mobile learning: five mistakes to avoid
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Mobile Learning – Five Mistakes to AvoidDr. Allen Partridge | Sr. Technology Evangelist, eLearning
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Our Session today will focus on practical advice for avoiding common mistakesWe’ll see definitions of the mistakes, then learn ways to avoid them
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Five Common Mistakes
How to avoid them in practice
Questions & Answers
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Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning1: File Size is Way Too Big
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I’m just a little guy. I can’t remember that much!
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Avoiding the Mistake1: Strategies to Reduce File Size
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Video & Sound Optimized
Appropriate Sized Images
Lean on Shapes
Bite Sized Content
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Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning2: All Devices are NOT the Same
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We aren’t all iPads and even iPads change sizes
and orientation.
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Avoiding the Mistake2: Responsive Design Saves the Day
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What is Responsive?
Breakpoints and Degrading Gracefully
Viewport Sizes
Inheritance & Project Design
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What changes for eLearning authors and developers?How do we craft learning for mobile?
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Responsive Web Design vs. Responsive eLearning
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What are Breakpoints?It’s all in the sliding
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What is Viewport Size?http://viewportsizes.com/mine/
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Captivate’s Law of Inheritance ;)
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Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning3: Didn’t Realize that Context is Hugely Important in Mobile Learning
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If it’s not authentic and
relevant, your learners
will disappear!
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Avoiding the Mistake3: Develop learning that works when and where your learner works
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Leverage the Environment
Facilitate Performance Support
Informal – Personalized Experience
Facilitate Search & Repetition
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Location Aware LearningThe ultimate field guide
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Wow! That water-borne insects field guide
popped up at the right time to handle these riverside apartments.
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Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning4: Ignoring Device Affordances & Usability
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When you touch and swipe my screen, you touch my pixel heart.
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Avoiding the Mistake4: Designing for the device affordances and usability
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Touch
Rotation
Location
Communication
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What differentiates mobile learning?Is there significant added value in making eLearning available on mobile devices?
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Learn anywhere
Learn anytime
Move while
learning
Location becomes
a tool
Touch computin
gTilt or flip
Interact with
others
create images &
video
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Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning5: eLearning to mLearning Direct Transfer Disasters
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Gosh – this course is complicated. It would be a lot easier to do
back at my office desk.
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Avoiding the Mistake5: Plan your Mobile Course & Consider the Differences
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Mobile is Learner Centered
Mobile is Context Aware
Mobile is More Intimate & Personal
On Demand not On Command
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