Having spent the last few weeks badgering the providers of rapid e-learning authoring tools to bring forward their plans to offer options to output content that can be played on a Blackberry, when offered an upgrade by my phone company the other week, I went for an iPhone!
So now I have a personal interest for looking for ways in which this device (albeit not a mainstream corporate mobile option in the UK at least) can be used to facilitate learning.
I was reminded that Webex has recently added the ability to take part in a web-conference from an iPhone, but not being a current user of this platform - and given the fact that competing Flash-based web-conferencing systems couldn't run on the non-Flash enabled iPhone - I was interested to find a solution that was designed specifically for the iPhone, complete with its own iPhone App.
Touch Meeting from web-conferencing provider, Persony, allows you to host or attend a web-conference from your iPhone (or a computer). Two video clips show this in action.
It is possible to sign up for this service free of charge (but you are restricted to just three participants), although this would be OK for periodic small coaching sessions.
The solution is US-based too, so at this point in time, for an international audience anyhow, I think this is just a great taste of what is possible. Hopefully it won't be too long before other vendors develop their own solutions and if Apple ever moves to offer Flash on the iPhone, many other other major corporate web-conferencing provider will be able to bolt on this platform.
Although I wouldn't see a need for a webinar to be delivered solely to an iPhone platform, on those occasions when a participant was travelling, they may rather attend from their iPhone (accepting some of the limitations posed by the size of the device), than miss the session altogether.
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