An overview of five common mistakes made in developing mobile learning content - and demonstrations of ways to implement more effectively. Understand and prevent the most common errors as you transition to mobile content for your eLearners. LINK TO THE RECORDING OF THE SEMINAR: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=register_no_session&id=2581778&loc=en_us

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Mobile Learning – Five Mistakes to Avoid
Dr. Allen Partridge | Sr. Technology Evangelist, eLearning

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Our Session today will focus on practical advice for avoiding common mistakes
We’ll see definitions of the mistakes, then learn ways to avoid them
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Five Common Mistakes
How to avoid them in practice
Questions & Answers

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Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning
1: File Size is Way Too Big
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I’m just a little guy. I can’t
remember that much!

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Avoiding the Mistake
1: Strategies to Reduce File Size
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Video & Sound Optimized
Appropriate Sized Images
Lean on Shapes
Bite Sized Content

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Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning
2: All Devices are NOT the Same
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We aren’t all iPads and
even iPads change sizes
and orientation.

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Avoiding the Mistake
2: Responsive Design Saves the Day
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What is Responsive?
Breakpoints and Degrading Gracefully
Viewport Sizes
Inheritance & Project Design

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What changes for eLearning authors and developers?
How do we craft learning for mobile?
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Responsive Web Design vs. Responsive eLearning

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What are Breakpoints?
It’s all in the sliding

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What is Viewport Size?
http://viewportsizes.com/mine/

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Captivate’s Law of Inheritance ;)

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Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning
3: Didn’t Realize that Context is Hugely Important in Mobile Learning
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If it’s not authentic and
relevant, your learners
will disappear!

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Avoiding the Mistake
3: Develop learning that works when and where your learner works
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Leverage the Environment
Facilitate Performance Support
Informal – Personalized Experience
Facilitate Search & Repetition

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Location Aware Learning
The ultimate field guide
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Wow! That water-borne
insects field guide
popped up at the right
time to handle these
riverside apartments.

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Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning
4: Ignoring Device Affordances & Usability
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When you touch and swipe my
screen, you touch my pixel heart.

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Avoiding the Mistake
4: Designing for the device affordances and usability
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Touch
Rotation
Location
Communication

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What differentiates mobile learning?
Is there significant added value in making eLearning available on mobile devices?
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Learn
anywhere
Learn
anytime
Move
while
learning
Location
becomes
a tool
Touch
computin
g
Tilt or flip
Interact
with
others
create
images &
video

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Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning
5: eLearning to mLearning Direct Transfer Disasters
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Gosh – this course is
complicated. It would
be a lot easier to do
back at my office desk.

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Avoiding the Mistake
5: Plan your Mobile Course & Consider the Differences
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Mobile is Learner Centered
Mobile is Context Aware
Mobile is More Intimate & Personal
On Demand not On Command

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• Email me: allenp@adobe.com

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