Your Learners are Mobile. Are You Keeping Up? Monica SavageSteven Westmoreland #mpsavage#swestmoreland .

Your Learners are Mobile. Are You Keeping Up?

Monica Savage Steven Westmoreland #mpsavage

#swestmorelandwww.obsidianlearning.com

Puzzle, Story and Mobile Phones

• Split in groups of 3 – 4 • Choose an image from your cellphone, share it with the

group to create a group story. • The logic and flow of the story should need very few

words.

How does our story align with your experience?

Mobile Learning Design

When going mobile:

• Analyze users – their tasks, environment, places, times, lighting, noise levels

• Test new mlearning content with real users in their environment with their devices

• Test for engagement as well as for accuracy of delivery

• Ask the learners to participant in creating the content

• Use games when appropriate. Fun and useful is the focus here, not the learning aspect.

Four C’s of Mobile Capability

• Content – presenting information• Capture – capturing information• Compute – individual captures the data and enters it,

the device processes it• Communicate – Connect and communicate with others;

informal/social learning

Four C’s of Mobile CapabilityExamples

Role Content Capture Compute Communicate

Sales Product sheet Sales pitch Product pricing

Product expert

Marketing Sample Ad Customer Interview

Competitive Ad Costs

PR Company

Executive Strategy Presentation for practice

Performance Dashboard

Other execs

Field Engineer

Troubleshooting guide

Abnormal performance

Reliability factor

CoP

Courtesy of Clark Quinn

Learning Outcome vs. Mobile Application

Learning Outcome Design Approach Mobile Application

Memorization of information

Direct Instruction, drill and practice

Wikis, flashcards, quizzes, games

Carry out a task based on a procedure

Repeat practice Checklists, performance support tools, simulation, scenario

Discovery of new information

Discovery learning Branching scenarios, augmented reality, customized learning based on personalized activity

Courtesy of Chad Udell

Helpful Resources

• Clark Quinn – Designing mlearning• Chad Udell – Learning Everywhere• Chad Udell and Gary Woodwill – Matering Mobile

Learning• DigitalTrend.com• TED.com• cc.mlearnopedia.com

Mobile Learning Development

Challenges:

• Long publishing times• Poor platform and browser compatibility• Clunky drag-n-drop interactions• Lousy version control• Cumbersome & time consuming revision processes• Inconsistencies in display – develop vs. deploy• Complex and overwhelming application menus• Long learning curves

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