digilab hhl 2008 "mobile digiquest"

Mobile Digiquest: Developing rich media reflective practitioners

http://digilab.open.ac.uk

Rhodri Thomas Rhodri.Thomas@open.ac.uk @rhodct

Keren Mills K.Mills@open.ac.uk @mirya

Why are rich media reflective activities beneficial to distance learners?

Connecting learners

Improving access

Learning journals

‘Citizen journalism’

Practice-based

Location-aware

Embedding contexts

How do our staff feel about thesemobile activities?

Know ledge about Mobile Learning

Nothing34%

Heard of it23%

Know a little25%

Could explain it17%

Expert1%

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OU staff experience of rich media on mobile devices

Taking a photographwith a mobile phone

Loading photos intoFlickr or a similarphoto sharing site

Transferring files to orfrom a PDA orSmartphone

Total responses: 398

Where is the Digilab?

What kinds of session have been runand for which groups?

EducationalProfessionalDevelopment

Which themes have been successful (and when)?Moblogging

Learning Objects

Social bookmarking

Geocaching (for eLC)

Social networking

Podcasting

Device reviews (for MTech)

Mobile internet browsingtied with community/development aims and University initiatives

Developing individual/group activities

Enabling technologies for plenaries

Involving regional or distance participation

Influencing University discussions

Facilitating the ‘return path’

find out more at http://digilab.open.ac.uk

digilab@open.ac.uk

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