Challenges for Mobile Learning in Security and Defense Organizations

International Relations and Security Network (ISN)

International Relations and Security Network (ISN)

Challenges forMobile Learning in Security and Defense Organizations

Christian GlahnMobile Instructional Design

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Training and ADL

Training and ADL(the old perspective)

Desktop

Browser

Clean Desk

What would happen if he has to move quickly?

Sitting

Straight

Today’s Training and ADL Practice in Security and Defense Organizations

Mostly learning facts

Content Centric

Multimedia

Summative Assessment

Today’s Training and ADL Practice in Security and Defense Organizations

Mostly learning facts

Content Centric

Multimedia

Summative Assessment

Well supported by

SCORM

The world has changed

The world has changed

No Desk

No Laptop

MobileMessy

Quick Always online(almost)

Relaxed

Challenges for Mobile Learning in

Security and Defense Organizations

High Demand of Higher-order Procedural Skills and Knowledge

Complexity of international support and cooperation

Desktops are often unavailable

Content is difficult to train for complexity

Complex collaboration and cooperation

Militaries Supply Their Soldiers with Smart Phones

Not only for ADL

Makes a good vehicle for ADL

Traditional ADL won’t work – too desktop oriented

Need for Continuous Training, Repetition, and Timely Updates

Gaps between training and application

Higher-order competences are hard to drill

Context of application

Assimilation of knowledge and skills

Greater flexibility and mobility

New Forms of Assessment

IMS QTI won’t work out of the box

Good for testing facts

Cumbersome for mobile use

No support for assessing complex processes

Training becomes Performance Support

Facts are easy for just-in-time delivery

Anytime access to reference material

Implications for training facts

Wider Audiences for Security Learning

Real Time Strategic Information

Mobile social media

Security issues become of wider concern

Need for timely and contextualized data

Wisdom of the crowd

Ongoing work on Mobile ADL

Mobile ADL InitiativeADL Mobile Learning Handbook

Judy Brown & Jason Haag (2011)

Technology adoption

Devices

Technology constraints

Content adaptation

http://www.adlnet.gov/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/MLHandbook20110809.pdf

Mobile Research at ISN(started about 2 months ago)

Strategic forecasting of technology availability

Integration with existing ADL infrastructure

Mobile Demonstrators

Christian Glahn

International Relations and Security Network (ISN) ETH ZurichSwitzerland

www.isn.ethz.ch

@phish108 @ISN_Zurich

www.slideshare.net/phish108

11th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning

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