Dublin/London (IR/UK), December 2006 - Intuition, the technology-enabled learning provider, has deployed a fully trackable mobile eLearning course for PDAs such as BlackBerry®. The course has been developed for financial services institutions and enables users' progress to be tracked and recorded automatically.
Mobile learning has become popular with the financial services industry in particular because of the growing need for employees to complete mandatory training courses around new banking and trading regulations. Mobile learning enables employees to make use of naturally occurring periods of 'down time' - such as the daily commute or business trips - for training purposes.
Mandatory training also has to be accessible to staff in the most convenient formats possible to ensure uptake across the board, and trackable mobile learning represents the latest advance in "anytime, anywhere" training.
Intuition's mobile learning technology was developed to meet the needs of typical mobile users, who actually only use their PDA for a short period of time but may access it 30-40 times during the day.
The mobile device user typically also has quite a short attention span, so the content needs to be targeted, specific, and punchy in order to engage the user's interest. The targeted content can include information or specific courses on product spotlights or updates, regulatory requirements, organisational procedures, and policies and case studies.
David Harrison, Chief Executive of Intuition, commented, "We are seeing demand for these sorts of courses rise considerably as companies are increasingly required to produce records of staff learning. Therefore, the ability to update individuals' progress directly to their learning management system is hugely beneficial. We believe this method of trackable mobile learning will become an integral part of organisations' training programs in the very near future."
