901 Cutting the Complexity of Your Mobile Learning Solutions
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Thursday, June 22
Design
Seabreeze 1
Developing mobile learning solutions can become complicated if you’re not careful. One wrong turn can leave you mired in extra work you didn’t anticipate. Sometimes this happens due to design decisions. In other cases, the problem stems from choosing the wrong tool, failing to set up templates properly, or any number of other issues. Thankfully, one of the best ways to figure out how to reduce or even avoid your development complexity is simple: Look at successes and snags from previous projects.
In this session, you’ll examine the complexity of developing mobile learning solutions through examples of problems faced during the development of real mobile learning courses and performance support tools. You’ll explore these actual projects and take a closer look at the issues that made their development more complex than it needed to be. You’ll get a chance to hear from the developer himself about how, in retrospect, he’d reduce this complexity; and you’ll also have an opportunity to formulate your own ideas for simplifying these processes.
In this session, you will learn:
- About the impact of choosing the wrong type of tool for the task
- Techniques for making templates easier to use
- Tips for efficient mLearning programming in a variety of authoring tools
- Proven approaches to troubleshooting problems when they arise
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers and
developers.
Technology
discussed in this session:
Articulate Studio, Articulate Storyline, Trivantis
Lectora, Adobe Captivate, HTML5, and JavaScript.
Matt Kurtin
Senior Director, Technology and Visual Design
Innovative Learning Group
Matt Kurtin, Innovative Learning Group's senior director of technology and visual design, provides leadership for ILG's programmers and graphic designers. For over 20 years, he has advised client organizations on their overall technology strategy for learning and performance improvement. Matt provides insight into leading best practices for use of mobile solutions, learning portals, and learning management systems. He consistently applies the latest advances in digital capability, such as augmented and virtual reality, to practical application in learning. Matt has a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.