Enterprise Mobility is making inroads into every industry. Organizations are leveraging the power of mobile applications to increase effectiveness and efficiency of communications and business operations. Mobile Learning Solutions hold tremendous opportunities for e-learning companies, e-learning platform providers, colleges, universities, schools, teachers, students and even corporate trainers. Mobile Learning will revolutionize the way students learn and teachers teach. Join our informative webinar and learn how you can leverage this massive opportunity. What you will learn in this Webinar ==> Enterprise Mobility: Shape of Things to Come ==> Mobile Learning Solutions: mLearning ==> Currently Available Mobile Apps For Learning and Teaching ==> Want to Develop Your Own App? How to get started ==> Challenges and Best Practices for mLearning ==> Q&A

1. Webinar
Mobile Learning Solutions: How to Get Started
Presented By:
Deval Shah
Jay Patadiya

2. Agenda
Enterprise Mobility: Shape of Things to Come
Mobile Learning Solutions: mLearning
Currently Available Mobile Apps For Learning and Teaching
Want to Develop Your Own App? How to get started
Challenges and Best Practices for mLearning
Q&A

3. Agenda
Enterprise Mobility: Shape of Things to Come
Mobile Learning Solutions: mLearning
Currently Available Mobile Apps For Learning and Teaching
Want to Develop Your Own App? How to get started
Challenges and Best Practices for mLearning
Q&A

4. Future of Mobile Apps
Source – MobileFuture.org

5. Future of mLearning
 The US market for Mobile Learning products and services reached $958.7 million in
2010 and expected to reach $1.82 billion by 2015.
 Asia Mobile Learning Market Soared to $2.6 Billion in 2012 and expected to grow to 6.8
Billion by 2017.
 eLearning Revenues in Africa Will Double to $512.7 Million by 2016.
 Worldwide Mobile Learning Market to Reach $9.1 billion by 2015.
 Top four early adopter countries of mLearning are US, Japan, England, Australia.
Emerging high growth rate markets are China, India, Indonesia, & Brazil.
Source - Ambient Insight’s Survey

6. Agenda
A Enterprise Mobility: Shape of Things to Come
Mobile Learning Solutions: mLearning
Currently Available Mobile Apps For Learning and Teaching
Want to Develop Your Own App? How to get started
Challenges and Best Practices for mLearning
Q&A

7. Advantages of mLearning
 Anywhere & Anytime: Provides learner the ability to assimilate learning anywhere
and at any time.
 Flexibility: Gives the instructor more mobility for creation of on the spot & on the
field learning & test material.
 Appealing: Smart phone users increasing day by day and it helps to attract more
and more users.
 Remain competitive: it is essential to make eLearning applications accessible
through mobile devices to remain competitive in the market.
 Reduce Operating Cost: Bring Your Own Device(BYOD) concept helps the
organizations to reduce the infrastructure cost.

8. Types of mLearning
 VLE Based Learning
Virtual Learning Environments include creating such apps and web based VLE access
 Content Delivery
This includes podcasting and mSCORM package delivery
 Instant Test Results
Mobile devices can act as a quick way to create user tests and record the test achievement.
 Just in time training
Deals with an individual’s need for an answer to an immediate problem.
 Collaborative Learning
Using Social Networking Apps and Learning in a Group
 Augmented Reality
Digital devices equipped with camera and reality browsers
 Learning Support
This can include campus maps for students, dictionaries, timetables etc.
 eLearning Games
Learning Games using extensive graphics and animations.

9. Usage & Users of mLearning
 Education Industry
– Education Institutes, Colleges, Universities, Students, Tutors etc.
 Private Organizations & Business Houses
– Induction Training Materials.
– Manufacturing Process Training.
– Organization Operations Training.
– Sales Process Training.
– Product Usage Training
– Hospitalities
 Hospitals & HealthCare Companies
– New Medical Equipment usage Training.
– Training to Doctors & Nurses for new methods of curing.

10. mLearning User Statistics

11. Agenda
A Enterprise Mobility: Shape of Things to Come
Mobile Learning Solutions: mLearning
Currently Available Mobile Apps For Learning and Teaching
Want to Develop Your Own App? How to get started
Challenges and Best Practices for mLearning
Q&A

12. Currently Available Mobile Apps For Learning and Teaching

13. Examples of mLearning – Apps Developed by Cygnet
iVocabulary iFeed App
Learn English Learning App for doctors

14. Examples of mLearning – Apps Developed by Cygnet
mLearning in hospital Pre- School Game
Learn about Whales Story Telling App

15. Agenda
A Enterprise Mobility: Shape of Things to Come
Mobile Learning Solutions: mLearning
Currently Available Mobile Apps For Learning and Teaching
Want to Develop Your Own App? How to get started
Challenges and Best Practices for mLearning
Q&A

16. Want to Develop Your Own App? How to get started…
Steps for Creating/Implementing mLearning Solutions
 Determine Objectives & Target Audience
 Design Considerations
― Short and to the point content
― Content should be light
― Keep it simple
― Shorter duration
― Smaller chunks of context-independent content
― Concept of fun learning – Edutainment
― Distributed Learning
― Limit Graphical Content

17. Want to Develop Your Own App? How to get started…
 Development Considerations
― Decide the mLearning Platform/OS (i.e. iOS, iPod, Android, BB, Windows
Phone 7 & 8, PhoneGap, HTML5 etc)
― eBooks requires specific ePub formats and SDK
― Native Application Vs Browser Based Applications
― Decide Database Planning – Cloud Vs Private Hosted
― Online Dynamic Content Delivery or Offline Mode
― DITA standard based content
― Decide Communication Mechanism – SMS, Chat, E-Mail, Video Calls, Push
Notifications & Voice
― Interactivity Mechanism
― Integration with Payment Gateways
― Content Security

18. Want to Develop Your Own App? How to get started…
 Tools Considerations
― Authoring & Publishing Tools for mLearning
― Specific Industry Compliance
 Implementation Considerations
― Security & Support
― Device Considerations – BYOD Vs Distribution
― Organization Wide Policies

19. Agenda
A Enterprise Mobility: Shape of Things to Come
Mobile Learning Solutions: mLearning
Currently Available Mobile Apps For Learning and Teaching
Want to Develop Your Own App? How to get started
Challenges and Best Practices for mLearning
Q&A

20. Best Practices for mLearning
Best Practices
 Prototyping
 Selection of Right Technology Vendor
 Media Considerations
 Limit Use of Data Entry
 Authentication of users and device prior to granting access

21. Challenges for mLearning
Technical Challenges
 Small device screen and key size is not very convenient
 Places where mobile phone signals are not available, hampers your learning.
 Process of converting content from web to mobile is not easy
 Battery life of the device plays an important role
 Hovering is limited in touch based devices
 No Support for shortcut keys
 Mobile Device have their own volume controls
 Content security by the author
Educational Challenges
 Difficult to measure effectiveness of learning
 No demographic boundary
 Access to and use of technology in developing countries
 Different from the conventional accepted modes of learning

22. Agenda
A Enterprise Mobility: Shape of Things to Come
Mobile Learning Solutions: mLearning
Currently Available Mobile Apps For Learning and Teaching
Want to Develop Your Own App? How to get started
Challenges and Best Practices for mLearning
Q&A

23. Questions?

24. Thank You