Mike Sharples

European Mobile Learning SIG meeting http://mlearning.noe-kaleidoscope.org/ October 20, 2007

Priorities  Consolidate and grow the mobile learning community recruitment drive  active website   Make formal links to other national and international mobile learning organisations, including Handheld Learning Forum  International Association for Mobile Learning (IAML)   Provide resources for the Kaleidoscope Virtual Doctoral School  Develop shared resources for research shared bibliography  inventory of research projects;   Contribute a mobile learning activity to the Kaleidoscope symposium  Form a durable European Mobile Learning SIG www.noe-kaleidoscope.org 2

Recruitment  Now 92 members of the SIG, including two from outside Europe www.noe-kaleidoscope.org 3

Alpine Rendezvous  Organised a Workshop on Mobile Learning for 18 people at the Alpine Rendezvous in February  Produced Proceedings of the Workshop www.noe-kaleidoscope.org 4

Website  Developed an extensive website for the European Mobile Learning community including: News updates of mobile learning research  Inventory of current and recent projects  Names, contact details and brief biographies of mobile  learning researchers A calendar of international mobile learning events  Resources, including Mobile Learning stamped papers from  TeLearn, presentations, videos, and a bibliography of some 250 entries Links to academic websites and mobile learning companies   Thanks to Rune Baggetun and Tim Jay www.noe-kaleidoscope.org 5

Big Issues Report  Produced a professionally designed and printed Big Issues in Mobile Learning report www.noe-kaleidoscope.org 6

VDS Workshop  Organised a workshop for 15 PhD students at Växjö University, November 1st -2nd  Its purpose is to elaborate and explore those aspects related to the design, implementation and evaluation of future learning environments supported by mobile technologies. www.noe-kaleidoscope.org 7

Kaleidoscope Symposium  Organised a session for the Kaleidoscope Symposium on 26-27th November in Berlin on “Mobile Learning and Beyond”  Workshop, six demonstration slots and an exhibition stand www.noe-kaleidoscope.org 8

Other Activities  Contributed materials to the TeLearn archive, including stamping of mobile learning articles (currently 24 entries)  Held this SIG meeting www.noe-kaleidoscope.org 9

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News October 20, 2007

Mobile Learning Towards a research agenda  http://www.wlecentre.ac.uk/cms/files/occasion alpapers/mobilelearning_pachler2007.pdf

John Traxler - this year  Microsoft Mobile Learning Summit  MoLeNET launch  Workshops: UK, India, South Africa, Canada  eLearning Africa, DelPHE, Educa, UNESCO   LearningLab

Projects  Kenya Ministry of Education  SEMA – evaluation soon  Ministry of Youth Affairs  disengaged youth - perhaps  Bio-Vision – launched yesterday   South Africa MobilED – rolling out 

TRIGONE/LIFL - Noce Team  P-LearNet project started early 2007 Funded by French national research agency  3 years  Focused on the use of pervasive technologies for learning in  the context of professional activities Experimentations with sellers, postal services, medical sector  http://p-learnet.univ-lille1.fr 

COoperation in Learning COmmunities wireless technologies to support learning geographies in the city Mobile learners @the university pervasive awareness applications to support connectedness We have available some grants for supporting guest researchers NTNU, Trondheim, NORWAY

Doctoral Thesis: In Progress Determining the Future of Mobile Learning on Individual and Collaborative Learning Practices: A Delphi Study Mark A.M. Kramer

Research Focus: >>People<< Mobility of the Individual Usability Testing - Field Research Ubiquitous & Pervasive Learning Mobile Addiction / dependence Mobile Healthcare Citizen Media

Chris Dennett, University of Wolverhampton  Last year: projectBluetooth: Development of an asynchronous multimedia broadcast system for mobile  devices. Bridges the gap between the distance benefits of SMS and the richness,  but expense, of MMS technology. Allows transmission of any multimedia object to phones and PDAs with no  transmission cost. Results soon.   This year: Spatial & Temporal Context Aware Systems Developing generic wireless sensor network technology, essentially a  classroom in a suitcase. Hardware establishes spatial context, using concept similar to ‘active  badges’ worn by students and mote technology to detect their proximity to points of interest. Software establishes temporal context using rule based engine to infer  topics of interest and continuation across multiple environments Live transmission to user owned handsets and creation of automatic  multimedia blog online

