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Create Your First App
 Take Your Content Mobile by Developing and Distributing Apps

Mobile Learning

With the rapid rise of smart phones and tablet devices, the way people get information is changing overnight. Last year more people accessed the Web using mobile devices than computers, and the rise of the iPad and Android tablets is accelerating that trend. And much of the content people are using isn't on websites. Instead, it's distributed as apps — software programs purchased and downloaded onto mobile devices that may or may not access the Internet once installed.

To reach this vast mobile audience, you need to learn how to create apps and understand how to distribute them using online sites like the iTunes App Store and the Android Marketplace. For a successful app launch, you need to understand the advantages and limitations of an app distribution strategy for your content.

> Learn more about what you need to keep in mind when creating a mobile app

Get Serious About Gaming
How Learning Games Can Boost Engagement with Your Content

Mobile Learning

As children, play is one of the most important ways we learn new skills and practice behaviors. Today, many eLearning experts believe that making play and games a part of your course or training can be a great way for adults to learn as well. After all, why should kids have all the fun?

Monarch Media recently sat down with two top learning game designers, Kinection's Doug Nelson and Vivayic's Doug Kueker, to discuss best practices in developing serious games.

> Read more about serious games

Lights, Camera, Learn!
Five Tips for Using Video in eLearning
By Regina Firpo-Triplett, Claire Schneeberger & Veronica Phillips

Mobile Learning

We’ve all heard the mantra, “Show, don’t tell.” Indeed, research has shown that visually demonstrating a new skill or behavior can be an important component of multi-modal instruction.

That’s one reason why video has become a frequently used tool in instructional designers’ toolkits. Live-action video can enhance eLearning courses, showing learners how to perform new tasks and providing a human element that is lost in animated scenarios. By employing these five tips to know when to use it, how to maximize its effectiveness, and how to keep costs reasonable, you can make video a key part of your next online course.

> Learn five key tips for using video in eLearning
> FAQ: What video strategy can you use to be cross-device compatible?

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Monarch Media Named to Inc. 500|5000 List

In September CEO Claire Schneeberger attended the Inc. 500|5000 Conference, which recognizes the fasted growing privately owned companies in the U.S. Monarch Media, which ranked no. 2,308 on Inc. magazine's list, joined companies like Spirit Airlines, Vizio, Honest Tea, Dunkin Donuts and Metrokane.

> Read the press release (PDF)
> View the complete Inc. 5000 list

Monarch Media to Present at DevLearn 2011 Conference

DevLearn 11: I'm Speaking

Monarch Media and partner Vivayic will be presenting at the DevLearn 2011 Conference, held Nov. 2-4 in Las Vegas. If you'll be attending DevLearn, please come see us for the session titled "Let's Play … and Learn! Tools for Rapid Online Learning Game Development." If you'd like to meet with us at DevLearn, please fill out our Web form — we'd love to see you there!

Monarch Donates Expertise to e-Learning for Kids

Monarch Media and the e-Learning for Kids Foundation (EFK) have released a new online course to train parents, teachers, and school administrators in how to use EFK’s courseware to help kids ages 5-12 learn. The training, which Monarch Media developed pro bono as part of its commitment to give back to the global community, will help EFK achieve its mission of opening doors to education worldwide through engaging, free online courses.

> Read the press release (PDF)
> See the training in action

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