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Pitfalls in mobile learning #5:

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Although this is my fifth pitfall it’s probably the most fundamental – it’s just that I was hoping that this time round the e-learning industry had got its heads round the idea that emerging technologies are not solutions that we need to find problems for. Does a partner saying “I’ve got an iPad and I want to see learning on it.

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Pitfalls in mobile learning #1: Intimacy

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As new technologies emerge and then go mainstream, this provides L&D practitioners with new channels through which to connect with learners and enable them to improve performance. However on the way, some organisations will get in badly wrong. Step forward Havering Sixth Form College in Hornchurch.

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Pitfalls in mobile learning #2: What’s your user’s state of mind?

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Mobile offers the opportunity to reach people in situations where they can’t/ don’t want to use their PC/ laptop. As people in business become ever more time-pressured, it’s harder for L&D to reach them with them with content that is useful.

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Mobile pitfall #4: Are you really compatible?

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Many development tools claim that they produce learning content which will publish automatically to different models of mobile phone. So for the L&D manager commissioning mobile learning it’s just a game of finding out from IT which phones are on the standard list, cross-checking and then away you go…if only it was that simple….

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Professional services e-learning forum achieves ten

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So we’ve covered topics including “show and tell”, mobile learning, social learning, learner engagement, gaining buy-in from partners, LMS implementation, authoring tools, evaluation, performance support and video. Working in a professional partnership raises unique challenges and opportunities.

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