UBIQUITY AND REUSABILITY

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UBIQUITY AND REUSABILITY

• Judy Nix, Ericsson

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Content

• Background
• Market Situation
• Ericssons Training Situation
• LMS LCMS
• Creating Course Content
• Reusability
• Ubiquity
• What next?

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Background

• ILT (Instructor Led Training) developed according
  to an LPD (Learning Product Development) process
• eLearning content developed in flash, html, java
• mLearning content developed ad hoc

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eLearning
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mLearning Situation

• Project stage
• Experiments on Smartphones in using
• WAP
• HTML
• Flashlite
• Wanted position
• Deployment of course content on basic mobile
  phones

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Market Situation

• 28 Training Centres worldwide
• 714 technical courses
• 400 course flows
• 300,000 student days delivered in 2005

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Ericssons Training Situation

• Ericssons delivery methods include
• Instructor-led training or Classroom training
• elearning
• Simulations, delivered as streaming videos
• Online services scheduling, training reports etc
• Remote access training, where a customer trains
  on Ericsson equipment without having to leave
  their own country
• Virtual Classroom Training using online
  collaboration tools
• Podcasting
• Blended Training solutions, where various types
  of training can be grouped for example using
  elearning courses as a prerequisite to sitting
  instructor led courses
• Against a highly technical environment which is
  being updated constantly

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Learning Management System (LMS) Learning
Content Management System (LCMS)

• LMS (Sumtotal)
• Store, schedule and support training delivery
• LCMS (Exact Packager Giunti Labs)
• Resource store for course development
• Templates for ILT, eLearning and mLearning
• -Engine for course development

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Creating Course Content

• All content in the LMS is SCORM compliant
• Sophisticated metadata is applied to all content
• All course resources are tagged for maximum
  reusability
• Course developer selects appropriate course
  resources from the LCMS
• Course content is packaged as a mobile learning
  object for output to a mobile device

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Reusability/Flexibility

• Reusing existing content/resources for all course
  development including mobile learning
• Flexibility text from ILT, images from
  eLearning, voice over from simulations combined
  can be mLearning
• Assessments developed for mLearning can be used
  to assess ILT and eLearning courses

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Ubiquity

• Every course developer within Ericsson can create
  content using the same resources and media
• 2.5 billion mobile phone users in the world
• majority of mobiles can support Java and html as
  in games
• Large proportion can run flashlite
• Widest possible audience
• Our Delivery platform
• Via the LMS to customer extranet portals
• There is a mobile interface to the LMS

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What Next?

• Student Services
• Allows higher level of support of student before,
  during and after a training delivery
• Course administration become more personal to the
  student through their mobile
• Adds value to the training experience
• Fully integrated blended learning
• Course deliveries will a true blend of ILT,
  eLearning and mLearning
• Moving towards a more learner centric environment
• Mobile Broadband
• Delivering advanced media to the mobile phone
• Video, real-time interaction with the LMS, MPLS
  via the IP MultiMedia Subsystem (IMS)
• IMS suite of services facilitating mTutoring

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Questions?

• For further information
• please contact Judy Nix
• at judy.nix_at_ericsson.com
• Research sites include
• http//learning.ericsson.net/mlearning2
• www.ericsson.com/mlearning3
• - Mobile Learning A Practical Guide

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