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Pitfalls in mobile learning #5:

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Ask the right questions and your business has several problems that L&D can solve and a few of those solutions will involve mobile learning. Does a partner saying “I’ve got an iPad and I want to see learning on it. As ever it depends…will mobile give you higher reach, revenue from clients, faster speed to competence…?

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Pitfalls in mobile learning #1: Intimacy

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It’s easy to overlook that mobile as a channel is very intimate and the distinction between work and non-work usage/ content is very blurred. If you ever doubt, how personal mobile is a channel ask yourself: “What’s the first thing that you touch when you wake up in the morning”? Clean answers on a postcard please….

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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. Two opportunities that mobile opens up are: In the taxi on the way to a meeting. This is where learners will have more appetite for a deeper learning experience and be able to more reflective (personal development focus).

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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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