There is No escaping Mobile Learning; not in today’s day and age. With the massive proliferation of smartphones and tablets, and ever increasing bandwidths and speed of mobile networks – the entire planet has gone mobile quite literally. In this situation, leveraging mobile devices for learning in workplaces is a great opportunity to enhance learning and performance.

1. No Escaping Mobile Learning
Amit Garg Abhijit Kadle
@gargamit100 @abhijitkadle

2. Upside Learning
8+ years in eLearning
150+ clients in 13 countries
Our offerings
UpsideLMS | Upside2Go | Custom Learning Solutions
28 awards & recognition

3. Upside Learning
Upside Learning Solutions blog
www.upsidelearning.com/blog
eBooks and Whitepapers
• Mobile Learning
• Learning Management Systems
• Game-based Learning
Research endeavors
• ASTD Research
• Brandon Hall Group
• Towards Maturity

4. Presenters
Amit Garg
Founder & Director – Custom Learning Solutions
12 years in elearning domain
Channel, Logistics, Ops (Auto, Process)
Engg, MBA, Certificate in ID
Doting father, Hindi music
Abhijit Kadle
Sr. Manager – Instructional Design
15 years in multimedia / 12 in eLearning / 10 in ID
Engg (Mech.)
Gamer, Lego geek

5. Agenda
1 Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
2 Getting Started Quickly

6. Poll # 1
Which of these is mobile learning?
– Bite sized information/content
– Just in time access to information/ experts
– Mobile devices enabled with tools to help job performance
– Collaboration using mobile devices
– Audio / Video conferencing
– Location based services

7. Mobile Learning?
Source: http://www.mlearnopedia.com/mlearncon/

8. Mobile Learning?
Source: http://www.mlearnopedia.com/mlearncon/

9. Mobile Learning?
“ mLearning is about augmenting our
”
learning – and our performance
Clark Quinn

10. Mobile Learning?
“ mLearning is about augmenting our
”
learning – and our performance
Clark Quinn

11. Six Key Drivers of
Mobile Learning

12. Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
A Growing Mobile Workforce
Source: IDC study, Worldwide Mobile Worker Population 2011-2015 Forecast

13. Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
A Growing Mobile Workforce
• Advantages
– Increased productivity
– Happier knowledge workers
– Better Organizational Agility
• Challenges
– Communication/Collaboration/Motivation
– Managing/Monitoring Performance
– Training/Coaching

14. Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
A Growing Mobile Workforce
• Training focus : Push to Pull
– Mobile fits very well
• Examples
– Sales Time and Expense Sheets
– Video Calls/Conferencing
– Order Entry and Tracking
– CRM Integration

15. Poll # 2
What mobile device/s do you use?
– Smart Phone
– Feature Phone
– Tablet
– None

16. Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
Shift in Computing
Source: Business Insider

17. Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
Shift in Computing
Source: Qualcomm, 2011

18. Poll # 3
Which of these do you use your mobile phone for?
– Search
– Email
– News
– Maps
– Social Media

19. Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
Personal Behavior Patterns Changing
• Maps - Performance Support in our daily lives
• NoMoPhobia

20. Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
Personal Behavior Patterns Changing
• Mobile devices are being used for
Source: go-globe.com

21. Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
Personal Behavior Patterns Changing
• Baby boomers’ use of mobile phones
Source: go-globe.com Source: emarketer

22. Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
21st Century Workforce Demographics
• Generation definition
Gen X Gen Y Gen Z
Born 1966-1976 1977-1994 1995-2012
Coming of Age 1988-1994 1998-2006 2013-2020

23. Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
21st Century Workforce Demographics
• Generation Y or the Millennials
– more tech-savvy than any previous generation
• Generation Z
– a ‘search’ mentality; have played games
Different generations understand and behave
with technology differently

24. Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
When Do We Actually Learn?
• Adults learn differently – purpose?
• Event based training model may not work

25. Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
When Do We Actually Learn?
• Adults learn differently – purpose?
• Event based training model may not work
• There’s an opportunity to space learning

26. Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
When Do We Actually Learn?
• Gottfredson’s Moments of Learning Need
– When learning for the first time
– When wanting to learn more
– Trying to remember
– When things change
– When something goes wrong
Mobile fits these situations very well

27. Six Key Drivers of Mobile Learning
Doing More With Less
• Prominent recently, but a perpetual desire
• Mobile brings productivity
– Fits in staff’s ‘idle time’
– Helps response times

28. Can You Escape Mobile Learning?
A Growing
Mobile
Workforce
Doing More Shift in
With Less Computing
Perfect
When Do
Storm
Personal
We Actually Behavior
Learn? Patterns
21st Century Changing
Workforce
Demographics

29. Poll # 4
What stage are you in mLearning implementation?
– Wondering
– Grappling
– Enjoying
– Watching

30. Getting
Started Quickly

31. Getting Started Quickly
• Just do it!
• Strategy can come later
• Before you start
A clear business need
A receptive audience
Enabling technology
• Aim for low hanging fruits

32. Getting Started Quickly
• Look for content that lends itself to conversion for
access on mobile devices
Source: http://mlearn.adlnet.mobi/

33. Getting Started Quickly
• Look for job situations where the provision of ‘just-in-
time’ information can improve performance

34. Getting Started Quickly
• Think about providing tools to ease job performance, not
just content

35. Ready to
Start?

36. Upcoming Webinars
• Busting Mobile Learning Myths
• Creating a Successful mLearning Strategy
• Augmented Reality in the Workplace

37. Let’s Meet
• Learnx, Melbourne: 28-29 Aug’12
• mobiMOOC: 8-30 Sep‘12
• WOL, Birmingham: Oct ‘12
• CLO Summit, Mumbai: Nov‘12
• Learning Technologies, London: Jan’13

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