Google Labs has released a beta version of a new mobile learning creation tool, called Breadcrumb. This tool enables users to create mobile simulations and branched content – making their application work with only three additions to plain text. Its developers claim that Breadcrumb is ‘infinitely scalable, easy to create and readable on internet-enabled smart-phones or computers’.

Comment: Another authoring tool comes on the market – this time for the state-of-the-art ‘e-learning via mobile phone market’. It’s interesting to note that the people behind this tool are from the ‘digital industries’ stable rather than the traditional LMS/authoring tools developers that the e-learning world has known for many years.

Could e-learning be changing into something other than e-learning? Or is it merely becoming ‘mainstream’ (whatever that might be)? Discuss…