In one year, a small team at DanChurchAid developed and tested mobile learning solutions on Mine Risk Education, Cash Transfer Programmes, and an app-based Village Saving and Loans Association. Hear their story and discover how any organisation can develop mobile technology projects without a large budget. Learn basic design principles for mobile learning, tools and ideas to make cost-effective mobile courses, and practical tips and tricks.

1. Developing Mobile Learning
Without a Large Budget
DanChurchAid, Denmark
7th February 2018, Arusha – Capacity4Humanity
Christoffer Bengt, cbjo@dca.dk, Technology Lead
Simon Skårhøj, ssk@dca.dk, Team Leader

2. DCA Learning Lab
• Specialized Learning Innovation Team
• In-house production capacity
• Open Innovation, Partnerships
• Evidence-based, focus on cost-effectiveness

3. IN PAIRS
Identify 3 opportunities and 3
limitations in mobile learning

4. Design Model

6. Offline
Mobile Delivery

7. Creating an app from scratch?
+ Everything is possible
+ 100% custom-made
Costly -
Developer needed -
Long start-up -
Script production -
Rigid design process -
Update expensive -

8. What to do?

9. Wide experience with
“authoring tool” software
Experts in conventional
digital learning
Digging into our own experience
Easy to use and understand
Accessible and interactive content
Can be used on any Learning
Platform (it’s SCORM)

10. Why not make it into an app?
SCORM
AppApp

11. Asking around
Only little experience with this
&
Very expensive

12. Open source to the rescue
Same foundation for developing an offline
SCORM-player for smartphones
Previous collaboration with Moodle
Working with our service provider on our
Moodle platform

13.  No coding
 No external service providers
 Easy updates
One app for many trainings
SCORM

14. Our apps

15. Our apps

17. Our apps

21. User-test and
evidence-based

22. User-test and
evidence-based

23. Change from 2,08 to 4,17
(out of 5)
User-test and
evidence-based

25. Q & A