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Future
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Potential with HTML5
- Location awareness
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Scenarios
- Getting from A to B
- Specific location information
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Augmented Reality
- Tied up with advertising
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Some say too specific
- Really about virtual experience
in physical environment
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Some say needs to be
tightly defined
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e.g. Layar & Google
Skymap are different
- Purpose, openness, etc
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'Ambient buildings'
- Anything that 'augments'
everyday experience
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Not going to be so big
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More location-based stuff
- Privacy issues
- Talk to Pervasive Media Studio (Bristol)
- Lot of opportunities, no real case studies yet
- Lots of potential
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Social Learning
- Next big thing according to James Clay
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iPad
- The future, according to James Clay
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Hyped out of all recognition
- iPod touches are better for education (David Sugden)
- Android tablets potentially useful
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People starting from the wrong place
- Issue = institutional vs student-owned devices
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Open/Closed debate
- Practitioners probably not
thinking about this at moment
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Also about apps vs
open web
- Publishers interested in apps
because easier to make money
- Apps aren't going away
because so profitable
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'Platform agnosticism'
- Cloud computing
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Open will prevail (Ian Singleton)
- But more complicated than that
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Be careful of bandwagons
- Need to focus on accessibility
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Room for both?
- Lowest common denominator = most important
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Mobile operators
- Changing how they sell mobile data
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Modules/courses
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Institute of Education
- MA in ICT in Education
- MsC in Learning Technologies
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User-generated content
- Explosion in FE/HE
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Hamstrung by assessment regimes in secondary
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Need to teach 'mobile phone proficiency'
- Mobiles currently 'playthings'
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Need to separate teaching and assessment
- Branding
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More project-based learning
- Semi-formal learning
- Unconferences & grass-roots events
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Devices with projectors built-in
- Key issue = responsibilities
- Distribution = key
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Cloud computing
- Goes hand-in-hand with mobile
- More you can outsource the better
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Mobile maturity
- Many projects repeating previous mistakes
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Current practice
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Fragmented landscape
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Could hinder educational use
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Suggestions
- Key bits of info on website
- Investigate exciting new hardware
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Two reasons
- Innovative stuff being
done by practitioners
taken for granted
(by them & institution)
- MoLeNet reticence to
engage with publications
- Public perception that homogenizing,
but not the case
- Divide between pragmatic and academic approach
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Relationship with
desktop machines
- Fuzzy line
- Mobile should do things better
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Students
- Need to build on critical mass
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Use surveys to find what
the state of play is
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Things going mainstream
& achieving 'critical mass'
important
- Positive externalities
- e.g. Fax machines more
useful the more people
have them
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Higher proportion with smartphones
than general population
- 99% will have smartphones
within 2-3 years
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Social networking integration?
- Facebook = c.40% of mobile
internet traffic
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'Context' is big keyword at the moment
- Learning 'in' and 'across' contexts
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VLEs
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Current idea to put VLEs
on mobile devices
- Will fail because not
appropriate
- Move towards digestible pieces of learning
- Blackboard going to add mobile element
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Location-based
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Lots happening at the moment
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Has gone mainstream along with
games-based learning
- University campuses perfect for this
- Make Freshers info
available year-round
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Move to Augmented Reality
- e.g. Museum of London iPhone app
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Senior Managers
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Want simple stuff
(e.g. SMS)
- Equality of access considerations
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Tension
- Economic best practice
- Pedagogic best practice
- Should take advantage of iTunesU
and OpenCourseWare
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Response systems
- Bluetooth
- Wifi
- Twitter
- SMS
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Digitization projects
- JISC
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MoLeNet works because teachers experiment
- Catalyst
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Bluetooth is a dying technology
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Being replaced by email and uploading directly
- Smartphones increasingly have functionality
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Reducing friction
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e.g. Eee PCs & Dropbox
- Case study from Chesterfield College
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Mobile games devices
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PSPs, Nintendo DS, etc.
- Pilot studies promising
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PSPs good
- Screen size
- Camera
- St Helen's College, Lancs. (case study)
- DS working well at Ashton-under-Lyme 6th form college
- Blackburn College using iPhones with teacher training
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Mobile devices banned or frowned upon in many places
- Ethical considerations
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iTunesU
- Dominated by filmed lectures
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Convergent devices
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e.g. iPhone
- Question becomes not 'how?' but 'what?'
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Student-owned devices
- Too expensive/too much friction for institution-provided
- Digital divide/social justice issues with using student-owned
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Passive use
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Media given to students
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Need to be creating (David Sugden)
- Evaluation & comparison skills
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Barriers
- Classroom management
- Philosophy of Heads of IT/Estates
- Accessibility
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Past 3 years
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Benefits of mobile access
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Topic
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Create anytime/anywhere version
of current offerings
- Trivial to do
- Currently just
screen-size changes
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No mechanism for collective purchasing
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Topic
- Need something similar to CHEST?
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MoLeNet
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Only small-scale projects up to 2006
- MoLeNet started in 2007
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Publications
- 'Go Mobile' (with JISC TechDis)
- Games technology for learning
- MoLeNet Academies set up after Year 1
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Resulted from initial European projects
- Follow-up work from LSC
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40,000 learners involved in projects
- 7-8,000 members of staff
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Change in activities
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No longer focused on shiny toys
- Greater understanding of e-learning
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JISC
- JISC eBook collections observatory project
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Rapid innovation grants
- Language students able to record colloquialisms
- Mobile campus at Bristol
- Historical maps
- Landscape study (2008)
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Lots of interesting things happening
because of extra features of mobile
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e.g. video, GPS
- PSPs especially good
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Media delivery easier
- No longer need laptop
for audio/video
- About tablet PCs as well as smartphones
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Clear standards r.e. technology for doctors/nurses, etc.
- Not in education
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Move away from PDAs
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Wifi on smartphones
- No need for data contract
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More mobile-friendly sites/apps
- e.g. iPadio
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Not just mobile phones, tablets, etc.
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Also digital cameras (e.g. Busby)
- Students use own memory card
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Other
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Education's relationship
to commercial mobile
technologies/opportunities
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Being behind 'hype curve' = a good thing
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Topic
- Means education can cherry-pick
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e.g. email used by businesses first
- click to add more
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Assumption that commercial always innovative is wrong
- Education needs flexibility
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eBooks tested with OU in 2001
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Have tested several things since then
(poor usability with Kindles)
- Knew what to do
with iPad immediately
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What is a 'mobile device'?
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17" MacBook Pro?
- To do with location of learner
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Four different types
- People who have huge investment in e-Learning
- Academics looking for ultimate device
- Changing pedagogies using technologies
- Standards
- m-learning is not an improverished
version of e-learning
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Research funding
- Social improvement
(e.g. LSN, NIACE)
--> tends to be
uncritical
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Research activity
(e.g. research councils)
--> tends to be
obscure
- Bubbling of research activity, but no
real sustainable approaches
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Mobile learning is moving fast
- Institutions aren't
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Mobile devices change pedagogies
- Unlike IWBs, etc.
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MFL using mobile
devices a lot
- Spoken element
- Situated element
- Ability to break stuff down
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London Mobile Learning Group
- Brings together people from range of backgrounds
- Database of projects
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Talk of 'net generation' = too simplistic
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About behaviours
& awareness
- Not necessarily generational
- Easier to get stuff onto Android devices
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International
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Lack of legacy infrastructure
- Exciting things happening as a result
- Pragmatic, as opposed to philosophical concerns
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Countries/areas to look at
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Australia
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Early innovators
- Distances involved
- Group of pioneers
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Scandanavia
- Finland (Nokia)
- Italy
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UK
- Seen as 'extending' learning
(e.g. home access)
- Leads the world in mobile applications
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USA
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Lagging behind
- Very corporate
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Africa
- Attempting to 'leapfrog' the west
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Japan
-
mobile culture
- High-end devices
due to small houses
- Asia ahead in hardware
but not software
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Organizations & projects
- International Association
for Mobile Learning
(iamlearn.org)
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European Mobilearn & mLearning projects were
about learning outside the classroom
- Basic education
- Workplace learning
- Norbert Pachler has database of projects
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MOTILL project
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Still in dissemination phase
- Italy, UK, Hungary & Ireland involved
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FE/HE issues
- FE seems to experiment
more than HE
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Sheffield College moving to support
all student mobile devices
- Bradford College doing
something similar
- Diana Laurillard attempted unified
strategy across all education sectors
whilst at DfES
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Publications
- Horizon Report 2010
- Mobile and blended
learning journal