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

Priorities
 Consolidate and grow the mobile learning community
recruitment drive
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active website
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 Make formal links to other national and international mobile
learning organisations, including
Handheld Learning Forum
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International Association for Mobile Learning (IAML)
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 Provide resources for the Kaleidoscope Virtual Doctoral School
 Develop shared resources for research
shared bibliography
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inventory of research projects;
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 Contribute a mobile learning activity to the Kaleidoscope
symposium
 Form a durable European Mobile Learning SIG
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Recruitment
 Now 92 members of the SIG, including two
from outside Europe
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Alpine Rendezvous
 Organised a Workshop on Mobile Learning
for 18 people at the Alpine Rendezvous in
February
 Produced Proceedings of the Workshop
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Website
 Developed an extensive website for the European
Mobile Learning community including:
News updates of mobile learning research
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Inventory of current and recent projects
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Names, contact details and brief biographies of mobile
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learning researchers
A calendar of international mobile learning events
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Resources, including Mobile Learning stamped papers from
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TeLearn, presentations, videos, and a bibliography of some
250 entries
Links to academic websites and mobile learning companies
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 Thanks to Rune Baggetun and Tim Jay
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Big Issues Report
 Produced a professionally designed and
printed Big Issues in Mobile Learning
report
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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.
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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
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Other Activities
 Contributed materials to the TeLearn
archive, including stamping of mobile
learning articles (currently 24 entries)
 Held this SIG meeting
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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
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eLearning Africa, DelPHE, Educa, UNESCO
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 LearningLab

Projects
 Kenya
Ministry of Education
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SEMA – evaluation soon

Ministry of Youth Affairs

disengaged youth - perhaps

Bio-Vision – launched yesterday
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 South Africa
MobilED – rolling out
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TRIGONE/LIFL - Noce Team
 P-LearNet project started early 2007
Funded by French national research agency
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3 years
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Focused on the use of pervasive technologies for learning in
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the context of professional activities
Experimentations with sellers, postal services, medical sector
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http://p-learnet.univ-lille1.fr
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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.
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 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
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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
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Technological
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Material and functional (Businesses and market)
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Socio-cultural
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Conv. of action and space (activity spaces)
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Linguistic
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Theoretical
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Conv. of contents
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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 ??
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