Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of eXact learning solutions North America, will attend the launch of eXact Mobile 2.0, which has new applets for the iPhone, Blackberry, and iPad devices. He is scheduled to present a seminar at the Conference on "Ten Commandments of Enterprise-Learning Content Management in the iPad Tablet Era".

"The iPad not only makes a 'mobile-learning machine' affordable and accessible, but it also removes the previous limits and frustration of poor visualization and connectivity", believes Cardinali. "The iPad is both effective and efficient in terms of pedagogic soundness and semantic richness."

"I don't know or think it's going be the iPad - most likely Android-based alternatives - but I am sure that the use of tablet-based learning will explode in the next months with a host of location and identity-management features being built in to the hardware", he continues. "This will make location-based, context-aware, learning-content personalisation available and affordable, overcoming the costs or hurdles involved in 'mobile learning 1.0'."

Cardinali who, in addition to his role at eXact learning solutions, sits on the Board of Directors of the IMS Global Learning Consortium and is chair of the European Learning Industry Group, will be presenting these views in more detail in session 411 of Learning 2010. It takes place on Monday, 25 October from 2:45-3:45pm.

In addition, at Learning 2010, eXact learning solutions will unveil the latest version of its eXact Mobile software, which now includes iPad-related features, such as

• tracking and synchronization of learning materials offline (upload, download, check status, and so on)
• SCORM tracking (SCORM 1.2)
• content versioning and centralization
• managing contents that can be loaded from any platform
• extensibility to third-party services and applications
• light content downloads
• specific authoring, models, and templates for the mobile platform
• geo-location based learning

Organized by Elliott Masie, and co-hosted by The Learning CONSORTIUM and the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), Learning 2010 has already attracted over 1,500 delegates.