Ten Tips for Designing Mobile Learning Content by Gerry Griffin “The responsibility for deciding how, when, and what someone learns, is shifting from learning providers to the learners themselves. This all-of-the-time availability of information is crucial to empower and motivate users as to when, where, and how they “consume” their learning. More motivated learners will hopefully give us higher levels of use, retention, and actual application of the learning — our learning goal.” It’s easy to get hung up about technology with mobile learning, but the real market driver is content. 1. Dividing content into two-minute segments began as a way to quickly and cheaply send content across mobile phone networks. By studying the psychological interaction between users, their mobile phones, and learning content, we have found that after about 90 seconds the user begins to lose concentration. 2. From our experience, the tone of voice for mobile content works best in the animated format. Figure 1. 3. 4. Content needs to encourage a number of “do differents.”
Social Media's Slow Slog Into the Ivory Towers of Academia - Josh Sternberg - Technology Underpinning a disdain for social media in higher education is the assumption that incoming students have an inherent aptitude for new technologies "If you took a soldier from a thousand years ago and put them on a battlefield, they'd be dead," Howard Rheingold, a professor teaching virtual community and social media at Stanford University, told me one morning via Skype. "If you took a doctor from a thousand years ago and put them in a modern surgical theater, they would have no idea what to do. Take a professor from a thousand years ago and put them in a modern classroom, they would know where to stand and what to do." Terms like "digital native" and "digital immigrant" have been used by marketers as a way of differentiating generations. This tale is not new. But as social interactions and technologies mature, there has been a swing in the pendulum. Teaching Social Media Theory "As faculty, we're always trying to engage our students better," Smith-Robbins says. Image: Creative Commons.
Mobile Learning Network (MoLeNET) The Mobile Learning Network (MoLeNET) is a unique collaborative approach to encouraging, supporting, expanding and promoting mobile learning. It is 'certainly the UK’s, and probably the world’s, largest and most diverse implementation of mobile learning to date. 115 colleges and 29 schools are, or have been, involved in MoLeNET. Approximately 10,000 learners were involved in 2007/08, around 20,000 learners in 2008/09 and the same again in 1009/10 together with over 4,000 staff.' The LSN and consortia led by Further Education colleges have together invested over £12 million in MoLeNET. Tribal has been involved with MoLeNET (the Mobile Learning Network) from the very beginning, both as a member of the steering group, and also as specialist trainers, or suppliers of mobile learning tools. LSN chose Tribal as partner in MoLeNET Jill Attewell from Learning and Skills Network (LSN) talks about why Tribal was chosen as a partner in the MoLeNET project (October 2008): Useful resources from MoLeNET:
The convergence of mobile and social learning I used to view mobile and social learning separately: social learning as ‘the semi formal layers of learning that surround the formal‘ and mobile learning as primarily technology, but my mindset has changed. Increasingly they form, for me, part of the same story: parts of a learning journey that stretches from the first contact with the learner right through to the footsteps that they take back into their everyday work. In ‘Mindset for Mobile Learning‘, i argued that mobile is about more than technology, that it’s about a mindset to how we approach and develop learning within organisations. I argued that, within the Darwinian marketplace of mobile Apps and devices, only the strong would survive, and that ‘strong‘, in this environment, means that which is aligned to native behaviours and desires. Materials that can compete: timely, time efficient, relevant, high quality, practical, immediate. ‘Mindset for Mobile Learning: a journey through theory and practice‘ is out now. Like this:
Professional blog | 21st Century Educator (Clay Shirky: How social media can make history) While education reformers like Michelle Rhee, Joel Klein, Bill Gates, and others will tell you that education is stuck in the status quo, right underneath their noses there is a quiet revolution occurring in education. The revolution is happening through social media. Every day thousands of hours are spent by educators, even during the summer, to improve their personal practice through discussion and sharing of resources. Every day more and more educators are joining the fray, choosing to sign up for social media sites (like Twitter) so that they can become part of the conversation on education reform. While the number of educators not yet sharing their ideas dwarfs the number sharing, those that are sharing are vocal about the benefits that they are getting and inviting their colleagues daily to join them. Educators are doing much in the non-digital world to connect as well.
