5 Common Mistakes You Should Avoid While Designing Your Mobile Learning Course

Mobile Learning Course: 5 Mistakes To Avoid
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Summary: The emergence of mobile technology has brought about so many benefits to different industries, including L&D. No wonder instructors are making use of mobile learning to create interactive and engaging courses for their learners.

What Is Mobile Learning?

One of the benefits of mLearning is that it helps to make training easy by reducing the cost and time of moving to a classroom. Apart from that, it helps instructors to deliver accessible learning and empowers learners to study on the go, at their convenience.

Mobile learning is a big deal in L&D, and many instructors are taking advantage of it to engage their employees and help them acquire new skills. It is useful to create accessible learning, and newbies in eLearning should start incorporating it into their learning program. However, to achieve effective training, there's a need to do the "on-the-go" training the right way.

Here are 5 common mistakes that you should avoid while creating your mobile learning courses. Hopefully, they can help you with your course design.

1. Designs Without IT Backup

One mobile learning mistake to avoid is designing your program without full backup from an IT specialist. Why do you need an IT backup?

Security Purpose

No doubt, learners are going to drop some vital information while registering for your course. To ensure that the information is secure, you need to team up with an IT expert.

Mobile App Analytics And Feedback

In the case of certificate programs or courses that involve a large curriculum, there's a need to carry out several data analyses. The analyses can require you to track your learners' participation or check if they have completed your course in order to certify them.

On the other hand, getting feedback from learners can help deliver better learning. So, by teaming up with IT experts, you can get continuous improvement on your platform and get analysis and feedback that matter.

2. Mobile Learning Is Not eLearning

Although both mobile learning and eLearning make use of digital communication to deliver knowledge, they are not the same. Most organizations are fond of using their existing desktop learning design and asking their employees to access it through their mobile devices.

They forget that engaging and visually pleasing eLearning content can be unengaging and less pleasing on mobile devices. So, to deliver more engaging and flexible learning, make sure to use the mobile design approach. This approach should focus on delivering responsiveness to various device screens and browsers. Also, it should be flexible and offer ease-of-use features, including control, in the case of video and audio content.

3. Adding Too Much Content

Another mistake that instructors often make in mobile learning is putting too much content in the course. In mobile learning, interface and screen sizes are much smaller, hence the need to offer less interactive elements.

Adding a lot of visual elements, like images, animation, and video can only help to distract your learners. Apart from distracting them, it also complicates learning, hence making learners lose interest.

So, during your mLearning course design process, make sure to reduce the usage of interactive and visual elements, to deliver better training for mobile users.

4. Not Using It For Social And Collaborative Learning Purposes

Although mobile learning does not support all kinds of learning, you can use it for collaborative and social learning. It enables learners to have a strong connection with each other as well as with the content. With that, you should harness the power of mLearning to enable learners to share their content on social platforms and receive comments.

The more they share your content, the more users you get from your mLearning program, and the more you get to improve your content. Also, you can make use of mobile app analytics to track comments in order to better improve your training.

5. Ignoring The Emotional Part Of Learning

Although mobile learning involves delivering short content, it should not ignore the emotional part of learning. Irrespective of how short your content is, it should be able to strike your learners' emotional side to deliver better learning.

You can make that happen by using an active voice and informal approach to make it more conversational and friendly. Also, you can incorporate gamification strategies to make it more engaging to catch their emotions.

In Conclusion

To achieve the best results with your mobile learning, make sure that you avoid the common mistakes. Follow the above tips to avoid making unnecessary mistakes that can ruin training for your learners.

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