Mobile Learning Decision Path. Mobile App Usage Grows Among Businesses. More than three-quarters (77 percent) of executives noted that security issues are the top concern for achieving their mobility goals, according to findings from application management and security specialist Apperian’s 2014 Executive Enterprise Mobility Report, which was conducted by Gatepoint Research. More than 70 percent of respondents said they plan to equip more than 1,000 users with mobile apps and 33 percent of respondents said they are deploying mobile apps to more than 5,000 users in the next two years. Issues with managing mobility programs are one of the top concerns of respondents, with 37 percent citing how to determine return on investment (ROI) and 35 percent citing lack of management tools as important challenges.
Another important challenge is security--70 percent of respondents are still unable to detect data or device loss, suggesting a lack of mobile security initiative despite the key concern. 3 Things to Remember About Your Mobile Learning Strategy | eLearning Blog. Mobile Learning is a major trend in the eLearning industry. Many have argued the finer details of mlearning extensively. As the leader of a training department of any size, you should be considering how you can leverage mobile devices to support enterprise-wide performance improvement. And if you are responsible for producing training for your customers then there are additional issues to consider as well. There are technical questions that need to be answered as well as HR questions, and internal cultural questions. Mobile Learning technology can be very enticing and fun, but don’t get caught up in the new shiny object until you consider the larger enterprise and how mobile devices are treated. 1.
Do employees get paid for accessing training off-the-clock? On the flip side, your A-players are perfect candidates for mobile learning because they are self-sufficient and will take any opportunity they can to control their own time. Remember to know your audience. 2. 3. Related Posts: Do you need a mobile strategy? | LINE Communications. There is now more access to the web via smartphone and tablet than from desktops and laptops. At the global level, the statistics are mind-boggling. Worldwide, 20 billion apps were consumed last year; that’s slightly more than three for every person on the planet. In the UK we are particularly avid users of mobile technology. 78% won’t leave home without their phones , and we are seeing these devices dominate not only our domestic existences, but also our working lives.
Mobile has penetrated the enterprise. The BYOD phenomenon shows clearly that a lot of this push is coming from the grass roots up. People grow so attached to their favoured personal devices that they want to use them at work as well as at home. When it comes to using these devices for communications, support and learning therefore, L&D finds itself facing pressure from both ends of the organisation to adopt. In many organisations it is not a case of when mobile will happen, or how fast – it’s already happened. Scale. Towards Maturity - In-Focus: Learning in the Mobile Enterprise (2014) Newly published Towards Maturity In-Focus report looks at how to support new flexible ways of working with new ways of learning. Over the last ten years, technology has radically changed and has impacted the way that we work and communicate, with more change still to come. Staff are now working anytime, anyplace, anywhere, but are they able to access learning in the same way?
And do they want to? In the Towards Maturity 2013-14 Benchmark report: The New Learning Agenda: Talent: Technology: Change, analysis of data from over 500 organisations revealed new insights into how top learning companies are implementing learning technologies to support learning and development. This In-Focus report, supported by our Ambassador Redware, draws on this data, together with data from over 2,000 learners gathered in the Towards Maturity Learning Landscape study during 2013 to explores three main themes: How do people become more productive when they are working in a dispersed workplace? Related downloads. Towards Maturity - How do we meet the challenge of tracking mobile learning? Helen Bingham and Alison Potter, NHS in conversation at the #LT14UK Towards Maturity eXchange - Report by Genny Dixon Helen and Alison work together in Health Education Wessex - Thames Valley and are now into their fourth year of using mobile learning.
Those around the table were very much at the start of their own journey and in some cases not sure where to start, so this conversation provided lots of opportunities to ask questions, raise understanding of the some of the more technical aspects and explore together the issues and challenges of tracking mobile learning. Going native The early approach in NHS Thames Valley was to develop native apps that were distributed via an App Store such as the Apple iStore. They developed six apps covering topics such as clinical skills, health and safety and medical adminstration techniques - providing high-end, structured quick reference learning opportunities.
Making learning 'count' Why track mobile learning? External or in-house? Towards Maturity - Towards Maturity Learner Voice Part 1. The Learner Voice is a new Towards Maturity series designed to help L&D managers challenge their assumptions about workplace learning and to identify new opportunities to connect with and engage their staff.
