The Open University's Institute of Educational Technology

LocalLearn Scenarios:

Help us shape the next big thing

Mobile Learning Day, 22 Feb. 2012

The Open University's Institute of Educational Technology

What’s the story?

• LocalLearn is a new initiative driven by the Open Media Unit.

• It proposes to use mobile and social media to develop means of accessing locally relevant free educational material / services from the Open University

• IET are helping define and design the thing that LocalLearn will be.

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‘Go Further with the OU’

Aims

• Awareness - Enhancing OU brand through association with mobile services and reinforcing idea of OU - open and relevant to people anywhere, any time. Exploiting innovative semantic/linked data and ‘social layer’ activity to enhance service.

• Engagement - Means of engaging learners at point of need/interest based on location exploration and relevance.

• Conversion - Clear routes from free and open materials, locally relevant to formal study opportunities. Opportunity to indicate local study centres/study buddies.

• Asset Return - Using power of crowd to user tag and relate materials, using semantic web activity to enhance existing Open Media materials with geo-relevance.

• Opportunity to monetise service. • Opportunity to build relations (and expose OU content) with new partnersincluding

National Trust, British Library

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Your jobYou will be presented with two usage scenarios we have envisioned for LocalLearn. These

scenarios try to depict potential users and their possible patterns of use. Put yourself in these users’ shoes, and walk through the scenarios.

• Are you convinced that they describe a genuine need and address it adequately?• Are they tempting, exciting, inspiring? Do you imagine the technology inducing a change

of practice?• What are the possible points of failure?• How could the scenarios be extended / enhanced / improved?

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Scenario 1: Joe Kirpati's business trip to Perth

Joe Kirpati is driving to Perth for a business meeting

History

Nature

Literature

Architecture

As he drinks his morning coffee, he uses google maps app on his phone to plot the route, and uses the LocalLearn plugin to note his interests

On the way, the LocalLearn apps reads out content about places he passes by the interests he noted.

Save

When something sparks his interest, he taps the phone to save it for later.

LocalLearn.ac.uk Joe Kirpati

Millenium bridge, Newcastle

Hadrian’s wall

Melrose Abbey

Joe arrives early, so he uses his laptop to follow up on the points of interest he saved. The links take him to the relevant OpenLearn pages.

Scenario 2: The Kirpati's trip to the Lake District

Joe Beth Clarisse (15) Maisy (12)

Android phone

Laptop

iPhoneKobo

Android phone(cheap)

Simple phone

Meet the Kirpati family from Leeds

Beth planning the family holiday

Google.com

Windermere

Plan your trip with OpenUniversity's LocalLearn?

LocalLearn.ac.uk

Register | Download app

LocalLearn.ac.uk Beth Kirpati Download app

My Learning Trails | My local area | Plan a trip

LocalLearn.ac.uk Beth Kirpati Download app

Plan a trip : Lake District

* Beatrix Potter * William Wordsworth * ..... * .....

Share this trail with a friend

beatrix potter

Beth plans a trip:Marks a route on the map, notes interests, system recommends relevant content, chooses and arranges.Shares her trail with family members

email from: LocalLearn.ac.uk

Beth shared the learning trail "lake district" with you

Register | Download app

LocalLearn.ac.uk Joe Kirpati Download app

Plan a trip : Lake District

* Beatrix Potter * William Wordsworth * Wray Castle * .....

Share this trail with a friend

Wray Castle

Joe receives the invite from Beth, registersand notes his interests (scenery, gardens)edits the trail.

Android phone

DownloadLocalLearn

iPhone

DownloadLocalLearn

Kobo

DownloadLocalLearn

KoboDurring the drive to Windermere, the girls read through the trail, and discuss the information with the parents.

At Wrey Castle, Clarisse takes a photo with her phone and attaches it to the family trail

She also spots an interesting mushroom and uses the iSpot tab to upload it and link it to their trail

LocalLearn.ac.uk Joe Kirpati

Back in the B&B the family uses Joe's laptop to follow up on the days experiences, and check out the links the system suggests

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Thank You!

Yishay MorYishay.Mor@open.ac.ukhttp://iet.open.ac.uk/Yishay.Mor http://www.slideshare.net/yish/mobile-learning-day-locallearn-scenarios

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