On the beach walking into the foothills The State of Mobile learning

World or the Jungle of Web 2.00

http://pthsteachers.pbworks.com/Web-Tools

Interactive Multimedia changes...

• Individual lifestyles• Work, its location and organisation• Government:local, regional, national• Commerce, retail and finance• Entertainment• EducationALL IN ONE GENERATION

Chris Yapp 1999

A Technology Agenda

• Internet/WWW• Virtual Reality• Interactive Media/DVD• Voice Recognition• Quantum/Biological/Fuzzy computing• ATM/DAB/DVB/DTT/UMTS• Intelligent agents• Smart devices/homes• Systems Integration

Chris Yapp 1999

Backing winners choosing technologies

Lesson of technology history Everybody has always the killer technology – The book– Cassette tape – VHS – betamax– Laser Disk– Cd – DVD – MP3

Technologies come and go learning doesnt

The age where you chose technology is gone or at least going

The pace of technology change will slow and become more incremental

Examples of getting it wrong

• Every town will need a telephone • The world will only need 5 or 6 computers • SMS will never catch on • The internet is a new idea of a network

(Learn from the telegraph in the US in the 1890 )

The Growth of Mobile

International telecoms unit http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tUzZsw5SoG_jXRDl6p8tRCg&single=true&gid=0&output=html

Google spreadsheet of International Telecoms Union (ITU) data on mobile phone penetration for all countries from 1998-2008Live chart player

So in short get on with it

Avoid the classic mistakes• Give students your chosen device (they will have 1,2,3 already)• All students will have access and use high end function devices• Learners just want you to invade there existing digital networks• The lie of the Digital Native • Build it and they will come• Choose on technology approach and stop looking at others • Assume that adoption is incremental and assured • That you can control adoption and use of mobile• Beware of the unexpected positives and negatives

Helpful tips

• Digital residents and digital visitors• Learners are individuals and don't make assumptions • Learners aren't always your biggest challenge or you biggest

threat • Collaboration and shared approaches with local variation are

good thing

The technology connectivity inverted pyramid

Ubiquitous

widespread

geeky

Actually multiple pyramids

Mobile Learning or Learner Mobility

1 :1 computing doesn't mean Solo learning Adults children learn better in groups whereas OLPC project premised on solo learningContent is important but collaboration is King Location and context are trends to watch

The question to ask?

• Where do you want to be in the long term 5 year• Where do you want to be in the short term 3 years• Where are you now ?• Plus your own specific ones

Reminder: M-learning is broader than just courses

(it’s the journey)

E-learning

New technologies

Mobile learning

Location aware (GPS)Text messaging (SMS)

Social networkingVirtual worlds

Phone callsCollaboration tools

Media capture (image, sound, video)Media playbackMedia sharing

eBooksSurveys / polls

Geoff Stead of

Basic list of uses of mobile in Education

• Institutional service • Repacking supply of existing content Educational content• Mobile specific mini course • Augmenting the learner (digital toolbox ,pencil case)• Augmenting existing course materials e books augmented

book • Augmenting reality

Institutional service

• Marketing• Recruitment• Induction orientation • Library service• Catering • Health• Social • Timetabling• Disaster recovery • Alumni

Complicated APPS for smart phones campus info

Mobile access to institutional services

Molly Project (Mobile Oxford)

Tribal MIS systems (70% of UK Higher Ed)

Repacking supply of existing content Educational content

• Simulations• Real life footage• Podcasts vodcasts• E books• QR codes• SMs Delivery Platforms or straight jackets will the

future be like Lego

I tunes U early adoptersUCLOUCoventryOxford

E books and E book reader format wars

Reinventing the book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISxgVmRnFq8

Mobile content and micro courses

Mobile content and micro courses

layar.comwikitude.org

Augmented reality = enhanced learning

http://mashable.com/2010/09/22/universities-geo-location/ accessed 22/09/2010

And enhanced campus navigation Tilburg University http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/internet/ar.html

Exeter University UK

Works on more devices

Richer interactivity

Mobile course interactivity involves compromise

But there are some great toolkits & frameworks out there trying to make sense of this ...

The future answer for rich content across devices is the browser (I might be wrong )

The solutions for now • Apps (native)• Downloading/preloading content • Top rate instructional design• Simple but clever . Complicated and clever road to disaster • Robust delivery platforms for and in the future (you choose ?)

Mobile Learning is just about Learner Mobility.

Whatever the age the technology is no less

advanced its just different

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX0-nqRmtos

Thanks

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