108 What You Must Know to Select the Best Mobile Learning Development Tools
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Wednesday, June 8
Management
301/302
There are so many authoring tools on the market, and so many promise that they’ll let you create stellar mobile learning solutions. How can any organization make sense of which will serve it best? Is one enough, or do you need two? Are two enough, or do you need eight? You don’t randomly choose which car to buy. You don’t throw a dart at a map to decide where to live. Research is key, and consulting an unbiased expert can save a lot of time and cost. Choosing an authoring tool that you can use to create mobile lessons is no different.
In this session, you will learn the right questions to ask to get the answers needed to avoid costly mistakes. You’ll learn how to help your team use this information to create the best learning in the least amount of time and at the lowest cost, avoiding the potential land mines that await you. Additionally, you will learn about the critical differences between Flash and HTML5, and strategies for creating mobile learning that must also work on desktop computers.
In this session, you will learn:
- To evaluate the landscape of mobile learning tools available in today’s market
- To determine the principal features of many of the top tools to help you and your team create mobile learning rapidly
- To decide when it makes sense to go with HTML5, with Flash, or with both
- To ask the right questions of tool vendors and to evaluate the answers you get
Audience:
Novice and intermediate developers, project managers, managers,
and directors.
Technology
discussed in this session:
Mobile development tools, HTML5, and Flash.
Joe Ganci
President
eLearning Joe
Joe Ganci is the owner and president of eLearning Joe, a custom learning company. Since 1983, he has been involved in every aspect of multimedia and learning development. Joe holds a computer science degree, writes books and articles about eLearning, and is widely considered an eLearning development guru. He consults worldwide and also teaches at conferences and client sites. Joe writes tool reviews and has received several awards for his work in eLearning, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999 and an eLearning Guild Master Award in 2013. His mission is to improve the quality of eLearning with practical approaches that work.