In his opening remarks, Tony Bingham stressed the importance of accelerating the employee development process, especially for millennials. When surveying millennials, some trends emerged. First, online communications are essential. Millennials value their mobile devices and the information they can receive… over even money.
Bingham emphasized the importance of becoming more mobile with our training efforts. Manufacturers sold 472 million smartphones in 2011, and they expect that number to keep rising. We need to develop shorter courses for mobile devices that users can access anytime and anywhere. We need to increase the mobile impact on performance support. Security is an important consideration.
Where do we start with a strategy to take mobile learning to the next level?
- Think mobile
- Start small
- Find an executive sponsor
- Partner with IT
- Identify impact
- We can not wait!!
Here are the things I plan to work on:
- Get sites set up for mobile learning such as WordPress and Moodle.
- Develop a podcast series.
- Develop bite-size blocks of learning content.
- Build a mobile page to access all resources including publications.
I really enjoy attending ASTD conferences because they get me fired up and help me set direction. As we said in the Air Force, it gives me a chance to be “Reblued.”
