Developing a mobile learning solution: Judy Brown, a key thinker in academic mobile learning strategies, offers sage advice for those considering a mobile learning initiative. Whether you aim to create educational apps or informative tutorials delivered via mobile, use this checklist to develop your strategy.
1. Define Your Objectives
- Why do you want a mobile learning project?
- What unique result do you want to achieve?
- How you will know when you have met your goals?
- How will you evaluate your effectiveness?
2. Define Your Audience
- For whom is your mobile initiative intended?
- What user support do you need to provide?
3. Define Your Budget
- What do you need to get the project done?
- How are you going to fund it?
- How long will you be able to sustain it?
4. Identify Your Instructional Strategies
- Is it an interactive team / community network?
- Is it a broadcast distribution framework?
- Is it for formal learning programs or informal learning assets?
- Who is going to produce the content (e.g. is it going to depend on community or commercially produced content)?
- Where is the content going to reside?
- Who is responsible for placing content in repository?
- What content distribution methods will be used (e.g., web delivery, copyright, registration for use, charges, etc.)?
- What content management mechanisms need to be in place?
- How will you assess learning?
5. Identify Your Stakeholders
- Who are your major stakeholders?
- What will your stakeholders need to be successful?
6. Identify the Technology
- Who will provide the service?
- What kind of reception technologies will be used?
- What content creation tools will be used?
- What network will be used for distribution?
- What security mechanisms will you have in place?
- What kind of user interface will you use?
- What user support will you provide?
7. Determine Intellectual Property
- Who is going to own the work?
- Who owns the right to content?