Ericsson Mobile learning Projects  Ericsson is participating in a number of EU funded projects as follows:  The Role of Mobile Learning in European Education  The Impact of New Technologies on Distance Learning Students  CONTSENS project – using wireless technologies for context sensitive education and training – (to commence Jan 08)  Research includes the definition of a pedagogical framework for the development of Mobile Learning courseware  For further information please access http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/corpinfo/programs/index.shtml Or contact bernadette.simpson@ericsson.com

Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence Sept. 27–29, 2007, Budapest http://www.socialscience.t-mobile.hu/2007 Types of convergence Digital  Technological  Material and functional (Businesses and market)  Socio-cultural  Conv. of action and space (activity spaces)  Linguistic  Theoretical  Conv. of contents  Special Session : Education, Teaching, and the Communication of Knowledge Upcoming conference: Mobile Communication and the Ethics of Social Networking http://www.socialscience.t-mobile.hu/pro_en.htm

Talks and Presentations Related to M-Learning  András Benedek, New Learning Paradigm: Interactivity and Mobility Beyond the Classroom  Ian Smythe, The Impact of Cognitive Deficits in Developing Technological Advances  Anguelina Popova/Paul Kirschner, Innovative Pedagogical and Psychological Perspectives of Podcasts  Judit Radnóti, Mobile Communication and Second Language Teaching  Klára Benda, A Theoretical Framework for Institutions in Networked Education The pre-proceeding volume will be available soon at http://www.socialscience.t-mobile.hu/2007  CFP see soon at http://www.socialscience.t-mobile.hu/pro_en.htm

Gábor KISMIHÓK Starting from the spring semester of the year 2006/2007 more than 3000 students can reach and use mobilized learning content with their mobile devices at the Corvinus University of Budapest. Running project: The role of mobile learning in European education, European Socrates- Minerva Project www.ericsson.com/socrates2006 Recently finished project: Mobile Learning in Mainstream Education - European Leonardo da Vinci Project www.ericsson.com/mlearning3 Publications, conferences - 2007: Mobile Learning: a Practical Guide (book, edited by: Desmond Keegan) IADIS mLearning conference 2007, Lisbon Taking Learning Mobile Conference, Dublin 11th ECDL Conference, Budapest Online Educa Berlin 2007

News from John Cook, Learning Technology Research Institute, London Metropolitan University Talks and events  Cook, J. (2007). Generating New Learning Contexts: Novel Forms of Reuse and Learning on the Move. Invited talk at ED-MEDIA 2007 – World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, June 25-29, Vancouver, Canada. See Paper: http://www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk/dissemination/events/EdMedia2007%20Cook_invited_paper_final.doc  Cook, J. and Whitworth, D. (2007). If You Are Learning or Studying How Can You Shape the Process and Content of your Learning? Part of Learner Generated Context event: Is User Generated Content more than YouTube and MySpace? London Knowledge Lab, September 12th. See the slides from the talk and a summary of the debate that took place at: http://learnergeneratedcontexts.pbwiki.com/LKLEvent

New projects  Funding for the CONTSENS project, using wireless technologies for context sensitive education and training, has been approved by the Leonardo Lifelong Learning Programme (start tbc 2007). The 2 year project involves a European- wide consortium headed by Ericsson Education Ireland, with Giunti Labs, ECLO, Plovdiv University and Corvinno. John Cook leads the Learning Technology Research Institute team that also includes Claire Bradley, Richard Haynes and Carl Smith. Publications  Cook, J., Bradley, C., Lance, J., Smith, C. and Haynes, R. (2007). Generating Learning Contexts with Mobile Devices. In Norbert Pachler (Ed.), Mobile Learning: Towards a Research Agenda, London, WLE Occasional Papers, Institute of Education. Book available in PDF from: http://www.wlecentre.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=126&Itemid=50  Bradley, C., Haynes, R., Cook, J., Boyle, T. and Smith, C. (in press). Design and Development of Multimedia Learning Objects for Mobile Phones. In Mohamed Ally (Ed.), Mobile Learning in Education and Training. Athabasca University Press.

PI: Personal Inquiry  3 year project  Funded by UK Research Councils  Nottingham and Open University  Mobile technology to support 21st century science inquiry across formal and informal settings

International Association of Mobile Learning From Herman van der Merwe  Constitution: The approved constitution agreed on in Canada, without the Canadian law requirements.  Office holders: Currently the 8 organisers of the mLearn conferences  Website: Waiting for formal domain name registration confirmation.  The final legal documents will be signed by all the directors @ mLearn 2007  Next: We need to decide on a look & feel for the website;  What kind of info do we need to put onto the website?  Registration fees + form  ?? anything else ?? www.noe-kaleidoscope.org 28

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