Perhaps the scariest decision a CIO has to make is the investment over a particular platform for developing applications and delivering products. In a visit to our e-learning content developer this morning, we had a long conversation over the 'wait-and-see' market sentiment in e-learning on transitioning towards m-learning. While, a few have boasted capabilities in hardware and infrastructure, it is still unknown to everyone the return on content profitability on mobile. The initiatives at McGraw-Hill Canada in developing some content on mobile is much appraised.
While some are going ahead with .Net platform, half others are with Palm, and a few making inroads with Symbian platforms. Besides the entire new paradigm in instructional design for mobile learning, human interface problems, the best win is to invest in research and development on mobile learning both in infra and info-structure for the making it big in five or ten years ahead.
For me, I place my bet in heavy invest in making the learning objects highly reusable for future repuporsing and aggregating. Last but not least, be very strategic about the transitioning to adoption of Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) for low cost, high quality soloutions in content.
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