How Far Has Smartphones Influenced Higher Education?

According to Nielsen, the leading US research firm, around 46% of people surveyed in Q4 2011 has been found to own a smartphone. Thus, with a majority of people having a smartphone, its influence is obviously reaching out to school and college campuses not only in USA, but across the world. Today, school and college goers are using a smartphone for a variety of purposes.

QR Codes

QR codes are square shaped images with black and white designs. They are used for several reasons such as: to create website links, store phone numbers, email ids, direction, and so on. Many universities are allowing their students to scan the QR codes using their smartphone cameras to be directed to the institute's website featuring a brief history of the campus area.

What Should Be the Right Approach Towards Mobile Based Learning

If you thinking about implementing mobile-based training in your organization soon, you must focus on one fundamental question: What is the best-suited approach to instigate the mobile learning strategy? This is because, without a proper approach, it is difficult to achieve any productive results.

Ideally, there are three approaches towards mobile-based training, which we are going to discuss here. Take a look and decide which one caters to your requirements the best.

Push Learning: This is one of the popular approaches, when it comes to training the sales team. In this process the learning content and information is "pushed" to the learners, and they have little choice in terms of the content they receive.