- Affordances: What can the iPad do that will AFFORD new approaches to learning. For example, can we create ePubs that are rich in multi-media and leverage the AFFORDANCE of "multi-touch" to allow a very different user experience as a learner?
- Content Evolutions: When the iPod and other MP3 players were released, it created a shift in content in the music arena. We were now able to buy just a song for a small amount of money and it dramatically changed how the music marketplace functioned? What changes in learning content will be stimulated?
- Learning Apps: I am hoping that the roll out of the iPad will trigger a sub-market of iPad learning apps. For just a few dollars, can we buy an App that will assist or structure learning of a key topic? Can we find Apps that will be Performance Support related - a spell-checker type function for a key role or skill set?
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Elliott...
ReplyDeleteI am intrigued with how the iPAD might be used to support OJT and other forms of workplace learning?
Are any of the LMS or Content companies coming out with applications, content or API links right out of the gate.
I'm picking up ours tomorrow at noon in Kansas City and will share real time comments.
Joseph Hampton - Instructional Designer
Great idea! My son is getting one tomorrow and will steal it to experiment.
ReplyDeleteKaren Muldower from Seattle.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI share some of my thoughts on the iPad which I posted on my Blog a few weeks ago. (www.nicobaird.com)
Some random thoughts about the iPad.
I strongly believe that the iPad will revolutionise education around the globe. I do not think that we will all have an iPad and that we will all now all of a sudden use the iPad to consume content. I do however believe that the iPad has started a wave of change, soon we will all have easy access to digital books and other digital media on devices like the iPad.
The iPod started a change in the way we consumed digital music /mp3’s. Mp3’s have been available for a very long time but the iPod and iTunes made it easy to buy and manage. Many others followed and there are hundreds of online stores where you now can buy mp3’s and podcasts. Each individual was given the means to create and distribute recorded shows around the globe. Having the ability to create, distribute and consume on one device made the difference and others followed.
Now we have the iPad, I believe that this device will do for print media what the iPod did for the record industry. Others will follow with innovative more affordable designs and publishers will probably at first have DRM on all content, but I believe in a few years we will all have our reader in hand. Be it in church, at work, at school or on the plane. It will be the way we get our print media. We will save a tree or two and we will make it easy to keep up to date with new editions of a book.
Yes this is where I believe we will see a revolution like never before. If you buy a text book for your studies you now have a “living textbook”. As new technical information in the specific subject field comes to light your textbook can be updated automatically. When you buy a book you buy a relevant and up to date book. Like software the books will have version numbers. Sociology by Giddens Version 2.1 etc.
The iPad in my view may not be a revolution in it itself, but it has opened the gates for a revolution in the way we consume and learn and share knowledge. Always updated, always relevant, always fresh.
Now that I think about it, you will probably never really BUY a book, you will subscribe to a book! Authors can write a book the way many writers write a soap opera. Each week a new “episode’ is made available and published! Your book is a “living book” This will make War and Peace look like an abridged version of a book.
Please share your ideas on the iPad and also educational applications of this great new device.
Elliott,
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! We are picking up our iPad tomorrow afternoon and will be using it to "port" a series of documents that we use in an OJT course.
Do you know of any simple iPad authoring tools coming to the market? And, what are the plans for LMS or LCMS companies to respond to this genre of device?
Jean Hall - Instructional Designer, IA
We've pre-ordered the iPads that have 3G access, so we can connect anywhere and not just via wi-fi.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the dialog that takes place on this new blog.
Bonni Stachowiak - Innovate Learning & Vanguard University
MASIE Center...
ReplyDeleteWill we be able to access corporate intranets via the iPAD? Are there VPN and other formats to allow access?
Joleen Myers - SW Insurance
Couple of quick Responses:
ReplyDelete* Yes, there is a format for gaining access to internal corporate sites. We will post more about this after the release tomorrow.
* I have been in conversation with several learning companies that are rapidly developing or adapting iPAD Apps. Expect to see them in the next 30 to 50 days.
* LMS connectivity is not really an issue, if SCORM, AICC or other standards are used. One biggie will be Flash issues. Stay tuned for updates.
Elliott
I agree with a previous post - the iPod revolutionized the music industry (along with iTunes.) Will the iPad do the same to the publishing industry? Further, will it be the place where traditional instructor led training (i.e. the student guide) can co-exist or even have a symbiotic relationship with learner led training (a.k.a. elearning?)
ReplyDeleteSeparately, what about the flash vs. apple conundrum? Will the lack of flash support be a mountain of an obstacle, or a molehill?
Company called 3D4Medical makes terrific learning tools for people studying anatomy and physiology
ReplyDeletehttp://community.advanceweb.com/blogs/pa_6/archive/2010/04/02/learning-medicine-in-3d.aspx
They are launching iPad applications also- Don't know if they will be available tomorrow but should be soon. If the graphics are as impressive on the iPad as they are on the iPhone it should be something.
JN
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-muscle-system-pro-ipad/id364596328?mt=8
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