If you are intrigued by the future of learning design, you won’t want to miss the second half of this interview with Karl Kapp. Coach: What types of challenges do newer technologies, such as mobile and podcast, present to the instructional designer? Having said that, another challenge confronting instructional designers is to “think outside the classroom” paradigm. Designers need to get their heads out of the design books and into other media to see how its done outside the field. Post from: The eLearning Coach The Future Of Learning Design. MORE >>

The learner dynamics will have a profound impact on the overall design of the learning environment or course architecture and the tools you will use to design the learning environment. Security can be an issue What is the security you need to deliver your mLearning content or design your mLearning project? This will affect your design in open (Cloud) or closed (behind firewalls, more secluded…). It also affects the devices that will be designed for. How will you design the content? mobile mLearning mobile learning design instructional design MORE >>

Mobile hardware has its own limitations and hence we need to adhere to some critical design conventions in order to make our mobile applications a success. Any mobile learning solution that we design needs to be easy to use even when our target audience is on the move. That means that our designs need to be graphically light. Our mobile learning solutions need to be designed in a way that’s optimized for a Smartphone screen resolution, and does not require the learners to zoom or scroll. That’s a huge market whose needs we can hardly afford to ignore. Limitations. MORE >>

I have been giving a lot of presentations this year, trying to spread the word on what I perceive as good design or process principles. Conferences Mobile Development Mobile Web User Experience 1871 Chicago design process process principles responsive design responsive principles Techweek uxMy next one will be [.]. MORE >>

videos on mobile design, and each of them have key ideas that affect learning with mobile devices. The presentation by Stephanie Rieger explores how our use, and perception of mobile devices is changing, and how these changes may impact how we should design for them going forward. so flexible, light weight websites are the way to go with m-design. Another webinar that got my attention was the presentation by Stephen Hay on Responsive mobile design. Stephen explains responsive design in a pleasant, humorous way. mobile designGreat stuff. MORE >>