These are the slides from a session delivered at Learning Technologies 2012. The session discusses the potential of mobile learning, the business benefits and the typical barriers that have prevented its widespread adoption (up to now). The session discusses how the iPad is fuelling the demand for mobile learning and how HTML5 offers the potential to become a "platform leveller" in this area, with the capability to take mobile learning mainstream. The session concludes by outlining what a solution that can address mobile learning in a coherent way (with content reuse across mobile and desktop browsers and holistic learner tracking) might look like. For related information, see http://www.cm-luminosity.com/blog

1. Realising the Potential of Mobile Learning
Alex Mackman
Technical Director, CM Group Ltd
alexm@cm-group.co.uk
www.cm-luminosity.com/blog
@alexatcmgroup
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2. Agenda
• Mobile Training: Why is it Useful?
• Mobile Training: Why isn’t it Everywhere?
• Tablet (iPad) Trends
• iPad Delivery Models
• HTML5
• Remember IE6?
• Platform Ingredients
• Summary
• References
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3. Mobile Training – Why Is It Useful?
Convenience
Training to staff and partners
Why should eLearning be different from
other forms of content
Make use of travel time and down time
Reference material delivery
Just-in-Time Training To a mobile workforce
On the spot, on the job, where and when e.g. field engineers, mobile sales
you need it force
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4. Mobile Training – Why Isn’t it Everywhere?
• Cost and Complexity
– No common technology
– Instructional design challenges
– Lack of content re-use across mobile and desktops
• Diverse range of devices to support
• Lack of LMS support
• Bandwidth issues / lack of offline capability
• Limited form factor and user experience for many scenarios
– The tablet is changing all that!
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5. Tablet (iPad) Trends
• ~20% of iPads sold for corporate use
• Over 90% of Fortune 500 companies
are currently deploying or piloting the
iPad
• 8 Million tablets sold in 2011 in the UK
• 1 in 6 UK adults say they will buy a
tablet such as the iPad by the end of
2012
• Windows 8 Tablets to Beta in March
and launch Q4 2012
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6. iPad Delivery Models
Model 1: Consuming existing Model 3: Using an App with the
learning from an LMS Content Baked-in
LMS
Model 2: Consuming optimised Model 4: Using an App “Container”
eLearning from an LMS to Load Content
Browse catalogue
LMS LMS
Download for offline
consumption
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7. HTML5
• HTML5 is the latest version of the HTML open Web
standard
– The term is used loosely and often encompasses CSS3 and
JavaScript
• HTML5 (together with CSS and JavaScript) lifts the
restrictions of earlier HTML standards by natively
supporting
– Advanced graphics
– Video and audio
– Typography
– Animations and many other interactive effects
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8. Remember.....
• You need to support multiple browsers
– IE6/7/8 still very common
• You need to support multiple device types (iPads leading
the charge but others on the way including Windows 8
tablets – end 2012)
• HTML5 alone won’t cut it – so you need an adaptable,
intelligent solution today
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9. Platform Ingredients
Authoring Tools
Rapid Authoring Web browser
Tool delivery All major browsers IE6 onwards
HTML5 Output
Learning Mobile Web
Platform browser
or App delivery
Content
Distribution
Hub
iPad, Android and Windows 8 tablets
Blogging Tools
Tracking
Mobile Web
browser
or App delivery
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10. Summary
• Tablets and in particular the iPad are fuelling the demand for mobile /
anytime / anyplace learning
• Windows 8 tablets (Q4 2012) will accelerate the corporate adoption
trend within the Enterprise
• HTML5 is an essential ingredient for any mobile solution
• Key questions:
– Does your learning strategy embrace mobile devices?
– Does your toolset support mobile devices?
– Does your LMS support mobile devices?
– How reusable is your content across devices?
– How does it fall back to support older browsers?
– How accessible is your HTML5 output?
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11. Questions?
Realising the Potential of Mobile Learning
Alex Mackman
Technical Director, CM Group Ltd
alexm@cm-group.co.uk
www.cm-luminosity.com/blog
@alexatcmgroup
© CM Group Ltd 2012

12. References
• Blog (www.cm-luminosity.com/blog)
– Flash and HTML5 for eLearning: http://www.cm-
luminosity.com/2011/11/21/flash-and-html5-for-elearning/
– Optimising eLearning for the iPad: http://www.cm-
luminosity.com/2011/11/05/optimising-elearning-for-the-ipad/
– eLearning Deployment models for the iPad: http://www.cm-
luminosity.com/2011/10/18/elearning-deployment-models-for-the-ipad/
– HTML5: Opening up New Possibilities for eLearning: http://www.cm-
luminosity.com/2011/09/22/html5-opening-up-new-possibilities-for-
elearning/
• iPad Trends:
– http://gigaom.com/apple/apple-iphone-event-live-blog/
– http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8994618/8m-tablets-to-be-
sold-this-year.html
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