Presentation held at the Learning in Context Workshop, 26.03.2012 in Brussels.

1. International Relations and Security Network (ISN)

2. International Relations and Security Network (ISN)
Challenges for
Mobile Learning in
Security and Defense Organizations
Christian Glahn
Mobile Instructional Design

3. About the ISN

4. The ISN is an
Open Access Information Service
for
International Relations and Security
Professionals

5. Partner Network
243 ISN partners worldwide and growing

6. Main User Countries

7. ISN Activities
Content and Analysis Digital Library
Communities and Partners Training and ADL

8. Training and ADL

9. Training and ADL
(the old perspective)
What would happen if he has to move quickly?

10. Today’s Training and ADL Practice in
Security and Defense Organizations
Mostly learning facts
Content Centric
Multimedia
Summative Assessment

11. Today’s Training and ADL Practice in
Security and Defense Organizations
Mostly learning facts
Content Centric Well supported by
Multimedia SCORM
Summative Assessment

12. The world has changed

13. The world has changed

14. Challenges for
Mobile Learning in
Security and Defense
Organizations

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. Training becomes
Performance Support
Facts are easy for just-in-time delivery
Anytime access to reference material
Implications for training facts

20. Wider Audiences for Security Learning

21. Real Time
Strategic Information
Mobile social media
Security issues become of wider concern
Need for timely and contextualized data
Wisdom of the crowd

22. Ongoing work on Mobile ADL

23. Mobile ADL Initiative
ADL 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

24. Mobile Research at ISN
(started about 2 months ago)
Strategic forecasting of technology availability
Integration with existing ADL infrastructure
Mobile Demonstrators

25. Christian Glahn
International Relations and Security Network (ISN)
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
www.isn.ethz.ch
@phish108 @ISN_Zurich
www.slideshare.net/phish108

26. 11th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning
mLearn 2012 - MOBILE LEARNING IN CONTEXT
Helsinki, Finland - 16-18 October 2012
- Call for Papers Submissions until 30. May 2012
- Call for Workshops Submissions until 30. April 2012

27. International Relations and Security Network (ISN)