Gila Kurtz (Ph.D)

Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation Department

School of EducationSyracuse University

September 2014

Mobile Devices in Higher Education :The answer for future learning?

Outline:

Introduction What is mobile learning? Examples from the field (mainly f2f) Findings from studies What’s next??

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Do you think that mobile devices in higher education are the answer for future learning?

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What is mobile learning?

Any learning which takes place via wireless mobile devices such as smart phones, PDAs, and tablet PCs where these devices are able to move with the learners to allow learning anytime, anywhere (Naismith et al., 2006; Wang, Wu, & Wang, 2009).

BYOD -Bring Your Own Device

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To be published

 

December issue of AJDE (vol. 28 no. 4)

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Courses’ evaluation

More examples

• Taking a quiz• Sticky & photo sharing• Diffusion of innovation theory• Google Books Ngram Viewer•

Findings from studies

The Laptop, the Tablet, and the Smartphone Attend the Lecture

Hagit Meishar Tal and Gila Kurtz

Rosemary, L, Goodyear, P., Grabowski, B., Puntambeker, S., Underwood, J. & Winters, I. (Eds.), Handbook on Design in Educational Computing. (pp. 279-287) London: Routledge

The Laptop, the Tablet, and the Smartphone Attend the Lecture (1)

(a) mobile technologies available to students in class;(b) students’ use of these mobile technologies in class; (c) students’ perceptions of these uses, i.e., how they estimate the contribution or damage of the use of these devices during the lecture; (d) how intensively lecturers engage students via the mobile devices in the students’ possession

The Laptop, the Tablet, and the Smartphone Attend the Lecture (2)

The Laptop, the Tablet, and the Smartphone Attend the Lecture (3)

Table 3. Positive and negative effects of using mobile devices in class(Range of responses: 1 = none / little, up to 5 = very large extent)

The Laptop, the Tablet, and the Smartphone Attend the Lecture (5)

The Laptop, the Tablet, and the Smartphone Attend the Lecture (5)

• use of mobile devices in class is all the rage among students, serving them identically for learning-supportive and distractive purposes

• “continuous partial attention,” i.e., concurrent superficial attention to several incoming sources of information (Rose, 2010).

• These findings hand the higher-education system a new challenge—to develop teaching strategies that will amplify learning-supportive uses and limit distractive ones.

Engaging Students in Class through Mobile Technologies – Implications for the Learning

Process and Student Satisfaction

Engaging Students in Class through Mobile Technologies (1)

• how students are using their mobile devices in class and whether lecturers can influence this usage to the benefit of learning

• an intervening research (2 groups, pre-post questionnaires)

• Levels of constructive usage in the intervention group were significantly higher while less content related distractive usage (NOT in distractive communications.

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