Motivation towards learning at work is one of the biggest issues in any organization, and also ITCILO usually registers low attendance in staff development activities. Another problem is represented by fast turn over: many international organizations struggle to create meaningful learning opportunities for new comers, therefore facilitate integration of employees. A while ago I wrote…
I am getting back on the blog after some months. New research outputs will be published soon and in the meanwhile I also moved to the Netherlands, in Maastricht where I am currently hosted by the Open University of the Netherlands. During this period, I will be mostly focusing on assessing the impact of mobile…
Experimentation brings ideas to life. Building prototypes means making ideas tangible, learning while building them and sharing them with other people. Even with early prototypes you can receive a direct response and learn how to further improve and refine an idea. Last week we finally launched the very first output of this research project: the…
Last month I attended the international e-Learning Africa conference bringing together experts and change-makers in the ICT and Education industry. Nearly 1500 participants and over 300 speakers from 68 countries gathered for three days in the Ugandan capital Kampala. Mobile learning was one of the trends of course, with more than ten sessions organized around…
Learners’ attitude towards training is a fundamental element to be considered while conceptualizing the right mobile learning framework. Lack of motivation was actually considered one of the possible factors against low attendance in staff development activities at ITC-ILO in 2012. Moreover, it was also highlighted the lack of suitable incentives and rewarding strategy to make people learn…
Building on the Discovery phase findings, mobile learning has to be “on the spot” meaning that it has to be framed in a specific context, a concept not acknowledged by “anywhere, anytime” (David Parson, The Future of Mobile Learning and Implications for Education and Training). It has to be taken into account that we are…
Inspiration is the fuel for ideas. It is important to plan activities to learn from multiple people’s perspectives and explore unfamiliar contexts. Creating meaningful solutions begins with a deeper understanding of the audience’ needs. The goal of this phase was to identify multiple sources of inspiration to better frame the concept of mobile workplace learning and…
The issue of workplace learning has become increasingly important in the development of workforce skills in a time of increasing globalization, new technology and changing patterns of work. In fact, promoting workplace learning, in the context of lifelong learning ensures that workers’ skills are constantly renewed and adapted. However in such context of increased competition,…
It has now been 1 month and a half since my last post, what did happen in the meanwhile? I used the months of December 2013/beginning of January 2014 to get a better understanding of the “mobile learning” and “workplace learning” topics, and to identify good practices of using mobile technology for continuous learning at…
We are programmed to be a social networking species with an innate need to connect and communicate. … via short messages, a behavior that we learnt millennia ago. That is why we are inevitably moving towards the Mobile Society, where our mobile devices become the remote control for our daily lives. Because any technology that…
Mobile Workplace Learning 