Mobile devices and wireless networks are booming. According to Gartner Inc., more than 50 percent of professional notebooks will have wireless LAN (WLAN) capability by the end of 2004. In the same time period, Gartner says that through WLAN hot spots, traveling knowledge-based workers will be able to gain 30 minutes of productivity daily. With organizations increasingly deploying wireless networks and providing their mobile workers with on-the-go technologies to maintain in-office levels of productivity, chief learning officers have a new tool they can leverage to get learning and knowledge to the field.

According to Charlie Gillette, CEO and president of Knowledge Anywhere, there is a growing rumble around mobile learning, or m-learning. He called m-learning the next phase for the e-learning segment—not a replacement, but a derivative of technology-based learning tools.

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