The Mobile Learning Tipping Point

Editor's Notes

• #6: A recent (2012) study from Sterling Brands and Ipsos, commissioned by Google, found that Americans (participants were from Boston, Austin and Los Angeles) engage with screens (computer, tablet, television & smart phones) 90% of the time. 
• #7: A recent (2012) study from Sterling Brands and Ipsos, commissioned by Google, found that Americans (participants were from Boston, Austin and Los Angeles) engage with screens (computer, tablet, television & smart phones) 90% of the time.  77% of TV viewers are using a smart device while they watch television.
• #8: A recent (2012) study from Sterling Brands and Ipsos, commissioned by Google, found that Americans (participants were from Boston, Austin and Los Angeles) engage with screens (computer, tablet, television & smart phones) 90% of the time. 
• #13: Adobe Captivate 8 software reimagines eLearning authoring for a multi-device world. Develop responsive mobile learning without programming and transform PowerPoint slides using out-of-the-box assets. Leverage best-in-class HTML5 publishing to deliver any content to virtually any device.  Adopt a mobile-first approach to eLearning. Deliver seamless experiences across devices using an intuitive multi device authoring canvas. Create, customize, and preview content without programming. Leverage device-specific capabilities, such as GPS and gesture support, to deliver first-in-class mobile Easily create show-me product demos in HD, let-me-try simulations, and test-me compliance training materials using a single versatile tool. Transform Microsoft PowerPoint slides into HTML5-based eLearning content. Include eye-catching quizzes and interactions, and publish projects as apps, to devices, desktops, and YouTube, and leading LMSs. Enrich courses with customizable out-of-the-box assets, such as actors, drag-and-drop elements, themes, responsive themes, and more. Select from stunning interactions, including Millionaire, Hangman, Jigsaw, Pyramid, and Accelerometer-based interactions. Augment eLearning content with in-course YouTube videos and web pages.
• #15: Author as you always have—content will rearrange itself for the new tablet and mobile views based on the selected theme. Tweak content for a specific device by moving, resizing and editing objects. Maintain content and layout integrity across devices by positioning objects relative to screen borders or other objects. Use the in-product preview to see how your project appears on various screens. Publish as a single project and automatically deliver the most appropriate experience for your learner’s device. Harness the power of mobile devices by enabling gesture support and location aware features.
• #16:   Smart positioning of objects [NEW] Easily define the relative position of objects with respect to screen borders or other objects, maintaining content and layout integrity across devices.   Multidevice previews NEW] View exactly how your content will look on desktops, tablets and mobile phones. Preview your project on stage [ or browser, or use the free Adobe Edge Inspect* app to see how it will look on a physical mobile device.   Responsive Screen Capture [NEW]Create a single screen capture project that works across devices. Adobe Captivate detects screen activity in the recording window and automatically pans to those areas to create screen capture output for the tablet and mobile views as well.     Device aware eLearning delivery [NEW] Publish your responsive project to leading LMSs as a single project. The project will automatically detect your learner’s device and deliver the most appropriate experience for it.   Responsive themes [NEW] Choose from a selection of out-of-the-box responsive themes to render differentiated content for multiple devices. Customize themes to meet your requirements, or create your own. Save themes for reuse across projects.   Gesture-enabled mLearning [NEW] Use the multitouch technology embedded in modern user interfaces to allow learners to tap, scroll, pinch, and swipe their way through courses. Leverage gesture support to enable more instinctive interaction between the learner and the content. Geo-location support [NEW]  Utilize the GPS capabilities of mobile devices to deliver timely, location-aware content to learners. Create assessments that require learners to be at a particular geolocation.   Native support for HTML5 objects [NEW] Now import HTML5 animations into your Adobe Captivate project without requiring any plug-ins. Place animations exactly where you need them, resize if required, and publish effortlessly in the HTML5 format. MinMax object sizing [NEW] Fix the minimum and maximum size of objects so that they do not rescale across device views. This is especially useful for images such as logos, which need to look consistent and be legible at all times.   Scroll for tablets and mobiles [NEW] Easily enable scrolling of content on tablets and mobiles to accommodate content that spills over a single screen.   Best-in-class HTML5 publishing [ENHANCED] Deliver eLearning on the go with full support for scalable HTML5 and new mobile themes and play bar. Deliver courses optimized for mobile devices by publishing eLearning content as HTML5.   HTML5 support for PowerPoint† [EXISTING] Import your PowerPoint project, including text, shapes, audio, and animations, into Adobe Captivate 8 and publish them directly to HTML5.   HTML5 and pause and resume support for Adobe Connect [EXISTING] Publish HTML5 courses to Adobe Connect. Make your content more mobile with the ability to pause and resume anywhere, anytime, and on virtually any device’s browser.    
• #17: Adobe Captivate 8 mobile courses are aware of the device that you are using when you start a course. Captivate will deliver the right course to the right device. In addition to handling the best size for the device screen, Captivate courses automatically coordinate bookmarking (even between different versions of the course) and the learning management server. The course can also take advantage of a new Advanced Action: cpInfoWebOS, to let the course developer further customize the experience for each device.
• #18: Use Adobe Edge Inspect alongside Adobe Captivate 8 to instantly preview your learning materials on mobile devices. Just connect the devices to your local network and use the convenient Preview in Adobe Edge Inspect option from the Captivate preview menu. You’ll see your devices sync and the course will load. Because there is no need to publish to a server, you’ll save loads of time and be certain right away that your courses are mobile ready.
• #19: We use our mobile devices with our hands – and a language of common gestures has evolved to easily navigate on mobile devices. Now Adobe Captivate supports gesture based navigation and control of projects on mobile devices. Your learners can pinch and zoom, swipe to navigate and even hide or show the playbar and table of contents using common touch gestures.
• #20: Combine the power of Adobe Edge Animate and Adobe Captivate 8 to Create and import native HTML5 animations for your eLearning projects.
• #21: Now you can leverage the power of GPS in mobile devices to customize your learning for every need. Give your learners the content that they want, where and when they want it by automatically detecting their current location and customizing the course to best suit them in their current environment.