Mobile Technology Allows for Innovations in How and Where We Learn

The limits to how far mobile and wireless technology extend their formidable capabilities into our lives will likely be in the realm of remote learning and training. Using hand-held digital devices such as cell phones, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), Blackberrys, and hand-held computers to transmit training modules to workers on the road and in the field is in its nascent stages. But wireless technology and eLearning forecasters alike predict enormous global expansion and business implications by 2007, with upwards of 80 per cent of corporate employees using hand-held digital devices to access training.

The lines between traditional classroom learning, or Instructor-Led Training (ILT), eLearning and Mobile Learning will become indistinguishable through exploration of this emerging media, demographic and market.

Mobile Learning Delivery Options from HALIGHT

HALIGHT's eLearning team is part of the exploration of Mobile Learning technology and delivery options. Our experience in the eLearning and learning management fields give us an insider's edge when it comes to the workforce learning/training implications of mobile technology.

Much as CONDUIT 2.0, our Learning Management System (LMS), paves the way for two-way communication between workers and learning managers through the learning medium itself, Mobile Learning should serve as a conduit for knowledge base transfer from those in the workplace who have it, to those in the field who need it—the people interacting with the customers and clients.

In this way, Mobile Learning takes the interactive elements of eLearning and extends their capabilities and reach into the wider, public sphere. An important step in business, as this is where the customers and clients in search of your training services—everything from ILT, Hybrid eLearning, LMSs, and your new and intriguing Mobile Learning technology—make decisions.

Mobilize Learning

With the proliferation of cellular and mobile technology, as well as a growing mobile workforce around the world, innovations in learning possibilities have arrived just-in-time.

Imagine your executives, sales representatives, technicians, retail staff, customer service agents, investigators, account managers—whoever it is on your business team who needs to have critical knowledge and understanding in order to do their job and serve the business—receiving up-to-the-minute news on financial and political developments that affect business; information on competitors products; specs and comparisons on merchandise, pricing and upcoming product launches....

The possibilities are yours to explore, and HALIGHT can deliver it to an employee's hand-held computer, cell phone or PDA while they work the sales floor, travel to a client meeting, between service calls or phone orders. Mobile Learning is on-demand and embedded into your business culture and workflow. Mobile Learning dovetails intuitively into your operations.

Mobile Customization

It's important to recognize and understand the differences between fully developed eLearning and Mobile Learning. HALIGHT eLearning comes in a variety of deployment options: CBT, WBT, Blended, Hybrid, Rapid eLearning, and eBriefings just to name a few.

Mobile Learning, is simply a custom courseware deployment option, designed by HALIGHT to operate on a broad spectrum of mobile technology devices, and disseminate your critical knowledge base in quick, easily digestible learning segments, what the Mobile Learning industry calls "chunks" or "learning objects"—three to five minute stand-alone digital learning presentations.

Breaking your knowledge base down into effect learning elements requires skilled instructional design and graphical interface. HALIGHT's design team brings all their experience in the custom designed eLearning field to bear on this burgeoning workforce training deployment.

Making sure your learning message is communicated and understood in a relatively short timeframe, in some challenging learner settings (airports, taxi cabs, client presentations, seminars, trade show and show room floors) requires a specialized attention to salient learning details and innovative technical and instructional writing skills.

HALIGHT's Mobile Learning design team combines these elements with the all-important visual elements of the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Just because Mobile Learning segments are brief doesn't mean their aesthetic composition must be compromised. There are limitations, but HALIGHT customization overcomes them.

Enhance Your eLearning

Mobile Learning is not intended as a replacement for more advanced eLearning deployments and LMSs. Rather, it is an enhancement of your eLearning modules, using the expansive power of new technology to extend the reach of your knowledge base, your learning message, and your business.

All HALIGHT Mobile Learning is fully trackable through linkage with the CONDUIT 2.0 LMS. Custom groupings, flagging, stats, and reports are all available through HALIGHT innovation.