According to a study 91% of USA population owns smartphones. This figure shows the importance of mobile friendly eLearning contents. It shows that how does this mobile world impact on your courses and contents. If you want to improve number of your audience, then it is important to target technology which have high penetration on population and should be looked closely. Nowadays smart mobile devices are involving in every category and you have to think about it, before going ahead. Some predictions show that 90% of UK adults have smartphones and 91% of US population already using smart devices with fast internet connectivity. Last time in 2014 number of mobile users increased by that of desktop users. After 2014 in Australia number of mobile increased from 42% to 50%, US users increased from 31% to 42% and UK smartphones/tablet PCs users increased from 24% to 44%. There are many reasons behind this achievement of smartphones in end user’s world.
Following are few reasons by which this trend of mobile devices increasing day by day.
Mobile Phones Are Convenient and Flexible
If you look on the current states, you will realize that in near future the mobile based technology will be everywhere in the offices, organizations etc. This is due to the reason that the high technology and improved device capability make these devices get faster, with smart look and more affordable. These are few reasons which make mobile learning an essential thing in the modern era. Nowadays due to small screen size this is often undertaken by most of the people on the go.
Mobile learning is considering the best technology for bite-sized learning. means smaller and specific learning sessions are easy to digest through mobile phones and smart devices. Furthermore, these are the devices which always be with users even if they are away from home or organizations, because sometime learners don’t have full access to desktops and laptops, so mobiles phones in this case will the final source/alternative.
Learn Anytime Anywhere
If there is interaction between learners and devices, then there is more chance to memorize things for long time. We all know that we forgot large percentage during training sessions and this percentage increases as the time passes. By providing learning materials in mobile format then there is possibility to remember things in long term memory for long time.
Improves Learners Engagement and Interaction
Besides all-time availability, mobile learning or mLearning can also provide features that conventional eLearning can’t. For example, location functionality on mobile devices, gives you a location specific learning experience. With the improved and large number of mobile users, as a learner you can join online communities where you can find problem solutions according to your area of interest. At the same way you can solve other problems from your own domain. This is a best approach to convert eLearning courses to mobile learning as future is all about smartphones and tablet PCs.
