Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
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Trendlines MOOCs on the Rise Mobile Intelligence On a Quick Upswing About one-third of the companies in an Aberdeen Group research project said that they were engaged in either mobile business intelligence (MBI) or mobile decision support (MDS) initiatives. MBI is defned as the activities and technologies that enable mobile access to management information from smartphones and tablets. Fully 52% of the respondents believe that MBI can bring a competitive advantage to their companies, and 27% say that they still need to increase the productivity of mobile employees. Other takeaways from the Aberdeen study: 78% of the leading companies believe that optimization of the data presentation for smartphones and tables is one key to its value. >> Twice as many "leaders" companies as "followers" have realized that the efectiveness of MDS increase when they equip their mobile decision-makers with the ability to share individual perspectives and opinions with others. >> Leader support of Apple iPad has doubled while support for Android tablets has tripled. In December 2011, 43% of leading companies using tablets supported Apple iPad for MBI; today, 91% do so. Comparative Android numbers: 19% in December 2011, 61% today. >> Adoption is still dominated by organizations that are most comfortable with technology: 47% are software vendors or providers of I.T. consulting and services. >> Security is paramount, using password authentication, encryption of data in transmission and remote device lock-and-wipe. —Source: Aberdeen Group >> The number of Massively Open Online Courses available in 2013 has more than doubled over 2012. Major providers of MOOCs are Coursera, Udacity and EdX, all of which ofer certifcates. Coursera is the largest with $22 million in funding, 210 courses and 37 participating schools including Stanford University and the University of California at Irvine. Thomas Friedman, co-author of "That Use to Be Us," and New York Times columnist shares why MOOCs are vital to education. "Institutions of higher learning must move … from a model of 'time served' to a model of 'stuf learned.' Because increasingly the world does not care what you know. Everything is on Google. The world only cares, and will only pay for, what you can do with what you know." The MOOCs revolution, Friedman claims is real. As proof, he points to a blended model that was used for an electronics course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last fall. "Preliminary numbers indicate that those passing the class went from nearly 60 percent to about 90 percent." The frst MOOC, "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge," was ofered late in 2008. The movement's breakthrough event, however, came in 2011 when a Stanford University MOOC attracted more than 150,000 online enrollees. —Sources: New York Times, nerdwallet 118 120 100 Number of MOOCs offered vs. Year 80 91% of companies support using iPads for MBI. 61% support Androids. 60 40 20 0 18 April / May 2013 Elearning! 55 19 2011 2012 2013