The document outlines 10 practical tips for enhancing mobile learning, emphasizing the importance of understanding the mobile learner's characteristics, context, and time constraints. Key recommendations include defining curriculum based on consumption, utilizing asynchronous calls to action, and ensuring courses are marketed for mobile. Additionally, it highlights the need for mobile-responsive platforms and leveraging analytics to track engagement.

1. 10 Practical Tips for Making
Mobile Learning Great
Linda Schwaber-Cohen, Skilljar
Originally presented at DevLearn

2. About Skilljar
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Onboarding and Adoption
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3. Agenda
● Characteristics of the
mobile learner
● Framework for
approaching mobile
learning
● 10 Practical Tips for
making mobile learning
great

4. Know Your Audience

5. What characterizes mobile learning and
the learner?
Where is the learner?
What are they thinking about/doing?
How much time do they have?
How large is their device?
What kind of flexibility do they have on
their device?

6. Should everything be on mobile?
72% of people in the US
have a smartphone

7. Are people
learning on
mobile?

8. But why?
What kinds of topics should be consumed on mobile?
Are we encouraging learners to consume content on mobile?
What is the learner experience on mobile? How do people
learn there?

9. Framework for
Mobile Learning
Development
Content
Awareness
Delivery

10. Content
What kinds of topics should be consumed on mobile?
Awareness
Are we encouraging learners to consume content on mobile?
Delivery
What is the learner experience on mobile? How do people
learn there?

11. 10 Practical Tips

12. 1. Define your curriculum by consumption
Step 1: Segment your learning objectives and concepts
Step 2: Determine what’s best to learn in what modality
Step 3: Define which would apply well to mobile

13. 1. Define your curriculum by consumption
Podcast?Video?

14. 2. Utilize calls to action that don’t need to
be completed immediately
What can you teach that doesn’t need to be applied
immediately to be retained?

15. Good examples
Soft skills
Broad concepts
Case studies/stories
Bad examples
Software training
Mathematical
concepts
Complex concepts

16. 3. Remarket CTAs later
Text messages - the learner has opened up their mobile world to
you; take advantage of it.

17. 4. Market courses as mobile

18. 4. Market courses as mobile

19. 5. Short and sweet
Think back:
Where and when are people usually learning on
mobile?

20. 6. Surface time to complete training
Planning
Sets expectations
Improves learner retention

21. 7. Video subtitles
As much as 85%of video on
Facebook is viewed with subtitles!
https://digiday.com/media/silent-world-facebook-video/

22. 8. Leverage Analytics
How many people access content from mobile? What
courses are they viewing?

23. 9. Use a mobile responsive LMS
Don’t slam a square peg into a round hole. If your LMS
isn’t mobile responsive, you’ll get nowhere.

24. 10. Test on mobile

25. Framework for
Mobile Learning
Development
Content
Awareness
Delivery

26. Thank you!
Linda@skilljar.com