MNX106 10 Practical Tips for Making Mobile Learning Great
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM Wednesday, October 25
Expo Hall: Management Exchange Stage
With so many learners using mobile technologies, instructional designers and training managers feel pressure to approach content development with the mobile experience in mind and take a mobile-first approach. It’s difficult to determine exactly what considerations to include in the content development process, and how to evaluate and create a learning experience that appeals to learners on a variety of devices.
In this session, you will learn a framework for approaching content development for consumption across devices and evaluating how and where learners will engage with your content. You’ll also learn 10 different tips for creating eLearning that appeals to mobile audiences. These tips will include specific tactics and technologies for content creation that are designed to increase learner retention and improve learner experience on mobile devices.
In this session, you will learn:
- A framework for approaching content development for cross-device or mobile learning
- About considerations for mobile learning development
- Several techniques for retaining learners on mobile
- A few easy ways to improve content with modern technologies
- Techniques for improving learner experience on mobile
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, developers, project managers,
and managers.
Technology
discussed in this session:
Mobile technologies, learning management systems,
content authoring tools, and podcasts.
Linda Schwaber-Cohen
Head of Training
Skilljar
Linda Schwaber is head of training at Skilljar. Her expertise lies in building and growing onboarding and training programs at software startups. After teaching for several years in K-12 and university settings, she shifted gears and began to develop programs to help customers adopt and see the value in B2B software purchases. Prior to joining Skilljar, a Seattle-based customer onboarding and training platform, Linda managed customer onboarding and enablement at Simply Measured, a social media analytics SaaS company.