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The Accidental Mobile Instructional Designer #mlearncon
Cammy Bean shares her journey from becoming an accidental instructional designer to intentionally creating eLearning courses for mobile devices. She emphasizes the importance of integrating learning into daily workflows and ensuring content is accessible on various devices. The document also discusses how learners are naturally using mobile technologies and the need for instructional designers to adapt their approaches accordingly.
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- 1. The Accidental (Mobile)Instructional Designer #mLearnCon 2014 Cammy Bean, VP of Learning Design Kineo
- 2. Once upon atime… When I grow up, I want to be… A singer! A writer! A teacher
- 3. But instead, Ibecame an instructional designer. What’s that, Mommy?
- 4. And I (sortof) grew up.
- 5. It was allcompletely by accident.
- 6. Along the way,I designed hundreds of eLearning courses.
- 7. Until one day,someone said, “Hey, this needs to run on tablets and phones.”
- 9. As I’ve moved fromaccidental to intentional, I like to eat —and talk— about pie!
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- 14. Learning Creative TechnologyBusiness The well-roundedL&D professional needs the whole pie.
- 15. Those who doit all, look like this…
- 16. …although the realitymay look more like this. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/creative_tools/4324925700/
- 17. What’s your favoritepiece of pie? What’s your sweet spot?
- 18. To continue thefood metaphor…let’s stop thinking like bartenders…
- 19. And start thinkinglike mixologists.
- 20. Said in variousforms by lots of people. When you embed learning in the workflow, when you put the information people need at their fingertips, you move from FORMAL solutions to a more NATURAL learning that’s in the FLOW.
- 21. The myth ofmobile “learning”.
- 22. Jennifer Neibert, inLearning Solutions Magazine http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1416/mobile-learning-for-talent-development- critical-questions-for-learning-leaders Your learners are already mobile learners. Whether they’re listening to podcasts at the gym or accessing a Lynda.com tutorial about HTML tags while in line for coffee, they are using mobile technologies to learn.
- 23. Jennifer Neibert, inLearning Solutions Magazine http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1416/mobile-learning-for-talent-development- critical-questions-for-learning-leaders Your learners are already mobile learners. Whether they’re listening to podcasts at the gym or accessing a Lynda.com tutorial about HTML tags while in line for coffee, they are using mobile technologies to learn.
- 24. So how doyou actually use your devices?
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- 28. Find (the answersto burning questions). When did Conan the Barbarian come out? How long do you boil an egg? Where is the closest movie theater, what’s playing, and how do I get there? What’s the name of this song? How much does this cost and is it cheaper on Amazon?
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- 35. Are you usingmobile in these ways to support your people? How? Connect. Capture. Check In Find. Read. Watch. Listen. Play. Purchase. Create.
- 36. For what devicesare you creating content?
- 37. For what devicesare you creating content? Poll: http://cammybean.kineo.com/2014/05/whats-your-technology-mix-for-learning.html Desktop/laptop 58% Tablets 26% Smartphones 14%
- 38. How will youraudience use their devices? Know your use cases.
- 39. It’s a grandconvergence: smart phones, large phones (phablets), tablets with keyboards, laptops with touch screens.
- 40. “Making mLearning Usable:How We Use Mobile Devices”, Steven Hoober with Patti Shank, PhD, CPT, eLearning Guild Research Report, 2014.
- 41. Brent Schlenker, Litmos http://www.litmos.com/blog/ Andwhen I need the information I’m all to happy to consume it on my mobile device at the moment that I need it. Is it perfect? No. But I’d rather have it imperfect NOW, rather than perfectly designed 6 weeks later… it’s okay to simply convert your existing content to a format that can display on mobile devices.
- 42. So what dev toolsare you already using? And can you use them for mobile?
- 43. Storyline (expected usage: desktopand tablets)
- 44. Captivate 7. (Expecteduse case: tablets).
- 45. Brainshark (Expected usecase: desktop, tablets and phones).
- 46. Responsive design (Adapt) (fordesktop, tablets, phones). http://masterfirefoxos.mozilla.org/#/m 05/t05 earn more about Adapt – an open source, responsive elearning framework https://community.adaptlearning.org
- 47. Finding smart waysto take advantage of a phone’s features… www.cognitiveadvisors.com
- 48. For mobile ID,be sure to add another slice to your pie. Usability/ interface design
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- 50. Hey, look. Iwrote a book! Available now: http://www.astd.org/Publications/Books/The-Accidental-Instructional-Designer and on Amazon
- 51. Cammy Bean twitter: @cammybean blog:http://cammybean.kineo.com References and more on design: http://www.diigo.com/list/cammybean/design The Accidental Instructional Designer: http://www.astd.org/Publications/Books/The-Accidental- Instructional-Designer
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- #41 guildresearch_mobile2014.pdf page 17 of 49
- #42 “Your learners are already mobile learners. Whether they’re listening to podcasts at the gym or accessing a Lynda.com tutorial about HTML tags while in line for coffee, they are using mobile technologies to learn. In general, giving your learners access to content on-demand allows them to learn when it is most convenient for their schedules. And in terms of effective performance support, mobile technologies are a natural way to provide our learners what they need, when they need it.” Jennifer Neibert, http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1416/mobile-learning-for-talent-development-critical-questions-for-learning-leaders Although I’m skeptical of these things, I asked Koreen Olbrish, Product Manager at lynda.com for some stats and she said, “about 20% of all lynda.com traffic is through our mobile apps, with the highest segment accessed by mobile being the Developer segment, which was a surprise to us, since we assumed developers would be on desktop so they could simultaneously code/practice…” But are they really doing an HTML5 lesson while waiting in line for coffee? Really?
- #47 http://masterfirefoxos.mozilla.org/#/m05/t05
- #48 Capturing real, on-the-job experience with embedded coaching. Capturing the real things that happen in line that aren’t online!
- #49 DESIGN for mobile – a big piece of this is UX design, usability, interface. Find the right partner – or quickly upskill your own talent…