TAAC XI eLearning is Dead Long Live mLearning! Steve Howard (MSc) Magnolia Multimedia ...

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eLearning is DeadLong Live mLearning!

Steve Howard (MSc)

Magnolia Multimediawww.magnoliamultimedia.com

[email protected]


Long Live mLearning!

Introduction – Who am I? What is mLearning? What Sort of Devices? What Sort of Content? Other Applications Tools Play Time!


Who Am I?

Steve Howard Authorware Developer since 1997 Independent Contractor since 2001 Owner of EuroTAAC since 2001 www.tomorrows-key.com www.eurotaac.com www.magnoliamultimedia.com Adobe Community Expert –

Authorware and Flash Mobile and Devices I am A MAD ACE


What is mLearning?

Delivery of content to Mobile Devices Short Lessons Small Files Web Based? Corporate University School Consumer


What Sort of Devices? Laptop PDA Phone SmartPhone Blackberry iPOD Portable Media Player UMPC (Ultra-mobile PC

“handtop”) FlyBook, Origami, OQO, DualCor

But we are talking about pocketable devices today!

Other?


What Sort of Content? Text HTML PDF Video Mp3/PodCast Flash Email “Just In Time!” SMS !!!

“Texting occurs within and between nearly every social situation—driving, going to the theatre, attending classes—despite the abhorrently kludgey interface” (Bryan Alexander 2004) Voice recognition, Text-to-speech Interactive? Engaging?

“Navigation on mobile devices is cumbersome and time-consuming because of their limited screen size ” Stephen J.H. Yang et al (2003)


Ex Lib: no “lack of didactic fantasy” Training developers often lack the imagination to produce

engaging interactive training. “In fact engaging content [on PDA] is entirely possible, but it

requires more advanced tools than HTML” Steve Howard (2006)

http://www.exlib.no/


Other Applications Self-made Training Context-aware Convert existing web- and desktop-based training Elementary School Collaborative Learning – wireless classroom

interaction Blogs Wikis Spacial Context - Museums, Conferences

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/invisible_ideas.html MobiLearn Project


Tools

C, C++, Java, eVB, eVC .NET – Compact Framework, Micro Framework

HTML, PDF, Word, PowerPoint Flash Flash Lite 1, 2, (2.1 Brew, WM5)

Video tools The devices themselves!


Playtime

Let’s take a few minutes to look at what devices you have, what I brought and look at a couple of applications.


Thank You

If you have any additional questions, please email me

[email protected]

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