902 Successful Ecosystems for Enterprise mLearning
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Friday, June 12
Management
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Mobile devices and applications have finally worked their way into the learning landscape, enabling organizations of all sizes to leverage modern wireless wonders to deliver training, performance support, and business communications to their on-the-go workers. Great devices and rapid technology adoption don’t always outweigh the myriad challenges that hold back mLearning projects, from scaling from smaller pilots to larger implementations. Next-generation ecosystems require next-generation tools, approaches, and teams to ensure adoption, continued utilization, and success.
In this session you will be empowered to move beyond newly minted mobile learning strategies to start applying an array of valuable lessons learned from case studies across industries and geographies. You will learn what works and what doesn’t and where hype ends and reality begins. You will explore proven processes for selecting the right tools, devices, audiences, and objectives that can bring experience and confidence to training teams who have yet to introduce mobile options to address their field training, performance support, and business communications needs.
In this session, you will learn:
- Which mobile devices are practical for on-the-go learning
- Which authoring tools, libraries, and media types are effective for mobile
- Why yesterday’s approaches to progress tracking and reporting fail to meet tomorrow’s cloud-based demands
- Why mobile learning project teams are bigger, broader, and more multidisciplinary than their traditional online counterparts
Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, and
managers.
Technology
discussed in this session:
Apple iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Microsoft Windows Phone.
Robert Gadd
President
OnPoint Digital
Robert Gadd is president of OnPoint Digital and responsible for the company’s vision and strategy. OnPoint’s online and mobile-enabled offerings support more than one million workers and include innovative methods for content authoring, conversion, and delivery extended with social interactions, gamification, and enterprise-grade security for workers on their device or platform of choice. Prior to OnPoint, Robert spent 10 years as CTO of Datatec Systems and president/CTO of spin-off eDeploy.com. He is a frequent speaker on learning solutions—including mobile, informal learning, xAPI, and gamification—at national and international T&D conferences.
Dave Smelser
VP, Business Development
OnPoint Digital
Dave Smelser, a vice president of business development at OnPoint Digital, has helped design and deliver technology-enabled learning solutions in the enterprise for several years. Dave previously worked in software integration at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics and in Ernst & Young’s Technology and Security Risk Services practice. Through a strong understanding of technology and the practical realities of the business world, Dave has assisted many Fortune 1000 companies in yielding real, measurable results through implementations of various learning technologies. Dave holds both bachelor and master of science degrees in decision and information sciences from the University of Florida.