mLearning, mInteresting

mLearning offers truly anytime, anyplace learning. I can imagine a number of excellent applications for workplace learning, and in a past role would have loved to implement this.

However, there still seem to be so many limitations. First, for students there is the cost barrier.  In a workplace, this might not be as significant an issue, but the there are others. It is difficult to format the content without knowing exactly what type of screen people will use to view it. In addition, download speeds can be slow for large amounts of content, or slow enough to interrupt the learning experience. It requires custom design, so it doesn’t seem like it’s just a matter of transferring existing materials over. Much like the classroom to online conversion, there are many factors to consider, and it becomes a completely new learning experience.

I was somewhat surprised that accessing Vista from by iPhone was so easy.  However, as soon as I tried to open a discussion forum message and found that new windows were opened, I started to lose my place. The speed when connected via my home wifi was good, but not amazing, and it seemed that the pages reloaded every time I clicked a link.

If I was taking a course in Moodle, I’d be curious to try mTouch, the Moodle app available for $2.99. After reading the description, I wasn’t clear about what was required on the admin side to optimize for the app.