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MobiMOOC 2012: Mind the Gap
This morning I completed the second of two online presentations as part of MobiMOOC 2012 (an online, free to access course on mobile learning).
Initially, when I was asked to do a session on "mLearning pedagogy and learning theory" I thought they had the wrong guy. I have been deeply involved in mobile learning (both envisioning it, and making it) for over 11 years, but very little of that time has been spent in pure theory.
Almost all my time has been spent trying to understand how to REALLY make mobile learning work, in a meaningful and practical way. Not just the theory, but the real down-n-dirty practice. Together with my team we have been building apps / authoring tools / SMS engines / platforms / mobilized content and then using these with hard-to-access learners across the globe, trying to figure out what really does work, and add benefit.
After confessing this to the organisers, it turned out that this was exactly why they wanted our input, so we did a session titled Mind the Gap (or, where mlearning theory meets practice)
This is the ppt we did. There is also a youtube recording of the entire session!
Our main approach was to:
What do you think of the issues, and ideas?
Initially, when I was asked to do a session on "mLearning pedagogy and learning theory" I thought they had the wrong guy. I have been deeply involved in mobile learning (both envisioning it, and making it) for over 11 years, but very little of that time has been spent in pure theory.
Almost all my time has been spent trying to understand how to REALLY make mobile learning work, in a meaningful and practical way. Not just the theory, but the real down-n-dirty practice. Together with my team we have been building apps / authoring tools / SMS engines / platforms / mobilized content and then using these with hard-to-access learners across the globe, trying to figure out what really does work, and add benefit.
After confessing this to the organisers, it turned out that this was exactly why they wanted our input, so we did a session titled Mind the Gap (or, where mlearning theory meets practice)
This is the ppt we did. There is also a youtube recording of the entire session!
Our main approach was to:
- explore briefly some of the academic theory, and frameworks often mentioned in mobile learning
- discuss the challenges in really making use of them, practically
- work together to propose some suggestions / guidelines
- look at a few real life examples. Projects my team have been involved in.
What do you think of the issues, and ideas?
- Wave Riding Theory - A Fresh Look At Learning Technology Adoption
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I was honoured to do a Key Note at mLearnCon 2012 in Silicon Valley, sharing a combined session with Clarke Quinn (@Quinnovator) and /David Metcalf (@dmetcalf) It was a fun and dynamic session, which seemed to catch the right mix of theory, practise and...
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I am part of the team creating several different mobile learning tools. We make: mobile contenttools to help teachers make their own mobile contentplatforms to help people use SMS and MMS as educational resourcesas well as spending much of our time exploring...