Briefing at the CIMIC meeting at the CCOE, Enschede, the Netherlands

1. Mobile Learning
Challenges and Opportunities
Dr. Christian Glahn
Wednesday, 6 March 13

2. The research related to this presentation has been
funded by the ADL Co-Lab and awarded by the
Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) under the
grant no. N62909-12-1-7022.
The views expressed herein are solely those of the
author and do not represent or reflect the views of
any academic, government or industry organization
mentioned herein.
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3. Report on 1yr mLearning
for Security and Defense
at the ISN
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Content and Analysis Digital Library
Communities Training and ADL
About us
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5. Content and Analysis Digital Library
Communities Training and ADL
About us
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6. ADL E-Learning
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7. The world has changed
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8. What are the benefits of
mobile technologies?
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9. • Always within reach
• Always ready for use
• Personal information hub
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10. Tiny display
What are these small devices
really good for?
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11. Speaker Internet
connection
Color display Camera
Apps
Timers
Texting Cheap
Microphone USB connector
Every Mobile Phone
is a Smart Phone
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12. Our Objectives
Last Year
• Mobile readiness
• Mobile learning prototypes
• Proof of concepts
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13. Our Objectives
• Mobile readiness
• Mobile learning prototypes
• Proof of concepts
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14. Mobile Learning
Research
Börner et al., 2010
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15. Into which direction shall
organizations focus their energy first?
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16. There is no
strategic data for
this decision
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17. Mobile Readiness
Attitudes and device usage of
organizational members
• What do they have?
• What do they know?
• What do they expect?
• What would they do?
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18. Mobile Readiness
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19. Mobile Readiness
Need for Action
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20. We went and asked
the target audience
• 495 Participants • All branches
• All ranks • All statuses
• 13 Strategic Leaders (3%) • 419 Regular corps (85%)
• 124 Leading Pos. (25%) • 6 Reserve (1%)
• 72 Instructors (15%) • 19 Civil staff (4%)
• 235 Recruits (56%) • 50 Conscript (10%)
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21. One important finding
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22. General public
The basic technology
expectations are already
very advanced
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23. Our Objectives
• Mobile readiness
• Mobile learning prototypes
• Proof of concepts
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24. How to remove the barriers
of mobile learning?
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25. Mobile Learning
Research
Börner et al., 2010
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26. The Goal:
Integrate existing Infrastructure
Mobler Cards E-Books
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27. E-Books
Better reading experience than
PDF documents
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28. eBooks can be read
anywhere on any device
Reading tools are
available for free
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29. We don’t want to write
new eBooks
Transform SCORM
Content to e-Books
(on the fly?)
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30. Mobler Cards
Flash Card Learning
for Smart Phones
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31. Continuity of Learning
By Small Exercises
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32. LMS Integration
through Educational Technology Standards
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33. Insights and Motivation
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34. Our Objectives
• Mobile readiness
• Mobile learning prototypes
• Proof of concepts
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35. Adaptation Proof of
Concept
• Introduction to Nato
• Special mobile learning adaptation
• Building Defense Organizations
• No special adaptation
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36. Insights
• Transfer is possible
• Mobile learning resources need more
attention
• Designing for mobile learning helps to
increase quality
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37. Authoring Proof of Concept
• Full day train-the-trainers workshop
• 20 ADL professionals from military
academies
• Task: Create mobile learning content
with existing tools
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38. Insights
• All authors could create training material
• All authors could run their material on
their mobiles
• Using tools is no problem
• Creating sufficient content is time
consuming
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39. Conclusions
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40. We can lower the barriers
for mobile learning
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41. Mobile learning needs a lot of effort
but this wave is too big to ignore
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42. Christian Glahn www.isn.ethz.ch
@phish108
slidesha.re/phish108
IAMLearn.org
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