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Wire-less and other new technologies: relevance and applications in FE
Bob BanksFD Learning
Managing ICT in the new FE: Meeting increased expectations
The Buzz ...
Using new devices to support learning. Mobile devices Interactive digital TV “Information appliances”
[Learning] devices [will] be as easy to use as such "information appliances" as watches, telephones, digital cameras, and compact-disc and tape players. (???) (after) Donald Norman “The Information Appliance (1998)
“Any - time, any-place learning”
Technology for learning
e-learning ...m-learning ...t-learning
But is it learning ??
It’s about ...
Learning needs: Social, psychological, organisational factors.
Technology often used in different ways to those its designers envisaged ….
CF - email, the web, mobile phones, text messaging …..
Goals for a learning provider
Enhancing existing provision More attractive, exciting … Better learning More flexible / better tuned to learners’ needs Better retention ……….
Enabling new provision New audience New kind of provision
How can m-learning (and iDTV) help?
PDA
LaptopDesktopcomputer
Mobile Phone (Text messages)
MobilePhone (WAP)
Network
What the technology can offer:1 - Connected learning
Participants:StudentsTutorsMentorsCommunity membersCommunity organisationsEmployers Work placementsManagers Etc …...
InformationStore(s)(VLE etc.)
Classroom
Etc….
Audio devices(PhoneEtc.)
1 - Multi-modal learning
Access to the learning in a number of modes, depending on the learner’s circumstances and preferences.
Face to face explanation and discussion Printed materials Online materials and discussion Mobile devices - materials and discussion
Enhancing existing kinds of learning - or totally new kinds?
1 - A supporting framework
Content(e.g. learningmaterials)
Services
Presentation & accessibility layer
Audio (MP3, phone …)
Mobile phone
PDAPCGamesConsoles
Accessible output for specific needs ?
What the technology can offer: 2 - A congenial
“learning space”
Learning can be conducted in a “space” which is in tune with learners’ preferences and culture empowers them supports them meets their specific life and learning needs.
And the technology must “do its job”, in the context.
What the technology can offer: 3 - Support in situations which
benefit from mobility
Learning and performance support for immediate work problems
Learning support in collaborative / mobile contexts Learning “on the move”
What the technology can offer:
4 - And it’s managed …. Coherent underlying support Progression “System” remembers and supports preferences Can feed in to accreditation Scalable …...
Reminder: What activities make up learning?
Discussion:Community
Information:Materials
Tracking and Management
Reflecting andPlanning.What to learn next?
Looking at support for …. Learners
The learner taking a “course”? Or “just in time” learning? Performance support? Inter-weaving learning with work / life. Redefining learning? The learner deciding what to learn next (Lifelong learning) … and being enticed into learning. ……. ?
Lecturers / Teachers: Supporting learners Constructing new learning experiences (“Learning Objects”?) Supporting each other …..?
“Demos” - Some examples Materials - Young adults - skills for life
Management - Mobile markbook
Locating materials & collaboratively building new learning experiences - Mobile repository access
Discussion - Mobile messaging & dialogue
Drawing learners in / defining learning needs - - IDTV (interactive digital TV)
Example of materials
E.g. …… Urban survival“… to help young people deal with the urban jungle and improve literacy and numeracy skills. When young people become more independent there are lots of rules and regulations to come to terms with and budgets to be balanced.
CTAD have put together a short series of resources designed to be delivered on mobile phones or via handheld browsers.”
CTAD (Cambridge Training and development)
http://www.ctad.co.uk/m-learning
The m-learning project
http://www.m-learning.org/
Why Basic Skills ?
“… one in five adults has less literacy than is expected of an 11-year-old” Skills for life
“In 1996 … a quarter of nineteen-year-olds were functionally illiterate” Basic Skills Agency
“Inertia and fatalism …are our chief enemies. We must be bold and imaginative to overcome them”
Skills for Life
Also - interactive phone / SMS
Materials - other scenarios
Performance / Field support “Bite-sized” chunks / learning objects Mobile gaming
“ Mobile games may do for the wireless Internet what e-mail did for the wired one. ….A recent study by Datacomm Research and Phoenician Ventures concluded that mobile games are the
wireless Internet’s killer app, and that 3G handsets with color displays are its killer devices. ”
Audio
Mobile markbook - scenarios
Moving around classroom Moving between classroom, staffroom, home Sharing with colleagues Messages to students / employers /
colleagues, etc. Etc ……..
Demo...
Mobile repository access
Scenarios Lecturers / teachers exchanging ideas. An (online) community around materials sharing. “Just in time” learning / learning experience
construction.
Based on (more or less) “learning object” orientation
Demo...
Interactive TV (1): Keep IT in the Family
An interactive quiz to motivate people to improve their IT skills, and to consider training options
For Telewest Digital Interactive Television (DiTV) viewers
In collaboration with Sheffield College - http://www.sheffcol.ac.uk/ Futurate - http://www.futurate.com/
go
iDTV Example
Interactive TV (2) – Guardians project
Structured learning experiences “on top of” TV Enrolment Messaging Calendar, notepad, news
Supported, managed learning through digital TV Search and notification
http://www.fdlearning.com/guardians/
iDTV - Guardians
Or - answer via SMS (or PDA)
Different presentation layers(IMS QTI)
Tutor view &Audit trail oflearner activity.
iDTV - Guardians
State of the technology
Technology for m-learning is here - but Not yet fully standardised Multiplicity of devices - and fast-changing - hence adaptability
of environment is important Subject to limitations of devices!
Technology for multi-modal presentation is here - but Not yet straightforward to deploy Not yet clear which to choose
We have examples of practice built by technologists - but Not yet grown out of learners’ needs(?)
Some challenges
Providing flexible learning & performance support rather than 30-hour courses (The new definitions of learning?)
Cultural & Business decisions around new kinds of offer / new ways of working
Managing delivery over multiple channels
Managing “learning objects”
Deciding which technology option to go with
Managing ICT in the new FE: Meeting increased expectations
Wire-less and other new technologies: relevance and applications in FE
[email protected] www.fdlearning.com
Demos:http://www.ctad.co.uk/m-learning Example PDA & phone content.http://www.sheffcol.ac.uk/ http://kiitf.sheffcol.ac.uk/ IDTV (1)http://www.futurate.com/http://www.fdlearning.com/guardians IDTV (2)
Background:http://www.m-learning.org/ European m-learning projecthttp://www.pjb.co.uk/m-learning/ m-learning forum / portalhttp://learning.ericsson.net/leonardo/ Another European m-learning projecthttp://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/eclipse/resources/mlearning.htm
m-learning “news” portal.http://www.pjb.co.uk/t-learning/ IDTV learning forum / portal
