Memory cards and USB flash drives can particularly be appropriate for mobile video training, where hundreds of hours of video can be stored on a single memory card or USB flash drive. The consumer or user can simply carry this on their cell phones , viewable anyplace anytime anywhere. The military implications of this technical are particularly staggering. This a separate category from eBooks on memory cards or USB drives.
It is only recently, with the explosion of the latest generation of smartphones, and a tipping point of success stories to reflect upon, that mobile learning has truly come of age. Now is the time to understand what mobile learning can provide to your organization, and to do so you need to understand the basics of mobile learning.
Mo-DV technology particularly applies to mobile training. It permits any training videos to be played on billions of portable devices and permits the collection of Anlaytics Date relative to the viewing and interaction. Both these elements are covered in Mo-DV patents granted or in application. For example, there is a very large learning business in learning second languages, where video can be very helpful. There are many other training applications similar to this as well.
Location, Location, Location. As they say in real estate, location is everything. Being able to provide learning or support opportunities in a way that doesn’t force the user to a particular location (such as a classroom, or their office desk) reduces a significant obstacle to learning and performance improvement.
Freedom to learn when convenient. Similarly, time can be just as important as location. People increasingly want to make the most of their precious time, by being opportunistic and better using their otherwise downtime. Just as e-Learning can often provide a time savings over traditional classroom training, so too mobile learning is an efficient delivery mechanism that can provide the same knowledge transfer and assessment results, but in shorter time than either classroom or traditional e-Learning.
