Mobile Learning
Roundtable
Judy Brown
24 March 2009

Let’s Discuss
•What is mobile learning?
•Why should we care?
•Who is doing what?
•What does the future look like?
•Where do we learn more?

Wikipedia Definition
“Learning that happens across
locations, or that takes advantage
of learning opportunities offered
by portable technologies.”

The Horizon Report 2009 Edition
“Already considered as another component of the
network on many campuses, mobiles continue to evolve
rapidly. New interfaces, the ability to run third-party
applications, and location-awareness have all come to
the mobile device in the past year, making it an ever
more versatile tool that can be easily adapted to a host of
tasks for learning, productivity, and social networking.
For many users, broadband mobile devices like the
iPhone have already begun to assume many tasks that
were once the exclusive province of portable
computers.”

Mobile Devices
• Most of us have one…
• We take it everywhere…
• It’s always on…
• It’s incredibly private…
• It’s incredibly social…
• It’s about choices…

2009 Mobile Youth Report
• Mobile World Congress release
• Spent $270 billion a year on mobile – 10
times more than the entire global recorded
music industry
• Youth are spending more on data and less
on voice (teens (12‐17), students (18‐22)
young adults (23‐27)

Swiss Army Knife of the 21st Century
“The convenience and
pervasiveness of mobile
devices is their main strength.
Use this strength to reach your
learners with information they
need, store information your
learners may need later, and
get learners to complete tasks
while going about their day-to-
day lives.”
Leonard Low

“It is not the laptop computer, but the cell
phone that is going to change everything.”
http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/
1604/improving-education-with-teacher-of-the-year

Types of Mobile Learning
Learning Productivity
• Lectures / podcasts •Campus tours
• Assessment/quiz •Grades
• Assignments •Registration
• User generated content •Polling
•Safety
Collaboration Reference
• Access to faculty and students • Information - specialties
• Coaches • Campus
• Social networking • eBooks

Welcome to Hairdressing Training
Voted Britain's
best example of
handheld
learning
http://htmob.mobi/demo/

Abilene Christian University
• Syllabus
• “Clicker”
• Resources - dictionary,
thesaurus, calculator,
etc.
• Classroom
communicator
• Podcasting client
• eBook
• Internet
communicator
• Course information
• Notetaking
• Gradebook/
attendance
http://m.acu.edu

http://mobi.mit.edu/about/ - http://m.mit.edu

Mobile Simulator
• Live Opera browser
• http://www.opera.com/
mini/demo/
• http://ready.mobi

Interactivity

Video at MWC

Transparent Devices

Next Generation Solutions
• Context aware
• Location Services
• Sensors
• Accelerometers
• Orientation sensors
• Heart rate
• Blood glucose
http://fullpower.com

http://cc.mlearnopedia.com

Questions / Discussion
Judy Brown
judy@judybrown.com
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