Held at the PfPC ADL WG meeting on 7 Nov. 2012 in Vienna. The presentation shows the design principles that we have applied during the development of the Mobler Cards app.

1. Designing for Mobile Learning
The Mobler Cards Experience
Dr. Christian Glahn

2. Our Research Challenge

3. Mobler Cards
Flash Card Learning
for Smart Phones

4. This presentation is about the
Design Challenges
we faced

5. 2 Types of
Design Challenges

6. Common Challenges
Are for the App Design

7. Specific Challenges
Are for the Instructors

8. The Common Challenges

9. Technology

10. If you go for mobile you always ask yourself
iOS or Android?

11. HTML
or maybe Web-based?

12. We wanted all
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13. Interoperability

14. Interaction Design
is not all about small screens

15. Designing Interaction for Multiple Platforms
• Interface consistency
• Intuitive processes

16. Same interaction on all
platforms
Avoid “iOS apps” on Android
and vice versa

17. Task Centered Design

18. We did not want
just another App

19. we wanted
LMS Integration

20. • Lightweight protocol
• Optimized for mobile data processing
• Non-continuous interaction
• Platform independence

21. • Live data from the LMS
use of question pools in courses
• All management is left to the LMS

22. SCORM
IMS QTI
• SCORM compliant concepts

23. Mobility

24. The benefits of
mobile technologies
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25. Always within reach
Always ready for use
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26. How to leverage the
benefits of mobile
technology for learning?

27. Magic

28. What You Cannot See
&
What You Don’t Want to See

29. •Logging in •Synchronizing
•Being online •Language
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30. • Authenticate only once • No manual updating
• Data and functions on • Use user preferences
the mobile

31. The Specific Challenge

32. Content

33. Mobler Cards
can immediately use existing
question pools

34. But ...

35. Content for practicing on mobiles
works differently than
testing on desktops

36. Example
PfPC Course
Building Defence Institutions
2008

37. Try to remember
this for longer
than 5”

38. Focus on the Answer
Not on the Question

39. True-or-false items
are not fun after
answering them
for the first time

40. Support thinking
Not guessing

41. Some items might
be too easy
or too complex

42. Avoid answer patterns
The leaners will learn the
pattern not the subject

43. Trick questions
are just like
true or false

44. Allow progress
Not quick wins

45. Christian Glahn
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