New Learning Trends in 2012

By Vivek Singhal


Did you notice the change in learning behaviours? The technological innovations have totally transformed the learning perceptions and introduced new categories like informal learning, social learning and learning at your workplace. Convenience and cost are all the more important to drive any time, any place learning supported by cloud solutions, smartphone and tablets. This comes with an enormous impact on how many of us think of training and education.

Changing Trends of Learning

1. TECHNOLOGY is taking over the traditional instructor led delivery methods.

2. Corporations demand rapid production and hosting at an affordable PRICE.

3. Transfer of high impression, interesting e-Learning into the WORKPLACE.

4. Creative use of STORIES, SCENARIOS and Videos in instructional designs.

5. Effective use of GAMES in training and education which provides true engagement, instant feedback and a feel of accomplishment.

6. Visually loaded and impressive DESIGN approaches.

7. Augmented Reality and KINECT will have visible additional movement.

8. Sustained advancement in TALENT MANAGEMENT.

9. SOCIAL learning might prove unsatisfactory option for corporates.

10. MOBILE learning is getting substantial in spite of the product line or services.

11. Cloud solutions, SAAS based products and on-line Authoring tools will definitely expand quicker.

12. VIRTUAL classrooms will be on the rise.

13. HTML5 is on growth upward wave to help you provide multimedia on smartphones.

Getting the grips of Mobile Learning

A device that almost everyone holds today from rich to poor, students to executives and a working woman to a housewife, what else can be a better source of delivery. With nearly perfected technology in smartphones and renewed infrastructure, we are stepping ahead for mobile learning outbreak. The affordable cost of Tablets is another example of where the learning industry will be in next couple of years. You must have noticed Aakash, popularly known as the world's cheapest tablet launched for just $35 by the Indian Government and provided about $150M in Union Budget 2012-2013.

The new eLearning development will follow 'less is more' strategy to deliver to the point content. The Instructional designers will have to consider the limitations of screen sizes, memory capacity, battery life and usability in new learning designs for mobile learning.

With increasing acceptance of smartphone and tablets there is a visible momentum in the mobile learning arena. However the question is that irrespective of the knocking opportunity for business, is mobile learning really a trend to watch in 2012?

Internet is accessed by a substantial number of users through their smartphones and if you add the tablet users then the number will be considerable and growing every day. A commercial organization has to gear up for the future market opportunity and start delivering some kind of mobile learning to create a market of its own. A lot of times the customer is not necessarily aware of the need and the benefits of the solution offered.

When REDTRAY presented the first mobile learning module to Amex, they immediately acknowledged the benefits. Typically decision makers implement the suggestions provided by a variety of publications, friends, so called experts and learning providers that may not be the correct choice. You can't make a right judgement unless you truly experience one of the modules provided by a learning specialist who actually recognizes your need.

Individuals are really getting used to of searching information off the clock and on their own terms. You can't overlook the extra flavour of overall flexibility with smartphone learning. When I was travelling from Paddington to Bath by train during the late hours, pretty much every person was going through something on their smartphone. There are actually limitless such types of business opportunities available to be knocked in a more innovative way. The goal should be to create smartphone friendly learning content that will deliver greater convenience to distant employees in corporate world.

Learning Technologies Show, Olympia, London Conducted live at REDTRAY's Cloud Lounge throughout the show, the REDTRAY Fast50 gives the hottest thinking available anywhere at UK. New observations and point of view are compiled from 50 show visitors at random, analysed and shared right away. Around the whole 29% proclaim they could bring tablets or iPads into the learning mix with no firm plans as yet.

The iPad has done well commercially however could not bring the desired impact on learning culture of professional workforce. Apple's tactic of not completely supporting Flash may not likely go well when about 75% of offered videos use the exactly same format. Several other tablet companies are preparing to support Flash and you will see the new entrants and changing technology moving forward. There's a fresh stream of online readership in order to alter the game. In addition the downloadable versions are actually getting well-accepted irrespective of the truth that I personally prefer to read books from the hard copy.

It will be interesting to keep an eye on exactly how businesses implement mobile learning throughout 2012 and ahead.




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