A simple (mostly black-and-white) guide to starting your mobile learning project Image: “NFC Phone” by Andrew Forrester, from The Noun Project By Minjuan Wang & Greg Snow EDTEC, SDSU 1

Not eLearning Courses on Mobile Devices! 2

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Taken from presentation slides by Advanced Distributed Learning entitled, “Mobile Learning: Not Just Another Delivery Method” Available at content/uploads/2013/01/ml_not_just_another.pdf 5

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Model: LTCS+D Location, Technology, Culture, and Satisfaction (LTCS) 7

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Starting your project: analysis What are the user needs? Yuri Mamaev, from The Noun Projec Image: “New user” by Yuri Mamaev, from The Noun Project 11

Image from Udell’s Learning Everywhere, p. 28 Starting your project: analysis 12

Image: “Team” by Shane Miller, from The Noun Project What information does your team already have? Starting your project: analysis 13

Image: “Jealousy” by Luis Prado, from The Noun Project What are other organizations (or the competition doing)? Starting your project: analysis 14

Content Strategy and mLearn Web design circle in the late 1990s As a way to increase meaningful, long-term user engagement Plans for the creation, publications and governance of useful, usable content (Halvorson, 2008) 15

Content Strategy defines (P ) Key themes and messages Recommended topics Content purpose (how content can bridge the gap between audience needs and business requirements) Content gap analysis Search Engine Optimizatin, and Implications of strategic recommendations on content creation, publication, and governance 16

Keep in Mind… Make a content strategy first Like curriculum design: what, when, how… “Shrinking the courses to fit the small screen is not adequate for creating a great learning experience.” Distribution of Content LMS, web app, mobile app, or even just SMS Maintenance of Content Who owns, publishes, updates 17

Image from Udell’s Learning Everywhere, p. 76 Starting your project: determining content types 18

Why Categorizing To focus on user’s application usage What will the experience look like? What will the primary functionality be? What date types or services will be available to user, and How will access to these services work? 19

Convert already-existing best content to mobile? Images from The Noun Project: “Education” by Chris Matthews; “Play” by dsathiyaraj ; iPhone5 by The Noun Project; “Computer” by Alyssa Mahlberg; “Modify” by Piotrek Chuchla; “Document” by Joe Richardson dsathiyaraj OR 20

Step 3: Specifically, which of the four content types are you going to be using? Meet with your Team and/or Client to Start! Readings: Chad’s Chaps 6-9 on Types of content 21