MOBILE EDUCATIONAL RALLEY
&
The Bremen Adventure
Presentation for the class: Mobile Learning
Lecturers: Dennis Krannich & Zare Saeed
Place & Time: Uni Bremen, 04. Feb. 2009
Presenters: Thamya, Lew, Jasmin & Jan

CONTENT
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1. Introduction, Idea & Concept
2. Sample Adventure
Pedagogic Benefits
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4. Live Demonstration
5. Technical Implementation
6. Usability Testing
7. Project in Context and Future
Work
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IDEA & CONCEPT
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 Guided outdoor learning
 explorative fashion
 for class groups
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 Scavenger hunt; easy to prepare
 Common mobile phones (no
GPS)
 Learning points and questions as
guidance
 Support for traditional lessons
 Open framework, supports any
topic, multimodal, multilingual
 Target-Group: 3
Middle-School and up

SAMPLE ADVENTURE
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 History of Bremen and the Hanse
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SAMPLE ADVENTURE

PEDAGOGIC BENEFITS
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 Constructivist
 Focus on exploration
 Communication and collaboration
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 Students find ‘their own way’ to give
answers
 Outdoors, with all senses and ‘in-touch’
with the learning material / content
 Students are responsible for what they
learn
 Motivation
 Challenging
 Competitive notion
 Scores
 No loose-policy with hints
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(cf. e.g. Chris Crawford 1982)

PEDAGOGIC BENEFITS
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 4 types of learners:  Learning through senses
 auditory (% quote of memorization):
 hearing only 20%
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 visual
 seeing only 30%
 motor-learning
 hearing and seeing 50%
 communicative
 hearing, seeing & discussing
70%
 hearing, seeing, discussion &
do-it-yourself 90%
(Pohl 1996)
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http://www.smart-kit.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/sleep-learning.jpg

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LIVE DEMONSTRATION

TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION
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 Java ME (J2ME)
 Adventures read from XML
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 Supports sound and images
(video planned)
 Node based implementation,
extremely variable use
 Open Source, download at:
http://code.google.com/p/schnit
zelhunt/
 (GNU General Public License v3)
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http://www.globalstudio.co.uk/images/content_implement.jpg

USABILITY TESTING
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 Test session with live run, 6 participants (2 x 3)
 ~ 15 minutes per run
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 Every player one phone & one observer
 One technical advisor
 Short introduction + pre- and post-survey
 Theoretically barrier free
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USABILITY TESTING

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USABILITY TESTING

SURVEY AND FEEDBACK
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 All participants had fun
 Everybody completed
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 All but one intuitively used the interface
 Some remembered unrelated info
 Most remembered content related info (mice)
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USABILITY TESTING

SURVEY AND FEEDBACK
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 Adventures must be designed carefully
 Instruct for teamwork
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 Clear instructions with few words
 Prevent try-and-error
 All participants thought it was engaging and a good
supplement for traditional learning
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PROJECT IN CONTEXT & FUTURE WORK
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 Extensions:
 Extend with web-interface
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 Adventure Builder & Preview (visual interface, e.g. AJAX)
 Share adventure files and download
 Allow more media (video, sound, animations)
 Better interface
 Better interoperability (e.g. polish)
 Similar projects (e.g. Venice)
 Our approach is unique (works now with existing
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hardware)

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QUESTIONS & COMMENTS

SOURCES
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 Crawford, C. (1982): The Art of Computer Game Design. URL:
http://www.mindsim.com/MindSim/Corpo-rate/artCGD.pdf. Electronic Revision by Sue Peabody,
Department of History, Washington State University Vancouver 1997 (Abruf: 20. Juni 2006)
 Pohl, W. (1996): Das Lernen lernen. URL: http://www.pohlw.de/lernen/kurs/lernen-kurs.doc. (Abruf: Juni
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2006)
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