mobile learning day - investigating the student tuition fees controversy
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Faculty Mobile Learning Day 22/02: Investigating the Student Tuition Fees Controversy
In December 2010 the UK government decided to raise the cap on university tuition fees to £9000. It also included part-time students, like those at the OU, in the same fees and loans regime as full-time students, for the first time. This decision triggered intensive public and political debate, and sparked massive student protests. A year on, what can we say about this move? How will it affect the UK higher education sector? How will it affect the future of young people in Britain? How will it affect the UK economy and society? Your task is to investigate these questions, by interviewing people around the OU campus. First, you will use your mobile devices to do any additional research you need on the web. Secondly, working in small groups, you will then use your mobile devices to record short interviews. Before setting off for your interviews, you should agree on three questions which you will ask your interviewees. Remember to keep the interviews short - up to 3 minutes each! After c.30 minutes of interviewing you will reconvene, review these interviews, and produce a video report from these interviews, which you will post to the web using your mobile devices. In order to conduct the interviews and produce the final report, you will use a site and mobile application called Tumblr. See instructions to the right:
Our Tumblr blog is at:http://modisday.tumblr.com/
Install the Tumblr app from the app store / android market. Log in as “[email protected]” password: modisday
click the paper and pencil icon to start a new post, select “video”
record or choose a previously recorded video to post
What Next? Follow-up InformationThe OU mobile connections site is a focal point for all OU mobile learning activity:http://www8.open.ac.uk/about/teaching-and-learning/mobile/ Yishay Mor, [email protected]
Mobile phone interviewingWe used Tumblr for this activity, but this is one option out of many, such as Qik and Google+. MobileActive’s mobile media toolkit has some easy to use guides on mobile media production.https://www.tumblr.com/http://qik.com/http://www.google.com/mobile/+/http://mobilemediatoolkit.org/
SMS pollsPolleverywhere and smspolls offer basic polling services. For more elaborate interactions, check out FrontlineSMS and RapidSMS.http://www.polleverywhere.com/http://www.smspoll.net/http://www.rapidsms.org/http://www.frontlinesms.com/
Mobile Learning DesignML4D is an example of an initiative which facilitated a design-level discussion among practitioners in the field of mobile learning for development. It used the Participatory Pattern Workshop framework.http://www.ml4d.org/http://projects.lkl.ac.uk/ppw