Chad Udell is the managing director at Float Learning, a consultingfirm that combines strategy, mobile app development, and eLearning to guideorganizations by harnessing the power of mobile learning.

Chad has a B.S. in Graphic Design from Bradley University(where he is also an adjunct faculty member for the Interactive MediaDepartment), with deep experience in large-scale web design and development.Chad and his team have done some impressive educational interactive design workas well (see what they built for the AlderPlanetarium to get an idea of some of that work), and released some greatapps on the iTunesstore and AndroidMarketplace.

Chad is currently running ASTD's Essentials of Mobile Learningcourse along with Jeff Tillett.Chad will be blogging here this month, focusing on mobile learning. You cancatch up with Chad and the Float team over on their blog at floatlearning.com/blog, and if you'reinterested in web design and development, check in with his personal blog at visualrinse.com. Chad will be leading a fullday workshop on prototyping at the upcoming ASTD TechKnowledge Conferencein January.

Oh, and if you think Chad is only a tech guy, he also brewshis own beer (he prefers nice citrusy IPAs) and is pretty good behind a grillor smoker.

Join Chad as he explores topics this month on mobilelearning strategy and how to get started on the road to mobile learning.