Mobile Learning - Use of Android Devices

Since November 2014, I started a new drive as part of my contributions to leverage digital literacy in Papua New Guinea through empowering individuals, organizations and corporate bodies in various Information & Communications Technology (ICT) training.  The focus now is in establishing a clear vision for the future in terms of learning and development and by far, the future will be more technology-oriented.  The world will get smaller and smaller and everything will be at the tip-of-our-fingers.  Learning will be enforced through the use of mobile devices and applications and therefore, we need to educate our people on how to effectively use mobile and android-powered devices to access digital contents or any other available learning resources from anywhere at anytime.  

Information providers, in particular - content developers have looked at easing users' burden to access digital information by bringing the information to the user and not like what used to happen before where users go to search for the information.  Likewise, software developers and hardware manufacturers have already worked on developing platforms that will fit the future.  It is now time for content creators/ developers worldwide to educate the users on how they could use these platforms to help them learn better and even fit into the ever-changing world.

From a general observation I did in various places I visited last year (Hawaii, Australia, Taiwan) including Papua New Guinea, a lot of people these days do not spend time to read the manuals, instead head-on straight to using the services hence resulting in them not utilizing the full potentials of the services they use.  This applies to both the hardware and software that people use.

Content designers/ developers must learn to change the way they present their content by adapting to approaches that is going to be convenient in future and cope with global trends.  There are many things happening these days in regard to technology & learning, and  the barrier I observed was "Knowing How" so I hope more volunteers would rise to help minimize the gap.

Well, I've recently conducted few trainings here in Port Moresby in line with my goal.  Images in this post are some of the recent workshops & trainings I conducted.  Featured here are the training conducted to an android supplier to help them talk the language of the future when selling their android devices and the other was for academics to utilize android-powered devices to deliver learning resources and go paper-less.


There are few other workshops and training I am currently preparing for various schools and corporate bodies in the weeks and Months to come which I will also post to share in this blog.

Tag along if you'd like to hear more of my drive to promote the use of android-powered devices in mobile learning.