Are you looking for amazing ways to create content using your mobile device? In this session, you will learn how to use your phone or tablet to brainstorm, create audio- and video-based recordings, and animate, using several mind-blowing apps. You’ll leave the session feeling inspired, and you’ll have practical information to apply to one or more apps when you get back to your device. 

When new hires start, they usually feel excited but overwhelmed by the volume of learning required to become job-ready. An easily accessible line manager has a significant positive impact on the learning curve; however, managers are often very stretched themselves with tactical responsibilities, which can result in the needs of new recruits being relegated. In this session, you will learn proven techniques on structuring an effective mobile program that fully supports your new hires. This includes blended learning activities, tracking progress via powerful reporting capabilities, and connecting new hires to a focused network of subject matter experts who can provide virtual check-ins and feedback.

Mobile learning is rapidly becoming a must-have for organizations big and small. For most designers, getting started is a huge hurdle they have yet to overcome. Considering all the new technology, platforms, authoring tools, and skills required to make it all work can paralyze even the best learning pros.

In this session, you’ll learn how quick and easy it can be to build mobile learning with skills and tools that you already have. If you have PowerPoint (yes, PowerPoint), you have everything you need to create visually appealing, interactive, and dynamic mobile learning solutions. Additionally, you will learn how to create mobile-friendly videos and interactive eBooks.

In this session, you will learn:

• About several types of mobile-friendly learning content that you can easily author from PowerPoint
• How to quickly and easily create mobile-friendly videos
• How to create interactive eBooks
• About easy-to-use templates to jump-start your mobile learning projects

Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, developers, project managers, and managers with basic computer and PowerPoint skills.

Technology discussed in this session:
Microsoft PowerPoint, portable document format (PDF), eBooks (EPUB), and mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.).

Participant technology requirements:
Laptop with Wi-Fi capability, running Windows and PowerPoint 2013 or later.

When creating mobile learning, serious issues exist with the level of interactivity, adaptive screen layouts for multiple modalities, the time and resources needed to create the solutions, and the lack of a highly efficient method to update content that does not take significant time or a programmer.

In this session, you will explore the best practices for creating reusable HTML5 learning objects for mobile learning that rely on externalized content created collaboratively using tools like Google Docs. The best practices will include methods for creating solutions with adaptive designs, dynamic simulations, presentations, quiz engines, performance support tools, and more. All are built with technologies that allow for changes in minutes and automated localization by using simple spreadsheets (potentially wiki-based) to update and maintain mobile courseware without relying on third-party rapid authoring tools.

In this session, you will learn:

• How you can use HTML5 to create highly interactive reusable objects
• How you can construct these reusable objects to be fully adaptive using responsive design techniques
• How to tie reusable objects to external content for a more flexible, dynamic, and maintainable solution
• How to utilize wiki-based collaborative tools to make creation and maintenance of courseware efficient and open to all skill levels

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, and managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
HTML5 and Google Docs.

In today’s device-rich world, it’s absolutely essential to make your eLearning courses available on all devices, irrespective of their varying screen sizes, in the best possible manner. Creating responsive courses helps you achieve this goal.

During this hands-on session, you will learn how to create responsive eLearning courses with ease using Adobe Captivate. You will also learn about the best practices to tweak content for a specific device and use the in-product preview to see how the course will appear on various screens. And finally, you’ll learn to publish the course as a single project and automatically deliver the most appropriate experience for the learner’s device.

In this session, you will learn:

• About basic steps to create responsive courses
• Best practices to determine the size and position of objects
• Best practices to preview and publish responsive courses
• Best practices to create responsive interactions

Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers and developers with basic Captivate development skills.

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Captivate.

Participant technology requirements:
Laptop running the latest version of Adobe Captivate.

Today’s technology promises access to learning content to everyone, everywhere, but can your content really deliver on this promise? Stuck in inflexible pages, much of today’s learning material is trapped in traditional formal-learning vehicles like courses or presentations. Your content—and the budget, time, and effort you spend creating it—needs to do more to be as effective as possible.

In this session, you’ll learn to think less about “courses” of content and more about the components that give content its value and meaning. You will focus on designing and creating content that can be used to help learners at multiple times of need, from initial formal learning through to application on the job. The session will cover instructional design processes for planning single-source, multipurpose content, as well as development strategies to ensure that your learners can find and use this content no matter what device they choose or need to use.

In this session, you will learn:

• Strategies for evaluating what content your learners need in order to carry out their roles
• How to develop and deliver content that is structured, interconnected, and searchable—making it ready for multipurpose use
• Instructional design approaches to help you plan for single-source, multipurpose content
• How to kick-start a learning and development process in your organization that supports single-source, multipurpose content creation

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, and managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Responsive design, mobile learning devices, single-source design platforms, and content repositories.

You’re finally getting started on managing your first mobile learning project. While mobile is new to you, you’ve managed many successful eLearning projects in the past. How different could it be? Well, as it turns out, quite a bit. There are a number of key differences and several new land mines that you’ll need to avoid. So where do you start, and what process do you need to follow to successfully build your first mobile learning project?

In this session, you’ll look at the project management steps involved in developing a mobile learning project, using a real case study as an example of what to do and what not to do. You’ll not only hear the story of this project, but also get to examine a sample mobile learning project plan that includes the documents and templates that can make this process run smoothly, including front-end analysis, specifications documents, budgets, a change management plan, a development plan, an implementation plan, and a project evaluation. You’ll leave this session prepared for the unique challenges of mobile learning project management.

In this session, you will learn:

• About project management considerations for a successful mobile learning development project
• How to transition the project to a delivery and deployment team
• How to frame and pitch a mobile learning and/or app business strategy
• What elements and requirements you should include to make a successful business case for mobile
• Best practices for implementing mobile learning

Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, project managers, and managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Project management tools and developer review tools.

Mobile learning has come of age to address the need for easy-to-access training on the go. Organizations face many challenges from app developers in meeting their specific needs and implementing a solution that meets learners’ needs in a large organization.

This session will share one team’s journey from identifying their learners’ needs for offline and easy access to training to the realization of building mobile learning apps in a large organization. You will examine how to overcome challenges and how to build support and drive adoption for mobile learning. Finally, you will see a demo of their solution and receive guidance on how to begin your mobile learning application development.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to evaluate your readiness for mobile learning application development
• How to define the benefits of a pilot project to gain stakeholder support
• How to overcome challenges of mobile learning application development within a large organization
• About the advantages and disadvantages of working with external developers
• How to describe an effective strategy for driving adoption of mobile learning

Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, developers, project managers, managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
An iOS mobile learning application.