WorkLearnMobile - The Mobile Learning Innovation Network

Does your organization embrace BYOD? With differing screen sizes, operating systems, and device types it is paramount to test your mobile solution to make sure it works well across devices used in your organization. But how do you get started in multi-device testing? This ebook from Upside Learning helps you with fundamentals of multi-device testing along with several tips and best practices.

What’s happening in mobile learning? Here’s what we were reading in February: Lessons from Experts Hear from mobile learning expert, Sarah Gilbert in this ATD podcast. She speaks about the evolution of mobile learning and the need to leverage it in Learning & Development. Using interesting analogies and examples, she reminds us of the increasingly mobile world…

A recurring subliminal theme that surfaced in the recent L&T conference was to “keep learning real and closer to the learners” and it may be time that L&D professionals start donning multiple hats to make this happen.  Scenario-based learning, video-based learning and user trialing were three learning interventions in addition to mobile mindset which were…

What’s new in Mobile Learning? Let us save you some time by sorting through the best of January’s mLearning:

You may be neglecting some of your most valuable employees. . . Marta is young, eager and in a hurry to perform. She has been working for you for 4 years, and is clearly a rising star. She has moved into management, she masters new skills fast, she collaborates well and gets things done. And…

Question: How do you scale your enterprise mobile learning from one or two good apps, to a company wide mobile strategy?
Answer: An Enterprise App Store for Learning

The Mobile Learning team at Qualcomm are very excited to have been selected as finalists for 2 different categories of this years CLO Practitioner awards:

Tamar Elkeles (VP of Learning) under the Trailblazer category
Geoff Stead (Sr Director, Mobile Learning) under the Technology category

Find out more about them here

Donald Kirkpatrick, pioneer of learning evaluation, died on 9th May. The team at WorkLearnMobile offer our deepest condolences to his family and followers. As a tribute, we share how Kirpatrick’s model influences us as our Mobile Learning team creates Mobile Training resources or Learning Apps to support our Employees.

Mobile learners are mobile. Sounds kinda obvious, right? But sadly, many online learning providers dont quite get this. Sure – their PC-designed screens adapt and shrink to fit smaller mobile screens, the navigation is designed for mouse, not finger. How to fix this? The best method is real user testing. Watch untrained users try to navigate, on a diverse range of mobile devices. The eLearningGuild has just released a great report on this

WorkLearnMobile wants to know what to DO with the benchmarking reports related to mobile learning. How should they change our thinking and our actions? What are the NEW questions we should be asking of research? In an attempt to answer these questions, we spoke to Learning Leader, Nigel Paine to gain some of his perspectives on current research and where the gaps are…