The leading impediment to implementing mobile learning with the organization is budgeting concerns. In this white paper, Gary Woodill and Chad Udell discuss the three prevailing methods of budgeting and how they’ll affect your company.

Tappestry is a mobile app for iOS and Android that provides a way to make learning an ongoing process by structuring informal learning into something that can be documented, retrievable, and collaborative in order benefit the entire enterprise. By aggregating and socializing individual learning, companies are able to access valuable intellectual property that might otherwise be lost. The power of individual employee knowledge is critical to organizational success, and Tappestry offers the learning methodology and technology to unlock it for the enterprise.

The idea of using mobile computing in agriculture (also known as mAgriculture) is very new in North America, while mAgriculture in the developing world has been known and written about for almost a decade. This paper discusses several reasons why use of mobile technologies among American farmers has only taken off in the last year and a half in the U.S. and Canada. It also surveys and categorizes 60 apps now available in the agricultural marketplace.

Consumer applications of mobile media are more than just another channel to deliver advertising or offer a product or service. They have the enormous potential to completely change the process of consumerism. In this paper, authors Gary Woodill, Ed.D., and Chad Udell discuss four categories of using mobile technology for retrieving information about food: buyer-seller matching, consumer education, product alerts and household self-reliance.

In predicting the use of mobile technology in the agriculture industry for the near future, authors Gary Woodill, Ed.D., and Chad Udell discuss how professionals in farming, fishing and forestry will leverage mobile devices for commercial harvesting, decision support systems, precision agriculture and problem prevention.

The idea of using mobile computing in agriculture (also known as mAgriculture) is very new in North America, while mAgriculture in the developing world has been known and written about for almost a decade. In this bundle of research reports, Float senior analyst Gary Woodill and managing director Chad Udell look at what mobile agriculture is, how farmers, growers and consumers can use mobile technology to track food from farm to table, and what mobile technology means for the future of agriculture.

The path to determining the ROI for mobile learning can be difficult to understand and develop. However, the time is now to begin seriously considering the costs and benefits associated with mobile learning to maximize your return on investment. Less than one-third of organizations make internal learning content available on a mobile device, and less than 10 percent of those companies have formal metrics to evaluate its effectiveness. Get ahead of the curve and calculate your potential ROI with this white paper as a guide.

Complete a requirements analysis in order to guide your enterprise mobile learning strategy. This proven methodology will help you clarify the define, design and implementation phases of what could otherwise be a complex, costly and political process. In this paper, you’ll understand what to keep in mind for your business as a whole, the technical and functional requirements, as well as considerations for your audience.

The same communication devices we use to plan our weekends can also be used to save someone’s life. Throughout this research report, the authors discuss the role mobile phones and tablets in emergency situations and training for emergencies. A research study in central London, for example, showed that residents valued the use of a mobile phone due the speed with which they could contact first responders.

Four out of five medical professionals use smartphones or tablets. Since “healthcare is a fundamentally mobile process,” according to one expert, it’s necessary to include mobile devices as part of your plan if you manage a medical practice or a hospital. This environmental scan discusses a number of apps used for each function.

Mobile technology is at the heart of the do-it-yourself healthcare trend that includes a plethora of fitness apps and devices. Throughout this report, Float surveys more than two dozen apps in wellness, self-care and home care. Finally, the authors help you begin developing your own mobile health solutions.

Mobile learning is providing just-in-time assistance to medical professionals on the job. Doctors and staff can now reference information with a few taps of a finger that used to take much longer when sorting through books and folders. This environmental scan discusses mobile learning, how it can be used as performance support, and looks at 30 apps from which medical professionals could benefit.

This environmental scan discusses the benefits, issues, and challenges of mobile learning in healthcare, and explains the ways in which the devices can be used as continuing education tools through electronic textbooks, podcasts and apps.

Nearly $3 trillion was spent on healthcare in the U.S. in 2011, due in large part to an aging U.S. population. However, Float’s research suggests that consumers are becoming empowered to take charge of their own health. Mobile technology will help facilitate this moving forward. In this paper, you’ll see the factors that will contribute to mobile learning’s rise in the health industry in the near future.

This environmental scan bundle includes all of the research produced by Float Mobile Learning concerned with mobile learning in healthcare.