With smartphones becoming commonplace and new devices such as tablets skyrocketing in popularity, the interest in mobile learning has begun to heat up as well.

“Blended learning can help address many critical business problems such as supporting global employee learning, reducing travel and subsistence expenses as well as increasing productivity in a competitive environment,” says Christophe Ferrandou, »

New research shows that spending on employee development rose 9.5 percent to an average of $800 per learner in 2011 as organizations moved to combat the current skills gap in the labor market.

The research fond U.S.

Half of smartphone users have now scanned a QR (mobile barcode) code at least once.

As QR codes pop up in more places, awareness of them is growing, and many users seem to learn what they do before learning what they are called.

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Safari Books Online has acquired Massachusetts-based Threepress Consulting Inc,, makers of the Ibis Reader online E-pub reading system.

“Informal learning is not better than formal training; there is just a whole lot more of it. It’s 95 percent of workplace learning.”

That’s what Harold Jarche contends in his popular learning blog (www.jarch.com).

The A.S.T.D. 2011 State of the Industry report found that U.S. companies spent approximately $171.5 billion on employee training in 2010, including training staff salaries, administrative costs and delivery expenses.