dr. steve jones mtsu february, 2010 learning in the palm of your hand

Dr. Steve JonesMTSU

February, 2010

Learning in the Palm of Your Hand

Social media focus Anytime, anywhere

learning Incorporates texting Students can be

resources

How learners (of any age) use new technologies to participate in virtual communities where they share ideas, comment upon one another's projects, and plan, design, advance, implement, or simply discuss their goals and ideas together.

How could social media be used in classes?

Source: Ambient Insight, 2007

Distilled-down version – learning “nuggets”

“Just enough” i.e. brief content

Always on On demand (Just-in-

time) learning Facilitates learning

during naturally occurring times

Performance support

Students in field settings

Students on the go

Multi-way, active learning

Quick access to current drug database and nursing reference books

The ability to access procedure information

Bedside data entry, Data collection for research and teaching Patient health management Improved team communication

Source: Davenport, 2004

Can add texting capability to an mLearning module

Can transmit images and other data

In addition to social networking, how could mLearning be used in some classes?

ACU learning initiative Faculty experiences Research Math Podcasts Sample

Calculus II Airline Safety Checklist Dining Etiquette1 Projects link

Hot Lava donated software and server space

Proof-of-concept projects in Psy3020 (basic statistics), Psy4360 (Organizational Psychology) and PRST 5800/6800

Training available on-line in D2L Students create mLearning objects:http://hdwap.com

/mtsu/s.html?p=pass&n=yBrittani (pg1)Patricia (pg3)Stubblefield(pg3)2 tail tests

C-Shock: Culture game ProChef: Cooking podcasts Mayo Clinic InTouch: info for medical

professionals mynutrition.com: info for nutrition

professionals BonesInMotion: tracks fitness activities,

tracks routes with Google Maps

Software Ease of learning

Strength Cost

MobiSiteGalore Easy Texting, free hosting

Free

***Hot Lava Moderate Audio, skins for most popular phones, includes LMS, categories

$1000

ToolBook Moderate Also used for eLearning

$2795

Adobe Flash Difficult Testing site for different phones, but most phones lack flash player

$700

Iflipr – makes flash cards for iphone Mob – iForge – central site for

development of mobile content (all phones)

Qik: share live video from your mobile phone\

Twitter

Main advantage the main advantage of m-learning is that it increases

flexibility for students studying at a distance (Rekkedal, 2002)

mLearning has the potential to increase student retention (Fozdar & , Kuma2007)

University Leaders: ACU, CTU, Open University,

International Academy of Design and Technology

Experts: Judy Brown & David Metcalf (UCF) Organizations:

LearningTown (mobile learning group) http://www.learningtown.com/

The eLearning Guild http://www.elearningguild.com/ International Association of Mobile Learning

mLearning Conferences: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/ http://mlearnopedia.com/ http://www.elearningguild.com/mLearning conference

Blog: handheldlearning

Instructional Design for M-Learning – David Metcalf

Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators and Trainers – Kukulska & Traxler

Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training (eBook of studies from AU Press) – Editor: Mohamed Ally

Mobile Learning: on-line journal