Training and Development For Dummies

Chapter 22

Ten Guidelines for M-Learning Success

In This Chapter

Reviewing essentials you need to consider to design and deliver m-learning

Discovering ideas to ensure m-learning is useful for your employees

Learning in the palm of your hand. What a learning dream! It doesn’t get any better than that. M-learning, short for mobile learning, refers to content that can be accessed on smartphones, tablets, cellphones, and some wearables. M-learning is most beneficial when you combine a small but critical (because there is either a time or importance requirement) data point with the ability to improve a skill. M-learning also gives you the ability to connect on-the-fly with your learners. This is exciting in our world. This future-leaning opportunity accomplishes several things:

• It allows you, the trainer, to provide updates, changes, or new information.
• It offers you a chance to deliver small capsules of information, just-in-time and just when the learner needs it.
• It provides learners with content on the run and when they need it.
• It allows learners to provide you with an update when necessary or if something has changed.
• It keeps the relationship between the trainer and the learner active.

Even though m-learning has been a fantasy for trainers for a long time, it was slower to ...