Mobile learning

Mobile learning is content designed for use on a mobile device: short units, thumb-operated, readable on a small screen and usable away from a fixed workplace. It is emphatically not the same as an existing course that happens to open on a phone.

A large share of the industrial workforce has no desk and no company laptop. For that group the phone is not an extra channel but the only channel.

Two practical matters decide whether it succeeds. First, connectivity: in a basement, a tank or at sea there is no network, so content has to work offline and synchronise later. Second, the device: many employees have no company phone, so it has to work on their own handset without an app store installation and without the employer reaching into their private data.