Mobile learning: Five Mistakes to Avoid
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The document outlines five common mistakes in mobile learning and provides strategies to avoid them. Key mistakes include oversized file sizes, lack of responsive design, disregard for context and device usability, and improper transfer from eLearning to mobile learning. Practical advice is given for each mistake to enhance mobile learning effectiveness.
Mobile learning: Five Mistakes to Avoid
- 1. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Mobile Learning – Five Mistakes to Avoid Dr. Allen Partridge | Sr. Technology Evangelist, eLearning
- 2. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Our Session today will focus on practical advice for avoiding common mistakes We’ll see definitions of the mistakes, then learn ways to avoid them 2 Five Common Mistakes How to avoid them in practice Questions & Answers
- 3. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning 1: File Size is Way Too Big 3 I’m just a little guy. I can’t remember that much!
- 4. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Avoiding the Mistake 1: Strategies to Reduce File Size 4 Video & Sound Optimized Appropriate Sized Images Lean on Shapes Bite Sized Content
- 5. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning 2: All Devices are NOT the Same 5 We aren’t all iPads and even iPads change sizes and orientation.
- 6. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Avoiding the Mistake 2: Responsive Design Saves the Day 6 What is Responsive? Breakpoints and Degrading Gracefully Viewport Sizes Inheritance & Project Design
- 7. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. What changes for eLearning authors and developers? How do we craft learning for mobile? 7
- 8. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Responsive Web Design vs. Responsive eLearning
- 9. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. What are Breakpoints? It’s all in the sliding
- 10. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. What is Viewport Size? http://viewportsizes.com/mine/
- 11. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Captivate’s Law of Inheritance ;)
- 12. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning 3: Didn’t Realize that Context is Hugely Important in Mobile Learning 12 If it’s not authentic and relevant, your learners will disappear!
- 13. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Avoiding the Mistake 3: Develop learning that works when and where your learner works 13 Leverage the Environment Facilitate Performance Support Informal – Personalized Experience Facilitate Search & Repetition
- 14. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Location Aware Learning The ultimate field guide 14 Wow! That water-borne insects field guide popped up at the right time to handle these riverside apartments.
- 15. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning 4: Ignoring Device Affordances & Usability 15 When you touch and swipe my screen, you touch my pixel heart.
- 16. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Avoiding the Mistake 4: Designing for the device affordances and usability 16 Touch Rotation Location Communication
- 17. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. What differentiates mobile learning? Is there significant added value in making eLearning available on mobile devices? 17 Learn anywhere Learn anytime Move while learning Location becomes a tool Touch computin g Tilt or flip Interact with others create images & video
- 18. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Five Common Mistakes in Mobile Learning 5: eLearning to mLearning Direct Transfer Disasters 18 Gosh – this course is complicated. It would be a lot easier to do back at my office desk.
- 19. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Avoiding the Mistake 5: Plan your Mobile Course & Consider the Differences 19 Mobile is Learner Centered Mobile is Context Aware Mobile is More Intimate & Personal On Demand not On Command
- 20. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.© 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Still Hungry for more? Check out these resources for more training in Adobe Captivate • Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/presenter/ • YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/adobepresenter/ • AdobeTV: http://tv.adobe.com/channel/e-learning/ • Adobe EDEX: http://edex.adobe.com/ • Adobe KnowHow: http://www.adobeknowhow.com/ • More eSeminars: http://adobe.ly/1qqQ2FX • Email me: [email protected]
- 21. © 2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.