Laurence MAYER's List: E Learning

• Top 5 tech trends every trainer should know about

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• A SYDNEY company is educating the world, eight minutes at a time.
• The idea is that any spare eight minutes you have, whether it's going down in the [lift] at work or waiting ... to buy your coffee, that [time] can be used to learn something
• "It's not going to give you deep information on complicated matters but it can give you enough information for you to get by," Dr Juan said. "It's the beginning of the knowledge."
• Although he was cautious about unrealistic expectations of how much could be learnt in eight minutes, he said the podcasts offered a useful alternative for busy people.

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• Mobile learning: The opportunities and barriers
• Mobile learning is on the rise in the workplace, in education and in the wider community on a global level. From the use of handheld devices in museums and art galleries to the introduction of mobile technology providing a window on the world to African villages and crucial support for teachers in remote schools, the applications are far reaching.
• In today's connected society, mobile learning should be seen as a major opportunity for L&D providers in the near-term
• During the past few years, the use of mobile learning in the workplace has been growing steadily, reflecting globalisation and the needs of today's increasingly mobile workforce
• Barriers to overcome
• It is essential that the technologies we deploy as L&D professionals match the attitudes and preferences of our learners.
• generation gap
• Therefore, before deploying mobile learning on an enterprise-wide scale it is important to test it with a carefully selected yet diverse range of potential users ensuring that they become advocates of mobile learning to their peers.
• There are currently three big players in the 'smart' mobile device arena, Android, Apple, and Windows Mobile, each of which supports different technologies and requires different technologies to author content for.
• There is also the issue of developing content for many different screen sizes such as tablets (eg. iPads) and smartphone form factors. 

• Conclusions

   

  Demand is certainly there,
• This desire needs to be taken into account by both senior management and the L&D function when evaluating L&D strategies and also in preparation for the fundamental shift in habits and expectations that the Millennial generation will bring to the workplace.
• the L&D function needs to assess the ROI of mobile learning for it to succeed as part of a business model.

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