Leveraging Custom E-learning Content Delivery through Personalized Mobile Devices

Corporate learners from all over the world are increasingly engaging with mobile platforms to collaborate with peers, access custom online learning content, and personalize their training experiences. Always-accessible smartphones and tablets provide learners with a new ecosystem of knowledge, expertise, and skills. Most of the learning and development professionals leverage the opportunity to use mobile devices as learning tools to train the workforce-anytime and anywhere. 

As mobile learning reaches beyond the four walls of the classroom, learners gain the flexibility to access training courses at their own pace of time and convenience. There are ample advantages of mobile-based custom learning for enterprises, both big and small, especially to boost learner engagement and improve knowledge retention. As per a research study by Gallup, 71% of millennials say they interact more with mobile learning than L&D activities imparted through a desktop or formal methods. [Source: https://news.gallup.com/poll/181289/majority-employees-not-engaged-despite-gains-2014.aspx]. Outlined below are some of the essentials for delivering successful mobile-based custom e-learning solutions:

• Leveraging mobile-empowered training content Training content that aligns with diverse business goals through a mobile initiative drives organizational success. It is important that the training curriculum supports activities including active forms of learning (creating and collating data) and passive forms of integration (reading information and watching videos). The mobile-enabled courses in the form of interactive videos, text, audio, or any other modality, are delivered as per the individual learning styles and preferences.

• Preparing trainers effectivelyThe effectiveness of mobile learning is also dependent on the quality of the trainers involved. Technological innovations help to empower learners’ performances by changing the ways training is delivered to them. This kind of development is quite challenging as learners not only acquire new skills but also unlearn about unconscious beliefs related to learning and development. As a result, the overall training strategy becomes more reliable for educators in obtaining relevant knowledge and expertise.

• Supporting self-paced learningIn today’s scenario, there are two significant aspects of successful corporate training. One, to deliver personalized education as per the pertinent needs of all and two, learning beyond an enterprise setting, including the external workforce. Therefore, custom mobile learning apps are designed to deliver easy to access and quick to digest content in the form of mini-games, quizzes, videos, infographics, and more. As a result, learners can access information at the point of need, thereby ensuring better learner collaboration, more engagement, and optimal workplace performance.

Going mobile is an effective way to impart learning, specifically to globally dispersed audiences. So, delivery of custom e-learning content through mobile devices is not just for learning on the go but being able to undergo training anytime and anywhere- at the office, at the factory floor, or home.