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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...
- Mlearncon 2012
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...
- Mobimooc 2011 - A Summary
The first ever MobiMOOC (Massively online course on mobile learning) happened earlier this year. Were you there? If not, we have saved all the links, and best bits into our MobiMOOC 2011 summary. MOOCs are Massive Open Online Courses, normally free...
- Put Those Podcasts To Work On Your Pda!
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...
- Great Tools For Learning About It
Many of the learners on our m-learning projects started as very unconfident users of PCs. One of the surprise findings was that involvement in mobile learning was a very solid launch pad into mainstream ICT learning. Mobile learners were building confidence...
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Top tips for mlearning: wisdom of the crowd
Last week I ran a session at MobiMOOC2012 with educators and learning technologists from across the world, exploring different pedagogies, and learning theory often associated with mobile learning. Our aim was to explore the gap between the theory, and practice. The week started with a presentation from me, culminating in an open question:
Our collective MobiMOOC top tips were:
Some additional quotes from attendees that help back this up are:
What advice could the attendees (and other MobiMOOCers) offer to others interested in getting started with mobile learning?Discussions raged on for the rest of the week, with some great suggestions, and observations. The list, below, were our TOP TIPS:
Our collective MobiMOOC top tips were:
- One size does not fit all: choose the tools to fit the need and context
- Let learning design inform the technology (not the other way round)
- ACTIVE Learning: use mobile tools to do stuff - in the classroom, in the world
- Empowerment: allow the learners lead
- Use social media to collaborate and share
- Keep learning strategies AGILE: allow time, and space to iterate
- Start from the CONTEXT of use, involve learners and be creative
- Small, reusable content is more flexible for mobile use
Some additional quotes from attendees that help back this up are:
- Forget what you think the tech can do - what do you want to do?
- Information is everywhere, learners are mobile, m-devices are the bridge between them (Involve real-life tasks into educational activities)
- Let learners do things their way -- congratulate yourself if they do not proceed exactly like you had planned.
- While with technologies there is access to an abundance of information, this does not necessarily imply learning. It is what learners do with this information that leads to learning
- Small-size devices, straightforward activities (Reduce complicated learning procedures).
- 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...
- Mlearncon 2012
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...
- Mobimooc 2011 - A Summary
The first ever MobiMOOC (Massively online course on mobile learning) happened earlier this year. Were you there? If not, we have saved all the links, and best bits into our MobiMOOC 2011 summary. MOOCs are Massive Open Online Courses, normally free...
- Put Those Podcasts To Work On Your Pda!
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...
- Great Tools For Learning About It
Many of the learners on our m-learning projects started as very unconfident users of PCs. One of the surprise findings was that involvement in mobile learning was a very solid launch pad into mainstream ICT learning. Mobile learners were building confidence...