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Should Instructional Designers Consider Mobile Device In Design? Instructional designers typically design a course or training on their desktop, but as they design their instruction, they need to keep in mind how the design layout on a desktop adapts to a mobile device. Mobile devices are s martphones, iPads, tablets, and laptops, and these devices need to be considered in online course design because there is an increase in mobile learning (mLearning) (Eoghan, 2017). MLearning is simply “learning that takes place with the help of mobile devices” or learning on the go (Eoghan, 2017; Jacob & Issac, 2008). The video below provides some additional explanation of mLearning. Why consider mobile devices in instructional design? Ninety-five percent of Americans own a cell phone, with 77 percent of them owning a smartphone. The table below outlines the demographic breakdown of cell phone and smartphone owners in the United States of America (Pew Resea...
