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By: Clark

Clark — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:20:16 +0000

Sibrenne, love Donald Clark’s irreverent take on many things, and this too. I fully support his point, which can be summed up as “mobile learning isn’t courses on a phone”. He documents the reasons, and while the early research can be trumped in many ways by much more capable devices, I agree that I don’t watch movies or read books (by and large) on my phone. I *do* however, on my tablet (and wouldn’t on my laptop, by the way).

And I don’t like Bloom’s Taxonomy (see Brenda Sugrue’s evisceration: http://www.performancexpress.org/0212/mainframe0212.html#title3 ), but the listing of apps is interesting and worthwhile. I’d look at general productivity tools for that matter: writing/note taking, numeric jotting (spreadsheets), drawing/diagramming, presentation software, capturing/bookmarking, search, etc, over perhaps specific learning focused things.

By: Sibrenne Wagenaar

Sibrenne Wagenaar — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:12:30 +0000

When it comes to concrete Apps, I like this overview: http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2011/08/24/ipad-applications-in-blooms-taxonomy/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter#

By: Sibrenne Wagenaar

Sibrenne Wagenaar — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:00:32 +0000

Just came across a blogpost that describes (among other quite technical things) that

“Early research on mobile learning showed something that is conveniently ignored by mobile learning evangelists. Attention and retention may be seriously affected by small screen size. Few watch movies, read entire e-books or perform long pieces of linear learning on their mobiles. More worrying is research by Nass & Reeves that shows that retention falls rapidly with screen size. This pushes m-learning towards performance support, recording performance and collaborative learning, rather than courses. So be careful about what type of learning you want to deliver.”

I wonder how ‘retention’ relates to screen size…?

http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2012/01/m-learning-be-careful-7-point-primer.html

By: Clark

Clark — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:43:19 +0000

Folks, interesting questions. I confess that I don’t (and can’t) know all the apps that do specific things. I do know that LearningMate (caveat: a partner) has an iPad app called GoClass that lets you send out questions to your class and receive back the results, but I don’t think it auto-categorizes.

I don’t see a need for mobile-specific solutions: following up after meetings can be done by email. You could also do this with SMS. There are SMS tools which can make it easier (tho’ I don’t know if they’re country-specific, which they might be).

As to changing behavior, our existing training fails. What you need is spaced practice, and while we can do this if learners have access to a desktop, mobile gives us new opportunities. It’s about a persistent and lasting relationship with the learner. I’m mindful of Suzanne’s concerns, of course, and think we might ask the learners how they want to learn, but they have to do *something*; whether it’s email or mobile orâ€¦whatever, if they need reactivation, reconceptualization, recontextualization, and reapplication for the learning to stick, they have to be willing, and then it’s a matter of channel.

And I don’t think a mobile phone is the same as a laptop is the same as a tablet, and we should be looking at what works regardless separate from what specific uses do these devices have.

Thanks for the interaction and engagement, look forward to talking with you tomorrow (as I write this).

By: Suzanne Bakker

Suzanne Bakker — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:56:42 +0000

Hello Clark,
I am very curious about the webinar, too, and looking forward to concrete ideas for application of mlearning. The way I have understood it thusfar is in its focus on being able to learn and apply anywhere – including using laptops (since they’re not fixed). Of course I can see that a phone or tablet is more practical to carry around than a laptop, but for me it was also somehow reassuring that mlearning is not only about the phone … Maybe I am a bit old-fashioned in my ways but to me a mobile phone can be used more intrusively than a laptop (tablet), and sometimes it is annoying if someone is intruding into something you are doing and not conducive to learning. I think that using for instance texting can be powerful (inspired by http://jenniferparker.posterous.com/mobile-learning-toolkit) but for me personally a lot would depend on timing, frequency and specially phrasing to determine whether I could see it as inspirational & motivating or an annoyance. I am wondering if you have any data or experience to share on this – is this a generation issue, or is it more widely felt, and how could one deal with that? My dilemma is – I like the examples mentioned in mobile learning toolkit, but when someone experimented with texting as a tool it sometimes (not always) greatly annoyed me to be disturbed in such manner. Somehow a text message can have a ring of urgency to it and that seems not always appropriate to me. But maybe this is an attitude that will change over time after using this more often? Looking forward to tomorrow!!!
PS Simon, the link above may contain some answers to your questions on concrete apps/tools.

By: Paul Kleinwoud

Paul Kleinwoud — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:56:10 +0000

Hello Clark, I’m working with a Dutch bank with 145 subsidiaries. We often ‘implement’ changes for those subsidiaries and learning means giving a presentation, following an elearning or reading about the change. Managers in the subsidiaries are supposed to embed the change in daily work so it becomes routine. Sometimes we organise webinars for learning – for instance if other behaviour is required. The last one is complicated – how can we reach 10.000 employees and change the way they work? Eg. if legislation changes and we have to change behaviour – if we don’t we violate the law. How can new ways of learning – mobile or social learning help us?

By: Pauline

Pauline — Mon, 21 May 2012 19:52:59 +0000

Hello Clark,
I am working for the government (county) and we are moving to a more interactive culture. For this moment I have to organize regulary f2f meetings with experts to help us develop our policy on subjects as health, traffic and so on. We want to stay in contact with the participants and ask them later for feedback and more input. I wonder if you have suggestions for apps which can help us to do so. It is difficult for me to see possibilities, but I think for announcing new developments, of may be to ask questions.
Pauline