provided by this article seems rather basic and a function of common sense. A few apps are discussed. rating 1/5

I am not familiar with the sponsor, Capterra. This page describes what they consider the best e-learning apps for business. The article seems to have credible citations (such as Gartner). I notice that some of the apps may be limited to individuals whose organizations use a particular LMS. rating 3/5

train and develop your staff with mobile apps I am not sure why the first two components of this page are included, but there is a bulleted list of contexts or applications of mobile apps for e-learning, such as leadership training, onboarding, and integrating interns who are part of the organization. This is interesting but I do not yet know how essential it is.

This is a round-up article that describes four apps that employees can use for mobile learning. The apps are Udemy, Skill Pill, Designjot, and BoostHQ. It is not appropriate for me to evaluate the information quality; however, this particular source (eLearning industry) generally produces accurate articles. rating 4/5

From booking a cab to ordering food, buying movie tickets, and communicating with team and clients from the warmth of our houses, we rely upon mobile apps. We, in fact, consider these applications as the core element of our existence – the perfect assistant.

True of almost everything in life.

Excellent article offering 25 important apps to help University students and digital learning.The best part is that they are all free (so easily fits into a students' budget.

From note taking to keeping track of grades, this list of the best apps will help improve classroom success and student engagement.

RATING: 5/5 (rating based upon a score system 1 to 5, 1= lowest 5=highest in terms of content, veracity, easiness of use etc.)

Has anyone seen any new uses of AR on iphone that are interesting/useful/fun?

The vision here seems more of a set of tools that can be integrated into various platforms rather than a single platform with a set of features. In this way, it's very similar to the idea behind EDUCAUSE's NGDLE initiative--or even Canvas's LTI-based app store.

Meditation, hence, is the ultimate tonic for the health and mind of students. It is ironical that despite the known benefits of meditation, students tend to ignore it. They are ever reluctant about meditation, assuming it to be a strenuous act. But the truth is meditation is a very simple exercise to mind and body.

I’ve found Canvas to be less draconian than I’d been led to expect. More broadly, the LMS ecosystem that’s emerged — based on a standard called Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), now supported by all the LMS systems — led me to an insight about how the same approach could help unify the emerging ecosystem of annotation systems. Even more broadly, all this has prompted me to reflect on how the modern web platform is both more standardized and more balkanized than ever before.

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The app I’ve written is a thin layer of glue between two components: Canvas and Hypothes.is. LTI defines how they interact, and I’d be lying if I said it was easy to figure out to get our app to launch inside Canvas and respond back to it. But I didn’t need to be an HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or Python wizard to get the job done.

Cue Roman Jakobson. In a way, by giving the illusion of mutual understanding, these apps exacerbate the problem. Also, because they do the worst job with rich language work (nuance, subtlety, wordplay, polysemy, subtext…) they encourage a very “sterile” language which might have pleased Orwell like it pleases transhumanists, but which waters down what makes language worth speaking.

Good to know. Somewhat surprising.

Though it’s described in such a simple way, there might be hidden power in adding these tags, especially when we bring eBooks to the Semantic Web. Though books are the prime example of a “Web of Documents”, they can also contribute to the “Web of Data”, if we enable them. It might take long, but it could happen.

On top of the whole debate between native apps and the Open Web, there’s a debate between apps and books. We might not reach the “Write Once, Publish Everywhere” dream, but there’s something to be said about having building blocks which are easy to adapt to different contexts.

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Birdly explains why they've dropped their mobile apps. It is not enough for a mobile app to be useful and easy to use.

For people to use a mobile app, it has to be something they use every day. It should take advantage of the device's main functions: sound, camera, and geolocation.

We spent so much time updating our app to comply with the latest OS released by Apple or Google, debugging the app, developing new features, ensuring our UI was well-integrated in the global OS

"Progressive Web Apps", an idea for better mobile performance using HTML5 Service Workers.

Why it is nearly impossible to make money selling apps for Apple iOS or Google Android.

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Schöne Idee, die multimedialen Fähigkeiten von Smartphones für 'ausgestellte' Geschichte zu nutzen.

Für die Entwicklung von Geschichts-Apps wird ein Blick auf die Eigenschaften von Mobile Learning sicher hilfreich sein. Die Visualisierung lotet das Potenzial und die Eigenschaften von mobile gut aus, und mehr dazu bringt auch die Webseite der Autorin.

Der Beitrag spricht etliche Punkte an, die für die Entwicklung von "Geschichts-Apps" von Bedeutung sind und ist auch für ein geplantes Zwischenfazit zu Mobile Apps zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte von Interesse.

Eine Übersicht bringt der Blogbeitrag: Mobile Apps zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte.

Mittlerweile enthält die App weit mehr Inhalte, nämlich alle georeferenzierten Artikel innerhalb der Kategorie "Judentum in Europa", die in der deutschen Wikipedia in hohem Maße deutsch-jüdische Geschichte betreffen.

Bei mobilen Apps zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte, die in der Regel mit Positions-Ortung (Geolocation) arbeiten, ist eine Datenschutzerklärung unverzichtbar, wie hier ausführlich und informativ bei der App LandauerWalk.

Artikel zur "Bergen Belsen App".

Is there any other reasonable bet than HTML5?! Especially in the smartdevice realm where there is a rich set of HTML5-family features already enabled it makes less and less sense to make native applications except for special edge-cases. And any smartdevice competitors cannot possibly compete against iOS and Android on their own unique native app development format-- so HTML5 would seem the only reasonable place to focus development of new apps. Where Ubuntu succeeds is compatibility with an already well established Linux ecosystem.