Mobile Learning Solutions: How to Get Started

WebinarMobile Learning Solutions: How to Get Started

Presented By: Deval ShahJay Patadiya

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Enterprise Mobility: Shape of Things to Come

Mobile Learning Solutions: mLearning

Currently Available Mobile Apps For Learning and Teaching

Want to Develop Your Own App? How to get started

Challenges and Best Practices for mLearning

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Enterprise Mobility: Shape of Things to Come





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Future of Mobile Apps

Source – MobileFuture.org

The US market for Mobile Learning products and services reached $958.7 million in 2010 and expected to reach $1.82 billion by 2015.

Asia Mobile Learning Market Soared to $2.6 Billion in 2012 and expected to grow to 6.8 Billion by 2017.

eLearning Revenues in Africa Will Double to $512.7 Million by 2016.

Worldwide Mobile Learning Market to Reach $9.1 billion by 2015.

Top four early adopter countries of mLearning are US, Japan, England, Australia. Emerging high growth rate markets are China, India, Indonesia, & Brazil.

Future of mLearning

Source - Ambient Insight’s Survey

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A Enterprise Mobility: Shape of Things to Come





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Anywhere & Anytime: Provides learner the ability to assimilate learning anywhereand at any time.

Flexibility: Gives the instructor more mobility for creation of on the spot & on thefield learning & test material.

Appealing: Smart phone users increasing day by day and it helps to attract moreand more users.

Remain competitive: it is essential to make eLearning applications accessiblethrough mobile devices to remain competitive in the market.

Reduce Operating Cost: Bring Your Own Device(BYOD) concept helps theorganizations to reduce the infrastructure cost.

Advantages of mLearning

Types of mLearning

VLE Based LearningVirtual Learning Environments include creating such apps and web based VLE access

Content DeliveryThis includes podcasting and mSCORM package delivery

Instant Test ResultsMobile devices can act as a quick way to create user tests and record the test achievement.

Just in time trainingDeals with an individual’s need for an answer to an immediate problem.

Collaborative LearningUsing Social Networking Apps and Learning in a Group

Augmented RealityDigital devices equipped with camera and reality browsers

Learning SupportThis can include campus maps for students, dictionaries, timetables etc.

eLearning Games Learning Games using extensive graphics and animations.

Usage & Users of mLearning

Private Organizations & Business Houses

– Induction Training Materials.

– Manufacturing Process Training.

– Organization Operations Training.

– Sales Process Training.

– Product Usage Training

– Hospitalities

Education Industry

– Education Institutes, Colleges, Universities, Students, Tutors etc.

Hospitals & HealthCare Companies

– New Medical Equipment usage Training.

– Training to Doctors & Nurses for new methods of curing.

mLearning User Statistics

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Examples of mLearning – Apps Developed by Cygnet

iVocabulary

Learn English

iFeed App

Learning App for doctors

Examples of mLearning – Apps Developed by Cygnet

mLearning in hospital Pre- School Game

Learn about Whales Story Telling App

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Want to Develop Your Own App? How to get started…

― Short and to the point content

― Content should be light

― Keep it simple

― Shorter duration

― Smaller chunks of context-independent content

― Concept of fun learning – Edutainment

― Distributed Learning

― Limit Graphical Content

Steps for Creating/Implementing mLearning Solutions

Determine Objectives & Target Audience

Design Considerations


Development Considerations

― Decide the mLearning Platform/OS (i.e. iOS, iPod, Android, BB, Windows Phone 7 & 8, PhoneGap, HTML5 etc)

― eBooks requires specific ePub formats and SDK

― Native Application Vs Browser Based Applications

― Decide Database Planning – Cloud Vs Private Hosted

― Online Dynamic Content Delivery or Offline Mode

― DITA standard based content

― Decide Communication Mechanism – SMS, Chat, E-Mail, Video Calls, Push Notifications & Voice

― Interactivity Mechanism

― Integration with Payment Gateways

― Content Security


Tools Considerations

― Authoring & Publishing Tools for mLearning

― Specific Industry Compliance

Implementation Considerations

― Security & Support

―Device Considerations – BYOD Vs Distribution

―Organization Wide Policies

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Best Practices for mLearning

Best Practices

Prototyping

Selection of Right Technology Vendor

Media Considerations

Limit Use of Data Entry

Authentication of users and device prior to granting access

Technical Challenges

Small device screen and key size is not very convenient

Places where mobile phone signals are not available, hampers your learning.

Process of converting content from web to mobile is not easy

Battery life of the device plays an important role

Hovering is limited in touch based devices

No Support for shortcut keys

Mobile Device have their own volume controls

Content security by the author

Educational Challenges

Difficult to measure effectiveness of learning

No demographic boundary

Access to and use of technology in developing countries

Different from the conventional accepted modes of learning

Challenges for mLearning

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