The Network Sense

One of my favorite quotations is from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939):
It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
… or in less zen-like terms: keep it simple, stupid (KISS).
The more I am using the iPhone app store, [...]

Cloud learning is a concept being promoted by Judy Breck and plays a critical role in our concept of mobile learning. From one of her blog posts:
It is worth using this analogy in understanding that educational resources online have not yet managed to move much toward the cloud phase. Most online education stuff is embedded [...]

With the iPhone 3G release, mobile learning has been top-of-mind at Praxis Language. Internally, we have been using Woodill and Cunningham-Reid’s definition as a basis:
True mobile learning is personalized learning that unites the learner’s context with cloud computing using a mobile device.
As we evaluate how to improve our personalized learning system we have been comparing [...]

I am a big fan of Umair Hague and his thinking on new media economics have played an important role in our strategic thinking.
That said, I think it is important to not universally apply Hague’s thinking to all types of media as there are some assumptions in his thinking.
For example, he states in his recent [...]

There is a good quote from a Mobile Learning report just out from Brandon Hall Research:
True mobile learning is personalized learning that unites the learner’s context with cloud computing using a mobile device.
This is very much in line with our thinking on Personalized Learning Systems here at Praxis Language and offers a framework on a [...]