From the time of the Hot Lava Mobile acquisition more than a year ago, OutStart worked with forward-thinking customers to identify and solve the challenges facing the mobile learning industry. These included, for example, concerns that organizations needed to mandate and commit to a particular device to deploy mobile learning to a broad group of individuals or fear that mobile learning program required new staff and/or skills to integrate and operate.

The result of this work is the latest version of Hot Lava Mobile, which makes mobile learning easy and accessible for any organization. Learners, developers, and administrators can now tap into new features and benefits that enable a broad range of mobile learning and priority communication uses.

Hot Lava Mobile enables individuals to access material where and when it is convenient without mandating the use of a particular device for learners.

Hot Lava Mobile makes it easy for learning professionals and subject-matter experts to develop, manage, and deliver mobile learning to anyone in the organization. Benefits for developers include easy authoring - anyone familiar with MS PowerPoint can now author and publish mobile learning, including quizzes, assessments, and polls, without training through the new PowerPoint developer plug-in.

From an administrator perspective, organizations are able to easily integrate mobile learning into their corporate environments with Hot Lava Mobile SaaS deployments. One of the benefits is flexible deployment - Hot Lava Mobile can be deployed as a standalone server to add mobile-only functionality or integrated with a corporate LMS to add mobile learning to any learning management system.

Massood Zarrabian, President and CEO, OutStart comments, "OutStart would like to thank our customers who worked with us to identify and solve some of the industry's most significant challenges for developing and deploying mobile learning programs. Through their involvement, we have the solutions to real-world deployment challenges that have hindered the broad-scale adoption of mobile learning initiatives."