Mobile learning solutions are a relatively new domain which is rapidly evolving that makes its implementation a challenge for every project. However if an educational mobile app development company follows these steps, they can easily create such mobile learning solutions.

1. Study the need: Though this step is very basic but it is often ignored. In the need to start the project quickly, a majority of the educational mobile app development company in the market spend little to no time studying the need for their mobile learning solutions. This is because of a lack of understanding in what mobile learning solutions are and how to implement them properly.

2. Assess the readiness: Even if there is a well established need for mobile learning solutions at a workplace in terms of training material or ease of access, it does not readily translate to them easily embracing such mobile learning solutions. An educational mobile app development company can check these key elements that point towards the readiness of a population:

• Profile of the target audience
• Management’s appreciation of the role of mobile learning solutions
• Culture of the particular workplace in terms of social learning
• Learning strategy of your mobile learning solutions to engage all ages of audience

3. Supported devices and platforms: Although as it stands the major part of the market is captured with either Android or iOS but windows phone 8 is also upcoming which looks promising while even the Blackberry is refusing to give up just yet. Add to that the various flavours of android especially on a BYOD model and the market gets confusing very fast. One needs to consider screen sizes that vary from 3.5” to 11”, a variety of matrix systems and now the latest entrants to the market are the foldable screens. All have to be considered by an educational mobile app development company before you start writing even the first letter of the storyboard or code. Some companies provide their own specific phones to the workforce but such companies are few and far between.

4. Choose a delivery path: Several options exist for this and none of them are better than the rest. You need to choose one that works best for you. These delivery options are:

• Authoring tools need to be chosen that provide real HTML5 compatibility and are not just embedding videos inside the HTML code. Authoring tools are now getting better and allow for a range of animations and interactives to be embedded easily in HTML5. Some products also provide inbuilt authoring tools which can be a new form of learning through peer involvement.
• Native apps are an expensive way to make any of the mobile learning solutions but some clients still prefer them as they work best in areas with no or less connectivity. Cross platform tools help in this regard to an extent though their usage is quite minimal in such situations. Common issues with native apps are lack of support for all features and slower performance that hits user experience.
• LMS integration is also ordered by some old time clients though it is losing its meaning when it comes to mobile learning solutions other than to track if they have been opened or some other minimal intervention.

5. Content: It is a huge myth that everything that used to work earlier as flash based elearning material can now be transported directly to one or the other mobile learning solutions. In many cases it is possible but not for all and one needs to be judicious in propagating this fact, lest you lose your big international project. Mobile learning solutions work best with short nuggets of information that help learn on the move. They should be utilised in situations when the staff is performing and get stuck or forget something or need some help. Identifying such content and making relevant nuggets of learning solutions is the best way ahead. One should also keep in mind the changing face of mobile learning solutions where now increasingly ‘user generated content’ is being utilised to impart learning.