In part 1 we look at how 2,000 learners in the private sector are learning what they need to do their jobs! Download your copy at the foot of this page. Insights have been drawn directly from staff themselves which have been gathered from the Towards Maturity Learning Landscape Audit. This study doesn’t ask about what learners want, it investigates what they already do! We've captured findings in the Learner Voice in order to stimulate a discussion about the way that L&D supports learning in the organisation. The Towards Maturity Learning Landscape is an ongoing research initiative that started in 2003. Each organisation has a unique profile of behaviour due to their culture and line of business but there are some trends across all of the businesses that we could not wait to share.
Towards Maturity - LearningNow: How to make your Learning Effective, Efficient and Engaging. Towards Maturity and our founding Ambassador Epic co-hosted our fourth LearningNow event on 2nd April 2014 to examine how to make learning effective, efficient and engaging. Over 50 L&D practitioners gathered together to explore ways to make the most of your learning without reinventing the wheel, including recycling the same piece of content on multiple devices, finding ways to make better use of learners’ time and using case studies and marketing techniques to engage learners. Throughout the interactive session we combined the experiences and lessons learned from top learning companies from the Towards Maturity Benchmark, together with the collective wisdom of the workshop participants. As a result of crowdsourcing on the day, we are able to provide hints and tips for: How to align learning more effectivelyHow to personalise the learning experienceHow to design to engageHow to support the transfer of learningHow to deliver more efficiencyHow to engage learners download your copy.
Towards Maturity - In-Focus: Mobile Learning at Work (2014) Towards Maturity have released their latest In-Focus report titled 'Mobile Learning at Work' and is the second in the series that explores changing patterns of use of mobile learning at work. This latest report, which is supported by TM Ambassador Upside Learning, is based on extensive research derived from Towards Maturity's 2013 Benchmark Study and examines key findings based on the responses received from 481 organisations across 44 countries spanning a range of industries, sectors, types and sizes. With strong numerical data and an in-depth research about the L&D industry, the report sheds light on various trends and practices companies are employing with respect to mobile learning, how some of them are benefitting, and lays a path ahead for learning professionals to successfully incorporate mobile learning technologies within the corporate workspace.
Key findings: Sponsored by Upside Learning The report contains useful tips for: This In-Focus report is free to download Related downloads. Towards Maturity - How to recycle your e-learning content â hints and tips from Civil Service Learning. This story is about how the Civil Service Learning (CSL), created to centrally manage the delivery of learning for all civil servants, wanted to utilise and reuse the significant investment that multiple departments had already made in their own e-learning content. This study, first published by E-learning Age magazine in July 2013, shows how they approached the challenge of rebranding and refreshing e-learning across the civil service to offer a consistent experience on a variety of delivery platforms.
This is the story of probably one of the largest e-learning recycling projects of its kind. The UK Civil Service employs 449,000 civil servants, almost three-quarters of whom work outside London and the southeast. Launched in April 2011, Civil Service Learning (CSL) was created to centrally manage delivery of all generic learning and development for civil servants, from classroom courses to online resources and e-learning to provide a single unified learning offer for the Civil Service. Towards Maturity - Six secrets of m-learning success: turning mobile learning aspirations into reality. At a recent LINE event at the Royal Institution Towards Maturity's own Laura Overton was invited to speak on mobile learning and reflect on its impact upon organisation and strategy. TM - 10 years of valuable data gatheringTowards Maturity has been gathering data for 10 years, and Laura was keen to emphasise that the organisation is less focused on statistics than on the implications of those statistics and how they can be used to take action; identifying the behaviors and best practices that lead to success for the high performers in the study.
After highlighting some of the factors that are causing mobile to capture our attention – the high rates of adoption, the growth of BYOD schemes, and the need felt by learning professionals to integrate learning into the workplace – Laura concentrated on some significant barriers. These are mostly around the technology and coping with the wide range of devices that must be catered for. Image By jannoon028 Also do complete our minipoll. Towards Maturity - Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Mobile Learning: The Perfect Partnership? In 2012, one of the major talking points in the learning community was mobile and a number of those conversations featured BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device.
The same was echoed in January, when we attended Learning Technologies 2013 and there it was clear that BYOD was going to be a hot topic for this year too. But what is driving the demand? And what is holding organisations back? Is BYOD the perfect partner for mobile learning? First, we need to take a look at the user. In a lot of ways, it is the user driving the BYOD phenomenon. You only have to look at the numbers. When you look at these 2 surveys, it becomes clear that there is a desire from users for BYOD and an excellent opportunity for organisations to capitalise on that desire when planning their learning and development. Jane Hart, a Learning Consultant, frequently writes about developments in learning and made an interesting statement about the modern learner: The user wants it, but what about organisations?
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