In a proclamation made at the end of December last year, Barack Obama, the President of the USA, named January 2011 as 'National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.' President Obama said: "Around the world and even within the United States, victims of modern slavery are deprived of the most basic right of freedom… We cannot strengthen global efforts to end modern slavery without first accepting the responsibility to prevent, identify, and aggressively combat this crime at home..."

To help in the campaign against 'trafficking in persons' (TIP), ADL, the Advanced Distributed Learning initiative, organised a pilot learning programme - known as the 'Mobile TIP course' - a general awareness course delivered via mobile devices to showcase the efficiency of mobile learning in targeting just in time and on the field training needs for US DoD staff around the world.

eXact learning solutions produced two versions of the mobile content, using its new eXact Mobile 2.0 platform to produce, store and distribute learning packages conforming to SCORM 1.2 'lite sequencing', with GEO location capability and a built-in interface to third party LMSs.

America's military personnel have had access to e-learning materials on TIP for some years but only 60% of these people ever completed the course. So far, there is evidence that the Mobile TIP course is proving popular with DoD personnel, meaning that the anti-trafficking message - and guidance on how to prevent human trafficking - is getting to more American servicemen.



For over 20 years, Bob Little has specialised in writing about, and commentating on, corporate learning - especially elearning - and technology-related subjects. His work has been published in the UK, Continental Europe, the USA and Australia.
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