Creating for Mobile Learning
As content creators, it is important to keep in mind that our users access content on a variety of devices, the most common and convenient one being a mobile phone. Hence, it is imperative that we create content that renders coherently on a mobile device, and is easy to navigate. Below are three sites that we can not use as a guideline for our own content creation, but also as a guideline for content and design quality.
GCFLearnFree.org has been a leader in adult learning skills for nearly 20 years. Their content is designed with key principles of adult learning including chunking, accessibility, and visual elements. View the site on your laptop/desktop and a mobile device.
Explore GCFLearnFree and make a note of how content is chunked and organized.
Choose a content topic and chunk it into 10 subtopics that will simplify the topic.
Slide presentations are a quick and simple way of designing content for adult learning.
Prezi is a one such slide creation tool that allows you to create mobile-friendly slide presentations.
Follow the Prezi tutorial (link below) on GCFLearnFree and create a mobile-friendly presentation for adult learners.
(Use the content topic and 10 subtopics from the previous tile.)
Accessibility and portability are important considerations for all learners, and especially adult learners.
Content that is available via multiple formats makes learning more accessible to the adult learner.
Podcastle is an AI-powered tool that (in addition to a host of other features) allows for quick audio content creation from text input.
Use at least 3 different AI generated voices to add variety to your audio lesson.
Export your audio in a mobile-friendly format (mp3).
