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Developing m-Portal - pedagogical issues
The European Schoolnetworks Conference
New Technologies and Pedagogies, the Keys to Collaboration
Saturday, 15 February 09.30 – 11.00
Workshop Strand 3 The Open School: New Pedagogies in New Spaces
Alice Mitchell
M-Portal project leader
Ultralab
www.ultralab.net
October 2002
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October 2002
The m-Learning project
M-Learning - a pan-European project
Harnessing mobile technologies to promote learning
M-Portal development
SMS and MMS, push technologies, mobile games
Need for a shared pedagogy for m-learning
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October 2002
The m-Learning project
Project No: IST-2001-37187
Project Full Name: Mobile Communications Technologies for Young Adult Learning and Skills Development
Duration: 36 months Start date: October 1st 2001
Countries involved: Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom
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m--Learning consortium
Ultralab, Chelmsford, UK
The Learning and Skills DevelopmentAgency (LSDA), London, UK
Centre of Research in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Salerno, Italy
Cambridge Training & Development, Cambridge, UK
Lecando AB, Bromma, Sweden
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Why m-Learning?
“… one in five adults has less literacy than is expected of an 11-year-old” Skills for life
“In 1996 … a quarter of nineteen-year-olds were functionally illiterate” Basic Skills Agency
“Inertia and fatalism …are our chief enemies. We must be bold and imaginative to overcome them” Skills for Life
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How to reach them?
Using mobile technologies to: engage disaffected learners improve their Basic Skills re-connect them with learning
Using our combined strengths as: 2 university based research centres (UK & Italy) 2 e-learning companies (Sweden & UK) 1 educational research & development charity (UK)
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The challenges
A ‘high-risk’ project: 4 difficult and diverse areas:
new, emerging and rapidly developing technologies
developing learning content for devices with limited input/output functionality
target audiences who are disaffected and difficult to reach
Need for new pedagogic approaches
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Browser (big) Browser (small) IPAQVoice XML SMS
Learning Management SystemCourses, projects chat, forums
LIA
Content
m-Portal optional login - you can customise your environment
What? - System overview
Underpinning research
Underpinning research
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M-Portal research
Technology Watch: mobile technologies and their potential for promoting autonomous learning
Field research: needs, preferences, attitudes and habits of young adult phone users
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m-Portal layer
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Learner management tools
LMS - a learning environment for participants and tutor/mentors
Facilitates administration
Complements m-Portal with Forum discussions and chat functionality
Uses CRMPA Learning Intelligent Agent to make personalised learning paths to CTAD’s material
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m-Portal - pedagogical issues
Computers are increasingly powerful and complex,
but with an interface that presents an illusion of simplicity.
How can we make the interface easy to use?
How can we make it powerful and empowering?
How do we engage and support the disaffected learner?
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Features of progressivist environments
Promoting creativity, independence and interdependence - and delight in learning
Teacher as a facilitator/mentor rather than a knowledge provider
Students learn what they want and need to know
Wanting to learn and knowing how to learn are more important than acquiring factual knowledge
Their own evaluation - a meaningful judgement of their work
Learning takes place when students are feeling at ease
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M-Portal environment
M-Portal is designed as a progressivist environment, to promote:
Innate curiosity
Choice of activity
Emphasis on group and individual discovery
Learner self-direction and self-expression
Open communication
Mutual respect between participants
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Interactivity and collaborative learning
However the success of m-Portal will lie in the extent to which it is:
easy to use
engaging
able to foster a culture of learning
promotes interactivity and enquiry-based, social learning
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m-Portal Overview
Café
Portal Constructor
My Microportal
Forum
Other Microportals
MLWorld
Buddies
Study/Library
ContactsMentors
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m-Portal Screens
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m-Portal Screens
•Currently small browser based
•Uses database of known devices for layout detection
•English and Italian
•Direct access to LMS and Learning Materials
•‘My microportal’ functionality allows users to select, annotate and create
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m-Portal Screens
This is some info about me blah blah blah etc etc etc etc.
Contenutiaggiundi Found this helped with interest...Cool Italian English DictionaryMy short story
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Potential of mobile technologies to support learning
Importance of IPv6 and Broadband:
Ipv6 swings the axis of control of the infrastructure towards common good and public service organisations - a significant contributor to the European Union push for open source and non proprietary software environments.
Symmetry is a key component of a broadband learning environment - learners put in and contribute rather than simply download and interact.
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Potential growth areas
Wireless email and groupware - strong potential for m-learning
Technical benefits of asynchronous environments - reduced queries and ‘user idle time’ - controlled communication costs - a good choice for m-learning applications - people prefer it
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New generation mobile devices
Convergence of phones and PDA’s:
more bandwidth and speed to transfer data
handsets turning into ‘world phones’ or ‘microbrowsers’
e-mail, sound files, other data
daylight viewable, tactile screens with high resolution
more affordable AND significantly more processing power …
your phone is fast becoming your computer!
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SMS, MMS, mobile games
SMS - more than just a passing fad - a communication medium integral to young people’s lives
Clear market push towards MMS - but premium rate activities
Mobile games - the next ‘killer application’?
We should remain ambitious for the future
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Need for a shared pedagogy
We need an overarching, progressivist m-learning pedagogy that will:
accommodate different learner perspectives in developing learning strategies, models and applications
support virtual networked and collaborative learning
support ambient learning
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Discussion
What specific added value/s can you identify for using m-Portal with your students?
How could it provide you with the information you need about what students have learned?
What are key pedagogical issues for m-learning?