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Learning's mobile revolution
Lisa White, head of Marketing, Kallidus,
explains how mobile learning offers a
significant win for organisations and
learners
Increasing competition, burgeoning
organisational complexity and a digital-driven
fourth industrial revolution are all contributing
to an unstoppable reconfiguration of how
workers learn.
Mobile's revolution is under way
Mobile is prompting a revolution in enterprise
learning as learning and development (L&D)
functions respond to competitive forces
unleashed in this digital age. Remote
workers are an increasingly dominant part of
today's rapidly changing diverse global
workplace.
To develop and update an agile workforce
needs an agile response: mobile devices
and technologies are increasingly able to
meet the demands of all types of mobile
workers.
With the rise in remote workers it can be no
surprise that mobile learning is also
predicted to rise sharply. MarketsandMarkets
forecasts the global mobile learning market
to grow from $7.98 billion in 2015 to $37.60
billion by 2020, at a compound annual
growth rate (CAGR) of 36.3%.
On the job learning
Organisations need their workers to be able
to learn on the job - at the point of need -
wherever that job is - office, supermarket, oil
rig, on the way to a client meeting. On the job
learning is now a must.
Training has to happen when and where
employees need it not when the bricks and
mortar classroom is available. So mobile
learning has become the essential tool in
L&D's workbag driven by the rise in the use
of smartphones and tablets.
These are now seen as essential in our
personal lives and that is spilling over into
our work lives. In 2018, 66% of individuals in
52 of the world's key countries will own a
smartphone, up from 63% in 2017 and 58%
in 2016, according to Zenith's Mobile
Advertising Forecasts 2017.
Lisa White
Head of Marketing
Kallidus