International Relations and Security Network (ISN)

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2. Challenges of Mobile Learning in Security and Defense Learning Christian Glahn Mobile Instructional Design

3. About the ISN

4. The ISNis an Open AccessInformation Service for International Relations and Security Professionals Since 1994

5. Partner Network 243 ISN partners worldwide and growing

6. Main User Countries

7. ISN Activities Content and Analysis Digital Library Training and ADL Communities and Partners

8. Training and ADL

9. Today’s Training and ADL Practice in Security and Defense Organizations • Mostly learning facts • Content Centric • Multimedia • Summative Assessment

10. Today’s Training and ADL Practice in Security and Defense Organizations • Mostly learning facts • Content Centric • Multimedia • Summative Assessment Well supported by SCORM

11. The world has changed

12. The world has changed No Desk No Laptop Quick Always online (almost) Messy Mobile Personal

13. Challenges for Mobile Learning in Security and Defense Organizations

14. High Demand of Higher-order ProceduralSkills and Knowledge Complexity of international support and intervention • Desktops are often unavailable • Content is difficult for training for complexity • Complex collaboration and cooperation

15. Militaries supply their soldiers with smartphones Not only for ADL • Makes a good vehicle for ADL • Traditional ADL won’t work – too desktop oriented

16. Need for Continuous Training, Repetition, and Timely Updates Gaps between training and application • Higher order competences are hard to drill • Context of application • Assimilation of knowledge and skills • Greater flexibility and mobility

17. New Forms of Assessment IMS QTI won’t work out of the box • Good for testing facts • Cumbersome for mobile use • No support for assessing complex processes

18. Training becomes Performance Support Facts are easy for just-in-time delivery • Anytime access to reference material • Implications for training facts

19. More Audiences for Security Learning

20. Real Time Strategic Information Mobile social media • Security issues become of wider concern • Need for timely and contextualized data

21. Ongoing work on Mobile ADL

22. Mobile ADL Initiative ADL Mobile Learning Handbook Judy Brown & Jason Haag (2011) • Technology adoption • Devices • Technology constraints • Content adaptation

23. Mobile Research at ISN • Strategic forecasting of technology availability • Integration with existing ADL infrastructure • Mobile Demonstrators

24. Christian Glahn International Relations and Security Network (ISN) ETH ZurichSwitzerland www.isn.ethz.ch @phish108 @ISN_Zurich slideshare.net/phish108

25. 11th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual LearningmLearn 2012 - MOBILE LEARNING IN CONTEXTHelsinki, Finland - 16-18 October 2012- Call for PapersSubmissionsuntil 30. May 2012- Call for WorkshopsSubmissionsuntil 30. April 2012 Visit: http://www.mlearn.org

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