exploring mobile: considerations and opportunities

Plymouth e-Learning Conference 2011

Exploring Mobile:Considerationsand OpportunitiesDoug Belshaw, JISC infoNetZak Mensah, JISC Digital Media

Overview of session

1. What is 'mobile learning'?

2. Uses of mobile learning

3. Institutional strategy

4. Future trends

Overview of session

#pelc11mob

What is mobile learning?

"This session aims to equip educators and leaders to engage students through the

use of mobile learning"

What is mobile learning?

CC BY milos milosevic

http://bit.ly/govephonehome

Definitions of mobile learning?

http://onthehorizon.pbworks.com

Definitions of mobile learning?

“A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring

anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability. Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the changes in which they are

caught and whose significance or connections they do not

perceive.”

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Definitions of mobile learning?

“A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring

anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability. Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the changes in which they are caught and whose significance or connections they do

not perceive.”

John Dewey (1916)

Definitions of mobile learning?

"Early definitions... which focused predominantly on the attributes of mobile

technology, have given way to more sophisticated conceptualisations suggesting that mobility is the central

issue (Winters, 2006). This denotes not just physical mobility but... having access to people and digital

learning resources, regardless of place and time."

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme (2010)

Definitions of mobile learning?

Winters (2006) - dominant perspectives:

1. Technocentric2. Relationship to e-learning3. Augmenting formal education4. Learner-centred

Definitions of mobile learning?

"The exploitation of ubiquitous handheld technologies, together with

wireless and mobile phone networks, to facilitate, support, enhance and extend the

reach of teaching and learning."

http://www.molenet.org.uk

Definitions of mobile learning?

So...

Mobile learning is about:

adaptability (context)access (resources)extension (reach)

*not* just about these!

What do you use mobile devices for?

CC BY-NC-SA Alian Bachellier

My uses

CommunicationEmail, Phone, SMS, Twitter

CreatingCreating digital images,Recording voice memos

LearningRSS feeds, Audio,Music, Podcasts

(huffduffer), Web browsing

Context

Context is king

mobile web design, Moll 2007

Context is king

OpportunitiesUser devicesAnytime, anywhere

Constraints SizeAvailabilityRange of devices

Location ClassroomSocialOut of class

Additional reference www.slideshare.net/sharplem/disruptive-mobile-learning-bett-2008

3 things

Audio, video and e-books

Huffduffer to share audio with multiple devices

Record once, read many

E-books

SearchAccess anywhereAccess anytimeAccess everyone

PDF / ePubStanza for viewingApps e.g. kindle

www.calibre-ebook.com

Strategy

Library is king 625 hotspots 8000+ connected to wireless per week Devices, uses and attitudes

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www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/help/wireless-survey/survey-2010/results-2010/

What is your institution doing with mobile?CC BY Johan Larsson

How could institutions approach mobile?

"Students respond to requests to shut off their phones with a sense of panic,

a feeling that they will be cut off from their world of personal relationships. This feeling, taken to its extreme, has been dubbed "nomophobia," the fear of being forced

to shut off a phone, or the obsessive worry of losing a phone. There is even a support Web site for

nomophobics." (Woodill 2011, p.150)

How could institutions approach mobile?

How could institutions approach mobile?

Cochrane(2010)

How could institutions approach mobile?

Koole's FRAME model(2010)

How could institutions approach mobile?

"Relationships between tutors, learners and IT staff need to be further developed so that

productive debates can be had over issues such as security, curriculum planning and delivery, resource development, establishing authenticity of work and

fitness for purpose of IT infrastructure." (MoLeNET, 2010 p.8)

How could institutions approach mobile?

How could institutions approach mobile?

"The main barriers to developing these new modes of mobile learning are not

technical but social. We have little understanding of context and learning outside the classroom, and even less about how this can be supported

through new mobile technologies." (Sharples 2010, p.4)

What do you see as future trends?

CC BY Johan Larsson

What do you see as future trends?

"People expect to be able to work, learn, and

study whenever and wherever they want to."

http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2011/

Some future trends

http://navigator.nmc.org

Some future trends

Want more?

http://bit.ly/pelc11-mobile

“The information era in which we currently live is changing the culture of education”.Retta Guy, 2009