Beyond Content: Using Mobile to Foster and Manage Informal Learning

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Mobile applications are uniquely positioned to help manage

learning integrated into work.

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On-the-job learning

Informal

FormalKinds of Learning at work ->

We most often learn by doing

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“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

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The unstructured nature of on-the-job and informal learning makes it hard to manage.

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It’s hard to keep employees accountable.

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It’s hard to provide support and coaching

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Mobile applications

make it easier to manage and

support informal and on-the-job

learning.

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Mobile applications go where the learning is.

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Mobile helps people learn while working.

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Mobile helps people get immediate feedback crucial to learning.

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For informal learning, mobile apps have to go beyond content.

Provide the

learning path

Match mentors

Track progre

ss

Reward participation

Inform Managers

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Mobile Training Tools

Calendars To-do lists Spreadsheets Pract.us – tool designed to manage work-

based learning

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“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.”

Yogi Berra

Learn more about effective, low-cost, experience-based training strategies

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