MobiMundi: Exploring the Impact of Current and Emerging Mobile Technologies and Services on Higher Education

Breakout Session: MobiMundi: Exploring the Impact of Current and Emerging Mobile Technologies and Services on Higher Education Mark A.M. Kramer

Overview:

Abstract:

Mobile information and communication technologies are increasingly impacting the lives of individuals and are a major factor in helping re-shape our cultures and societies...

Abstract:

... Ubiquitous computing and mixed-reality computing scenarios are becoming commonplace and have a huge influence in the way in which individuals relate with others and their surroundings...

Abstract:

This breakout session will provide the environment to explore the impact of existing and emerging mobile information & communications technologies and services on Higher Education and in society in general

Questions :

What is Ubiquitous and Mixed Reality Learning?

Are Ubiquitous and Mixed Reality practices feasible...and...

Questions : ...will this bring a positive impact on higher education?

What is Ubiquitous and Mixed Reality Learning?

Are Ubiquitous and Mixed Reality practices feasible...and...

Higher Education:

Quote of the Day: "There is a need to re-conceptualize learning for the mobile age , to recognize the essential role of mobility and communication in the process of learning." -- Mike Sharples: University of Nottingham

What is the mobile age?

What is mobility?

What is communication?

What is education?

What is technology?

What is learning?

What is educational technology?

 EdTech and Learning : What is the relationship between educational technologies and learning?

Current and Emerging Mobile Technologies:

 Existing Technologies : Which existing technologies are acrtually used for supporting learning?

Existing Technologies :

Communication Technologies

Tools for Cooperation

Tools for Collaboration

Digital artefacts (RSS, Open Courseware)

Tech & Services Actually Used :

Communication (synchronous)

Phone

Skype - Gizmo Project

Instant messaging

e-Mail / SMS (asynchronous)

Social Networking Portals

Pencil & Paper:

 Impulse : Which emerging technologies can potentially change the way we learn and acquire knowledge?

Emerging Technologies :  Introduction :

Presence - Microblogging

Mobile Learning

Ubiquitous Social Networks

Personal Learning Spaces

Presence - Microblogging:  Introduction :

Twitter

Jaiku

What are you doing?:

Presence - Microblogging :

--Mobile Blogging:

Mobile Learning:

Mobile Websites

Ubiquitous Social Networks

Personal Learning Spaces

Ubiquitous & Pervasive Learning:

Ubiquitous & Pervasive Learning: A New Quality of Learning:

Ubiquitous computing is a post-desktop model of human-computer interaction in which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities