Ten Questions about MobileLearning

http://tinyurl.com/sunymobileDavid Wicks

Seattle Pacific University

Augmentation – Not Delivery“So mLearning is not aboutputting e-learning courseson a phone; you should notthink about mLearning asdelivery of courses.mLearning is aboutaugmenting ourlearning—and ourperformance. This includesa role in formal learningand, occasionally can be thedelivery mechanism for afull learning solution, but thereal opportunity isaugmenting learning andperformance, not learningdelivery.”(Quinn, 2011, Kindle Location 590)

Quinn's Four C's of Mobile(2011)

1.What is mobile learning?

Which of the following is NOTconsidered mobile learning

technology?

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2. What are the advantages?

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3. What are the challenges?

4a. Where can (can’t) we make useof mobile learning?

4b. Where can we make use ofmobile learning?

accessingContent in theform of media

Capture ofinformation

ability toCompute aresponse

Communicatewith others

• Just-in-timelearning,

• Learn whilewaiting

• Replaychallengingconcepts

• Social reading

• Captureevidence ofcompetency

• QR codesleading to morecontent

• Movies ofstudentperformance

• Formative andsummativeassessment

• Note-taking• Concept

mapping

• Share courseinformation

• Collaborate onprojects

• Createportfolios

• Sharereflections

5. What does the pedagogy looklike?

6. What does the research say?

Learning activities supportedthrough mobile tools (Laurillard,2007)

7. How is m-learning beingintegrated into learningmanagement systems?

8. How is it being integratedwith social media?

9. What are the must-havemobile learning apps?

accessingContent in theform of media

Capture ofinformation

ability toCompute aresponse

Communicatewith others

• YouTube Edu• iTunes U• AudioBoo• Kindle• GhostReader

• GoogleGoggles

• DoubleTake• iMovie• Flickr

• Google Forms• Dragon• Other speech-

to-text apps• NoteTaker HD• Mindmapping

apps

• Twitter• Texting• Skype• WordPress• Wiki

10. How can instructors andstudents be productive with mobile

devices?accessingContent in theform of media

Capture ofinformation

ability toCompute aresponse

Communicatewith others

Instructorsprepare directinstruction contentin formats thatcan be consumedin chunks usingmobile devices

Instructors askstudents to sharevideo, audio, ortext tips on howthey are beingproductive withmobile apps

Instructors usespeech-to-textand Google formsfor assessment.

Instructors learnhow to text, tweet,and blog

Students takeadvantage of JITlearning andavailable time tolearn.

Students captureevidence ofcompetencies met

Students usemindmapping ornotetakingsoftware forclassroom notes.

Students learnhow to sharedocumentedlearning throughdigital portfolio

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David WicksDirector, Instructional Technology

Seattle Pacific Universitydwicks@spu.edu

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