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Learning on the Move ! Coming to a small screen near you.
Dr Edwin P CurranSchool of Computing and Mathematics
University of Ulster
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Where do our students learn?
• Lectures?
• Tutorials?
• Practicals?
• Revision classes?
• Cramming in last week before exam?
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Is mobile learning the answer?
• “It's elearning through mobile computational devices: Palms, WindowsCE machines, even your digital cell phone.” (Quinn 2000)
• “how the mobility of learners augmented by personal and public technology can contribute to the process of gaining new knowledge, skills and experience. “( Sharples et al 2007)
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An age of personal and technical mobility
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/mobile/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7178670.stm#2
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Mobile internet devices
• “A mobile internet device is something that you carry around in your pocket, and can deliver the full internet, with no compromises,”
• “Eventually we will blanket the globe in wireless broadband connectivity”
( Paul Otellini , Intel, 2008)
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Mobile learning activities
• “Ten years of research into mobile learning has revealed no single ‘killer application’ for mobile technology in learning, but instead has offered a set of promising scenarios such as … …handheld response systems in classrooms”
( Sharples et al 2007)
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Mobile learning activities
• Should be driven by specific learning objectives• create quick and simple interactions;• prepare flexible materials that can be accessed across contexts;• consider special devices that might add to the learner
experience (for features of mobile example, the use of audio);• use mobile technology not only to ‘deliver’ learning but to
facilitate it,• make use of the facilities in current mobile devices for voice
communication, note-taking, …
(Naismith and Corlett, 2006)
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Challenge
• Let’s explore how we can harness existing technology to make our classes more fun, more engaging and enrich the learning experience for more of our students.
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What is teaching?
The purposeful creation of situations from which motivated learners should not be able to escape without learning or developing. ( Cowan 1998)
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Do I have to use all these?Sony PSP
Apple iPod
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Do I have to use all these?
VLE
small screen
devices
Tools to create questions
and learning activities
Audience participation
system
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Audience participation systems
• InterWrite PRS– www.interwitelearning.com– IR and RF– Latest version 4.41– Talk to WebCT/Blackboard
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Audience participation systems
• TurningPoint– http://www.turningtechnologies.co.uk– IR and RF– Latest version 4.0– Talk to WebCT/Blackboard– sits as a toolbar in PowerPoint – allows competition
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Creating learning activities
• StudyMate– Authoring tool– Create Flash-based activities– www.respondus.com/products/demos-
sm.sthml
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Better stop now!
• Will this guarantee– better engagement of students?– higher level of satisfaction?– enhanced level of continuing enrolment?
• Implementation in semester 2