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Adopting Mobile Technology for Instructional and Performance Support. Leo Grassi, Head, Integrated Learning Environment Navy Medicine Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education Bethesda, Maryland. Past discussion.
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Adopting Mobile Technology for Instructional and Performance Support Leo Grassi, Head, Integrated Learning Environment Navy Medicine Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education Bethesda, Maryland
Past discussion • Corporate content developed and deployed via mobile devices in an organization needs to be reliable, relevant, and engaging. Reliability was understood as accessible through a dependable and secure infrastructure • Relevance was, in a sense, self-evident as the information disseminated should be meaningful and immediately deemed useful to the end user [electronic performance support, reference point of need]
Past discussion, Cont’d • Content must maintain user interest and attention through a variety of channels, leveraging video, audio, animation, and interactivity satisfying unique learner preferences for processing information • Organizations contemplating adoption of mobile technologies should ensure these are in direct alignment with its mission and vision, thus facilitating a return on the investment and consequently justifying the expenditure
A Framework for the Present • Needs assessment • Target audience [occupational/technology analysis] • Content to be developed [text, video, audio, input forms, images] addressing requirements [training/performance support] • Content type/output device relationship • Adopting industry best practices and standards • ICANN • dot mobi TLD, Network Solutions • Web development guidelines, rapid authoring options
Check it Out! • itsanywhere.mobi • http://showcase.mtld.mobi/ • http://www.networksolutions.com/learning-center/mobi-guide.pdf • http://www.buildmymobi.com/ • http://mtld.mobi/mobilenet/index.html
By 2010, it’s expected that half of the planet’s population will have access to the internet through a mobile device. Network Solutions [2007]