Successful comprehensive mobile learning implementation for quick turnaround in the face of fast-changing regulatory environment.
Situation
NYSE listed company is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, powered by the world's most trusted news organization
Its professional division conducts and creates courses for compliance training in finance and other domains with dynamic and fast-changing regulatory environment
Challenge
The company wants to increase the reach of its compliance training
Wants to display the course material similar to a program conducted in the closed confines of a classroom
Mobile learning an emerging area and generally looked upon with some apprehension
Change of form-factor and capabilities create a challenge for effective course delivery and display on mobile
Harbinger Solution
iPhone client that supports downloadable courses with ability to search and preview content before course-taking
Client downloads and provides content in online as well as offline mode for faster access from any place
Course content and assessments customized for the iPhone screen form-factor and multi-touch navigation
Course progress synchronized with server and reflected with Learning Management and other systems on the backend
Technologies & Tools
iPhone 3.1 SDK
Xcode 3.2
3D Animations and Transformations (graphical courses)
Objective-C Language Cocoa Touch framework
Cocoa Touch framework
Benefits
Users from customer companies on top of regulatory and compliance updates with immediate course creation and delivery
iPhone usage markedly different from traditional mobile usage, resulting in successful mobile learning of compliance and regulatory framework changes