502 TL;DR: Writing for Mobile
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Thursday, June 11
Instructional Design
409
Great user experience (UX) and optimal design of mLearning products go further than layout, navigation, and style. Although these items are highly important, training materials need to be presented in an engaging way, and their writing style and wording need to fit into the bigger picture. Writing for mobile is very different from writing for other media. How does the written content fit with the design and development?
In this session you will explore the importance of the written content for your mLearning projects. You will learn how written words fit into and enhance the UX, and how that can increase usability as well as facilitate learning. You will leave this session with a number of tips to use when creating eLearning content for mobile platforms.
In this session, you will learn:
- The definition and importance of TL;DR
- How to evaluate the pros and cons of various writing styles
- How writing style is part of the UX
- How to identify techniques that work optimally for eLearning material
Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, project managers, and SMEs.
Technology
discussed in this session:
Mobile emulators.
Phil Cowcill
Senior eLearning Specialist
PJ Rules
Phil Cowcill is senior eLearning specialist at PJ Rules. He started his career in 1983 when he was hired as a technologist at a local college. In 1985 he joined a team to develop Canada's first Interactive Videodisc. He started teaching part-time in 1989, moving to full-time in 1995. He led his class to build one of the first news websites that streamed video in 1996. In 2011 he launched the very first dedicated mobile application development program. Phil retired from full-time teaching in 2015 and moved to working as a contractor with the Department of National Defence as a senior eLearning specialist.
Krista Hildner
Mobile App Developer/Faculty
Canadore College
Krista Hildner is a full-time mobile application developer at Canadore College who slants towards building educational applications. When Krista isn’t developing mLearning or mobile applications, she teaches part-time in Canadore College’s mobile-application development department.
