Fabrizio Cardinali addresses Madrid’s Workshop on mobile learning
At the eMadrid Workshop on e-learning, being held at Ciudad Universitaria, in Madrid, on 1st and 2nd June, Fabrizio Cardinali will be discussing the latest trends in mobile learning.
Cardinali, who is Vice President of Global Business Development at eXact learning solutions, one of the world’s leading providers of learning content management systems (LCMS) and digital repository (DR) solutions, will be giving a presentation entitled ‘Mobile Learning: Myth or Reality? Theory, Trends and Cases’, from 10.15am on 1st June.
“Mobile learning is something you would use informally, on the move and often under time pressure, to continually refresh your knowledge, when and where it’s needed,” explained Cardinali.
“It should be as simple as possible on the front end, providing easy means to access and locate information quickly.
“But, on the back end, it requires some complex technology - which is able to profile your skills and competencies, your location and your device - to give you just the right piece of information, when you need it and where you need it. You might describe it as performance support on demand, anytime, anywhere.
“Learning content that has been developed for delivery via a desktop or laptop computer is unlikely to be able to be delivered via a mobile device without some modification – if only because of screen size,” he added. “This means that you have to develop a process – and there is much to recommend the view that such a process should be made available to all producers of learning materials – whereby learning materials can be chunked, that is, made into smaller ‘bites’ of learning which can be more easily delivered via a mobile device at the point of need.
“In turn, this means that content for mobile learning programs needs to focus more on essential information. This turns the learning program into more of an electronic performance support system – or even a learning ‘app’.
“With your mobile learning platform profiling the content as you need it, based on your background, the time, device and location available, you have an educational continuum following students and trainees wherever they need learning or wherever they ask for just-in-time support,” Cardinali said.
This second annual eMadrid Workshop on e-learning brings together members of the research community and the business environment to exchange ideas on the challenges, and the future, of e-learning. The event is co-ordinated by the Carlos III University of Madrid and includes delegates and speakers from the Autónoma University, Complutense University, Politécnica University, King Juan Carlos University of Madrid and the Distance Learning University UNED.
Delegates will discuss mobile devices’ capabilities and uses in the field of learning, including looking at the use of holographic or haptic technologies in education.
According to the event ‘s organisers, ‘recognised experts, such as Fabrizio Cardinali along with Marcus Specht of the Open University of the Netherlands, will explore the state of the art in mobile learning and discuss future trends in both the corporate and the academic sectors.’ Further details of the Workshop’s programme can be found at: http://www.emadridnet.org/en/ii-emadrid-workshop-elearning
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