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Mobility Has Become Mainstream
November 19, 2009
By A. J. Ripin
Mobility is more than technology; it's the lifestyle wireless technology engenders. Mobility has become mainstream, empowering the mobile workforce—which recent reports estimate to be more than 40 percent of the total U.S. workforce. It's time to take advantage of this momentum and enthusiasm, and include mobile learning in your blended tool kit of learning solutions.
Implementing mobile learning can be a complex process, depending on the scale and needs of your organization. To create useful mobile learning applications, you first need to understand the five dynamics of the mobile learning environment:
1. Impact of the Global Marketplace: Trends, regulations, innovations
2. Internal/External Mobile Learning Infrastructure: Types of handhelds, wireless carriers, data plans
3. Various Types of Mobile Content: A few content types are performance support, information, education, reference, quizzes, etc
4. Approaches to Delivery: A few format types include e-mail, messaging, mobile Web, client-side applications, etc.
5. Changing Learning Needs of End-Users: Does the audience need to be hands-free? Is wireless service available? Are images necessary?
Understanding and evaluating these dynamics will ensure that whatever types of mobile learning solutions you create, design, deploy, test, implement and track throughout your organization today will be relevant tomorrow.
As a mobile learning practitioner, I understand the possibilities of mobility are both exciting and intricate. Come to our hands-on Mobile Learning workshop at the Training 2010 Conference in San Diego to learn how your company will benefit from these innovations. To get a feel for Mobile Learning before that, follow the conference on Twitter @Training2010. We'll be tweeting information before, during, and after the conference, along with chat, resources and presenter interaction. You can also keep up with new advances in Mobile Learning by following @mobilelearning on Twitter, where
you can ask me your questions directly.
A.J. Ripin is a strategist at Future and Emerging Technologies, MovingKnowledge. Contact him via e-mail: ajripin@movingknowledge.com
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