Emerging Trends in Learning and Development

People and Organisations: Principles and Practice in Global Contexts

Emerging Trends in Learning and Development

Mobile Training

With the rapid increase of usage of the mobile devices all over the world, and as a result of the dedicated work of the mobile learning community, during recent past we have experienced an explosion in the growth of mobile learning across all sectors of education. Mobile learning has become one of the main emerging Learning and Development topic to discuss around the world mainly because mobile learning has been a victim of its own success. Many communities have defined it based on their own particular experiences, uses and backgrounds.

Most of the organizations are focusing and working on making training accessible from virtually anywhere considering the increase of mobile society. The Mobile learning element of our Blended Learning program takes into account the mobility of learners and instructors by taking advantage of hand-held devices, such as Smart phones and tablets. Mobile learning also plays a role in social or informal learning within organizations, making it easy for people working from different locations to share knowledge.

Methods of Mobile Learning

SMS messaging.

This service e is commonly used by the schools, colleges and universities to notify their students regarding daily needs in educational contexts, for urgent communications (e.g., cancellation of a lecture). Almost all students enrolled in schools, colleges and universities carry a sophisticated communications device. If the institution’s communication is sent to the students’ mobile phones by SMS messaging, the message will be received immediately by all students. An SMS messaging system can be set up by in-house development or by using an SMS service provider

Screenshots of educational content.  

Mobile devices are ideal for receiving short, five to six screen presentations of educational content, such as a course summary, advice on examination preparation, and assistance with a part of a course that has caused difficulties to students in the past, tutorial advice or even multiple choice tests.

Course modules.

Providing learning coursed through mobile devices have become more popular at present. A comfortable didactic environment can be created by using Microsoft Reader Works to display the content. However, the main challenge is to solve the problems of screen size for the presentation of course modules in mobile learning on the slightly smaller screens of smart phones and mobile phones.

Examples for the organizations using the Mobile Learning method are:

AMAZON Company

AT&T Company, USA 

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