Mobile or not? How students watch Video Lectures. Mobile learning in education is a hot topic.
What really is mobile learning? In the context of our college’s online program, ‘mobile learning’ means offering our prerecorded lecture videos to students in a mobile friendly format. Though I hesitate to call this mobile learning, I see this format as a way to allow our students to learn ‘anytime and anywhere’. This week we are analyzing student feedback through the anonymous course surveys we collect at the end of each undergraduate [for credit] course within our online program. One area of focus for this sessions feedback is the prerecorded lecture videos. Our plan for gathering this data was to determine how students watch the prerecorded video lectures we have for each of our general education classes, and how effective the videos are in delivering the course content (from the student’s perspective).
I watched the lectures on a computer/laptop without downloading the lecture files. Like this: Like Loading... Android 4 Schools. Educational iOS Apps. Using Cell Phones to Support Student Engagement & Achievement in Speaking and Listening. Android Police - Google+ - #AndroidDev iosched$ git push — The I/O 2012 Android app… Not Just Mobile Learning, Mobile Everything. iPad Evaluation Mid-Year. Android@Home Lets You Control Your Lights & Appliances Wirelessly. Google has just unveiled the Android@Home framework, a set of protocols for controlling light switches, alarm clocks and other home appliances through any Android device.
The search giant's ambitious plan intends to turn the home into one connected device. During a demo Tuesday at Google I/O in San Francisco, the company showed off the capability to control lights via an Android tablet. Android@Home essentially makes it possible to control wireless or connected devices. Google also showed off a new type of Android device: a home theater system called "Project Tungsten. " Google rigged several speakers to the Android OS and, using an Android tablet, controls the speaker system. Don't expect to be controlling your home light switches with Android@Home next week, though.
Google unveiled the framework now so that developers can get a head start on building apps on top of the new protocols. 5 Android Apps to Turn Your Phone Into a Mobile Document Scanner - Summify. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
Even if you've done everything you can to banish paper from your office, those little white sheets can still creep up on you. You'll want to digitize those crinkly analog fugitives post haste, but you may not be keen on splurging for a scanner — especially when you're only taming the occasional receipt or intake form. The solution — wait for it — could be in the palm of your hand. Your Android smartphone has all the photographic and processing power you'll need to snap up those docs and get them into the cloud where they belong.
Mobile Learning infokit / Home. Learning Resources on Mobile Learning – this Week’s Topic on the Gateway to 21st Century Skills. Read more by eSchool News Tucson, AZ – October 17, 2011 The rapid advances in mobile technology have created new vistas for learning on the fly – literally. Last week, for example, I saw a young girl practicing fast math facts on her mother’s phone while her older sister took a ballet class. One of my son’s friends takes violin lessons from a teacher in China via Skype on his iPad, while another is learning Italian on his iPod touch. The educational possibilities for mobile learning – anytime and anywhere – are thrilling to contemplate, both inside and outside of the classroom. A great feature of the Gateway is that all the resources it contains can be correlated to your specific State Standards. This week’s Joann’s Picks column on the Gateway’s home page, www.TheGateway.org will feature three resources from the Gateway’s collection addressing mobile learning.
Discussions will continue on last week’s theme of Espionage on both pages. About The Gateway to 21st Century Skills. How to get started with mobile learning. (We have created an 8-part comprehensive report containing a series of two-to-three page “briefs.”
This is part 8: Diving into mLearning: How to get started. If you would like to see the collection in its entirety, click here.) Think small and not huge when you do your first project. At mLearn, we heard stories from companies such as PwC, Abbott Pharmaceuticals, the Federal Bank of Chicago, and several others. Here are tips we gleaned from others’ first efforts: 1. What does small mean??? Mobile and Informal Learning: Trends for 2012. Visions of Mobile Learning. Devices | Feature Visions of Mobile Learning It's been just a couple of years since the first mobile device hit the market.
Yet, it is already a foregone conclusion that it will become an indispensable tool for learning in the future. That's why T.H.E. Journal asked a number of educators to let their imaginations go wild and conjure up visions of the future of the mobile device in the classroom Many years down the road, I envision a device that isn't mobile per se, but located in every classroom.
The ideal mobile learning device resembles a credit card after being folded four times. Imagine a personal learning environment in the palm of your hand. Future mobile devices will be interactive with a three-dimensional touchscreen that projects the screen into the air in front of the user for manipulation. The device will fit in a pocket and have multiple inputs to cover any need.
It will be an off-the-shelf smartphone. Getting Started Today With mLearning: Video Podcasting by Dave Mozealous. “Video Podcasting is something that you can start doing today to get involved in mobile development using your existing eLearning videos.
No need to wait for any technologies that are years off, or spend more money investing in expensive delivery platforms. How to get started with mobile learning. The top 10 reasons your mobile learning strategy will fail. While the focus of this post is not specifically Apple or the iPad, it’s almost impossible to talk about successful mobile strategies without recognizing that the iPad has created a transitional moment for the Learning & Development world.
The reasons why have been the subject of countless blog posts, but I think DreamWorks founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, in this video from TechCrunch, says it best: “[The iPad] it’s the first device that actually is a reflection of me – or us. Forming a Training Mobility Strategy by Adam Smith. “Overall our strategy is to simplify, to do something, and to link to the business.
Our mobile learning strategy is in process and we expect it will be under constant adjustment. However, I’m confident that next year we’ll have solid examples and standards we can use to work with other departments as demand builds.” The current push towards using mobile devices for learning can feel like the first days of home computing. When home computers were first introduced, sales people would wax poetic about a household where children did their homework without complaint, mother kept her recipes in perfect order, and father kept immaculate spreadsheets of the family budget. The reality included children playing poor facsimiles of arcade hits while mom and dad fought about how they spent ten per cent of the family income on a toy. Mobile-learning-infokit.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Book Review: The Mobile Academy, by Clark N. Quinn by Bill Brandon.
“Business has already discovered that it is essential to have a clear strategy for accommodating mobile.
Universities, where the implementation of these technologies is more complex and challenging, have an even greater need for a plan and a system to keep up with rapid changes in the mobile field. In my opinion, Clark Quinn has provided an excellent foundation for creating such a strategic plan.” Clark Quinn has just published another book on mLearning, his second this year. The latest work, The Mobile Academy: mLearning for Higher Education, is intended as a guide to strategy and implementation of mobile learning for administrators, instructional support staff, and faculty.
As such, it is direct, to the point, and extremely practical. Research and thinking In the Foreword, John C. Mobile Learning infokit / Home. Sky Map for Android. What is Sky Map? WordPress for Android.