Conférence : Nomadisme, mobilité – utiliser les Equipements Numériques pour apprendre J’ai été invité par l’Université de Brest (dite de Bretagne Occidentale) a faire une présentation sur ce qu’apportent l’usage des mobiles à l’université. La présentation aura lieu en centre ville à l’université Victor Segalen en salle B001 à 14 heures. (Mise à jour 13/02/2013 : vous pouvez retrouver l’enregistrement vidéo en ligne) En résumé : L’usage des mobiles rend possible de nouveaux modes d’apprentissages. La mobilité n’est ainsi pas que spatiale, mais ouvre aussi de nombreuses autres dimensions : temporelle, thématique, sociale, informative, technique. L’immense majorité des étudiants disposent aujourd’hui d’équipements personnels, PC portables, smartphones, voire tablettes qu’ils utilisent au quotidien. Au travers d’expérimentations réussies, nous explorerons quelques pistes d’usages au sein d’enseignements ou la participation devient le cœur de la pédagogie. Pour les curieux et ceux qui ne pourront se joindre à nous voici le diaporama. Like this: J'aime chargement…
Designing Mobile Performance Support Apps - @elearningcoach I'm sitting in a Mobile Learning session with one of my favourite people and authors - Connie Malamed, so forgive me for being extremely nice with my write up if that's what happens by the end of this talk. Connie's had a journey learning about apps on Mobile. She wanted to create a performance support app for instructional designers. It's called Instructional Design Guru. You should check it out. In today's talk she's going to tell us how you can walk through the design experience before you hand it over to a programmer. When designing for mobile it's important to think of the context. 1. Everyone has ideas about apps! There are several approaches for learning on mobile: We'll focus on performance support. There's a fair range of things you can do with mobile learning and mobile performance support: Connie talks about a doctor receiving surgery advice on SMS. In any case when you think of performance support, you've got to address the 5 moments of need: 1. Design Considerations
The World Is My School: Welcome to the Era of Personalized Learning By Maria H. Andersen Future learning will become both more social and more personal, says an educational technology expert. Humans have always been learning, but how we learn has changed over time. Certainly, personalized learning is the more effective method. Mass education is adequate, as long as students are highly motivated to learn and get ahead of their peers. The vision of a modern education built around personalized learning is not new, but it is definitely tantalizing. Learning Technologies Today Let’s start by taking stock of the personalized technologies for information that we already have. This is a problem; for deep learning to occur, we need to have repeated exposure to the information, along with some time in between for reflection. While it seems outrageous that we could find any more time in our busy lives, consider some of the disruptive changes we’ve seen quite recently that affect how we spend our free time. A Simple Idea: Learn This Learn This! Author Maria H.
Basics - Mobile Learning Handbook Student Polling/Audience Response Systems This topic deserves a special section because its use is becoming more common, and the use cases can be compelling for instructors of synchronous learning experiences. This mobile device application involves presenting a question to students through their learning medium (e.g., PowerPoint slides in a classroom). Students are asked by the instructor to send a text message to a designated address, with key codes corresponding to poll answer choices. Artificial Intelligence-based Voice Recognition Systems This technology trend started with the ability to control system functions by having the system recognize a preset list of system commands. This has changed dramatically with the advent of Siri on the iPhone. One implementation issue for this capability is the data load imposed by these systems. The use cases of a capability like Siri for mobile learning are significant. QR Codes Augmented Reality Location awareness Wearable computing devices
Mobile Learning - 7 Interesting Patterns Over the last two DevLearn conferences, the big buzz has been around Mobile Learning. While the thinking around this was far more mature this time around, a lot of the initial conversations still seemed to be around porting existing elearning courses onto mobile devices. Of course, the presence of pioneers such as Neil Lasher, Judy Brown, Ellen Wagner and others has helped clear the air around mobile learning a bit. I think at the recent conference, it was pretty clear that mobile learning isn't exactly 'elearning on the move'. Nor is mobile learning all about the iPhone, though the images on this post might make it seem like that. Learning Apps Having an iPod has opened me up to the world of mobile apps and I've been looking for learning applications like a hungry cat. Books and Documents My Kindle has revolutionised the way I read, and the availability of reading applications for Kindle books on PCs, Macs and mobile phones has made my learning extremely flexible. Game Based Learning
Growing networks of learning – part one – Learning to nurture ideas I’ve been thinking and studying networked learning since last December, when I stumbled into the world of educator personal learning networks, spread across the world. From my first blind stumbles across the edges of various twitter PLNs , to discussions and thinking with Kelly Tenkely about the Learning Genome , to witnessing connected learning courses with MOOCs like Stephen Downes and George Siemens’ CCK11 , to building my own PLN and contributing in collaborative efforts like the Reform Symposium . (Note: there are lots of links referencing deeper material in these posts. At the back of my mind are some primary concerns as we create learning environments from Being Prudence: what does the topology of a network of learning look like? This will be a series of ongoing posts, detailing my research and thinking in cross-disciplinary fields and how I’ve been synthesizing my ideas. If we were to map a network of learning among multiple participants, what would it look like?
M-learning : joindre une communauté de pratique S’appuyer sur l’expérience du passé devrait suffire à démontrer que la plupart des révolutions technologiques sont issues de recherches dont la seule motivation était le progrès de la connaissance. (Pierre Joliot) Le mobile-learning opère au sein des réseaux. Les appareils mobiles s’immisçant de plus en plus dans les pratiques éducatives, le moment semble propice à la création d’une communauté de pratique autour de l’utilisation des mobiles à des fins d’apprentissage. Maintenant que je retourne à l’enseignement, le défi demeure : où porter mon expérimentation pédagogique? Pourquoi le m-learning ? Je constate, deux ans plus tard, que le contexte a bien changé. Le m-learning n’est plus un phénomène marginal que l’école peut négliger. En ces temps d’évolution accélérée, de compétences en mutation et de communications, les mobiles ne sont plus des objets de luxe, mais de nécessité (HASTAC : 21st Century Literacies). Pourquoi attendre que d’autres indiquent la voie à suivre? À nous de jouer