Clark Quinn on Designing Mobile Learning (Audio Interview)

Mobile Learning – seems to finally be tipping. 

If you’re involved with training, I suspect the push for providing mobile solutions is getting stronger.  Companies are starting to distribute iPads to their sales teams; practically everyone in corporate has a smart phone now.   

If you’re an Instructional Designer and freaking out that now you have to do mobile too – on top of everything else?! – let’s just calm down….

Start by listening to my recent interview with Clark Quinn. 

And then be sure to pick up Clark’s newest book: Designing mLearning: Tapping into the mobile revolution for organizational performance. 

Listen to the audio interview: Designing mLearning with Clark Quinn

Slow Learning

Clark Quinn has been talking up the concept of “slow learning.”

I love this concept.

He’s expounded on it a bit in his newest book Designing mLearning.

“Recognizing that natural learning is not an event, but a process that develops over time, the question is whether we can take a slower, more thorough approach to developing learners.”

“As a metaphor, think of drip irrigation versus the typical watering paradigm, a flooding. Instead of a massive dump of information that will evaporate, how about just a little bit at a time, reinforced (spaced learning, as above). You can do this unintelligently, like drip irrigation, but you can do more.”

So with the tools you have now, what can you be doing to design for slow learning?

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Quinn, Clark M., Designing mLearning: Tapping into the Mobile Revolution for Organizational Performance, Pfeiffer (San Francisco), 2011. p. 190-191

Clark Quinn: Designing mLearning

With lots on my reading list, Clark Quinn's latest book Designing mLearning: Tapping into the Mobile Revolution for Organizational Performance is on the top of the pile.

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That's my plan. I really don't want to get caught with my proverbial pants down...

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There’s nothing like unraveling a good mystery…

Clark Quinn and I take a crack at solving the crime of instructional design malpractice –happening now in an e-learning  module near you!

Listen to the conversation here in my latest edition of the Kineo Talks audio series.