Mobile Learning - Jon Trinder

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Just CozYou Cant See It
Doesn't mean it isn't there
A brief history of the past present and future of mobile
learning

Jon Trinder
www.ninelocks.com jont@ninelocks.com
University of Glasgow j.trinder@elec.gla.ac.uk

@jont

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The Past

And Making the River Run Uphill


“Every era of technology has, to
some extent,formed education in
its own image”
(Sharples,Taylor,Vavoula)


History
1984 1993 1996 1999

http://members.surfeu.at/org2/psion1/


1996 PDA Specifications
Operating System PDA CPU RAM Screen Size Battery Life
Speed (Pixels)

WindowsCE Hewlett Packard 44Mhz 2MB 640 x 240 20 hours
HP 300LX,

Palm OS Palm Pilot 1000 16Mhz 128K 160 *160 6-8 Weeks

First Palm and WindowCE Machine specifications.

Note Most early projects used the Palm. Although it had less media capability it had huge
battery life making many projects feasible and set some expectations for what would be
practical in future. The move to devices with greater media capability but short battery life,
meant some of the promises of the future have not yet been realised....and also see the
next slide


Philosophical Differences
• “It may in fact transpire that different hardware
and software platforms support rather different
interpretations of mobile learning” (J Traxler
2007)


Batteries and Charging


What aspect is mobile?
The Technology or the Students?


Combination Devices


Application Areas

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Technologies
• PDA/Smartphones
• Phones/SMS
• MP3 Players
• Voting Systems
• USB Memory
• Voice Recorders
• Books!


What’s the best…
• Breakfast
• Car

• There is only Best for You


USB Memory
• 8 gig for 2 Pot Noodles!


Evaluating Mobile device use through automatic Logging
Mr J.J.Trinder, Dr S.Roy, Dr J.V.Magill
University of Glasgow
j.trinder@elec.gla.ac.uk
jont@ninelocks.com
s.roy@elec.gla.ac.uk
j.magill@elec.gla.ac.uk


What we found....

• Students not very co-operative
• Technology can be disruptive to its users
• Students _not_ as techno savvy as they
may appear or claim
• Limited Pocket Space
• Tech Ages Quickly


Evaluation IS difficult

Why Is Evaluation
Difficult?


All Users are Different

Note.This shows the % of use made of different type of application by 3
users. The median runtime is measured in seconds and indicates how long
the usage sessions were


Practical Issues
• Do you need special software on the device or in the
labs
• Have you got suitable materials for deliver on the
chosen device
• How are you going to transfer the materials
• Do the materials provided on the devices need to be
available in other forms as well,e.g. for partially
sighted students?


Mobile Learning..Is the Glass
• Half Full
• Half Empty
• Twice as big as it needs to be
• The Wrong glass


Bridging Worlds


Existing Bridges
• Twitter
• Email
• Streaming Video
• RSS
• ?


Physical to Virtual
www

sedgley

Follow sedgley on twitter
www.twitter.com/sedgley

Dohcross Worbridge

Interlife
Where Second Life meets Real Life
www.interlife.org

Victor Lally (University of Glasgow)
Brian Canavan (University of Glasgow)
Jane Magill (University of Glasgow)
Jon Trinder (University of Glasgow)
Steve Brindley (University of Glasgow)
Evan Magill (University of Stirling)
Mario Kolberg (University of Stirling)


What Is Interlife?

The project is investigating the use of Information and
Communications Technologies (ICTs) to support
skills development by young people to enhance their
management of life transitions.

Funded by TLRP and ESRC


What Is Interlife?

InterLife offers the opportunity for participants to
work together on transition activities in the
community, whether they are logged in, or using
their mobile device away from the desktop.


Resources


Reports
Personal Assistants (PDAs) in Further and Higher Education, Ted Smith (2003)
http://www.tsconsulting.co.uk/DownloadDocuments/PDAsinFurther&HigherEducation.doc

Handheld Computers in Schools BECTA report
http://www.becta.org.uk/page_documents/research/handhelds.pdf

Mobile and PDA technologies and their future use in education (Paul Anderson and Adam Blackwood)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/services/techwatch/reports/horizonscanning/hs0403.aspx

Kaleidoscope Big Issues in Mobile Learning
http://telearn.noekaleidoscope.org/warehouse/Sharples2006.pdf

BECTA Researching Mobile Learning (2007)
http://partners.becta.org.uk/uploaddir/downloads/page_documents/research/mobile_learning_july07.pdf

CTAD mLearning Publications
http://www.mlearning.org/knowledgecentre/mlearningresearch.htm

Commonwealth of Learning. Mobile Learning in Developing Countries
http://www.col.org/colweb/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/docs/KS2005_mlearn.pdf

Mobile technologies: prospects for their use in learning in informal science settings
http://jime.open.ac.uk/2005/25/


Books
• Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators and Trainers. Traxler, J. &
KukulskaHulme, A. (Eds.) Routledge. ISBN 0415357402

• Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training. Ed M Ally
http://www.aupress.ca/books/120155/ebook/99Z_Mohamed_Ally_2009
MobileLearning.pdf

• Handhelds For Doctors, Mohammad AlUbaydli, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN
0470858990

• Information Appliances and Beyond, Eric Bergman, Morgan Kaufmann ISBN:
1558606009

• Pervasive Computing, Jochen Burkhardt, Addison Wesley (2002) ISBN:
0201722151

• The Invisible Computer, Donald Norman, MIT Press (2002) 0 262 640414


Blogs etc
Shiny Project http://shinymolenet.wordpress.com
The Shiny project will focus on the use of mobile devices for the assessment of learning at
Gloucestershire College. The project will develop and implement the use of massessment
across the curriculum.

QR Codes Project with University of Bath JISC LTIG
http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/qrcode/

MoLeNET in General
http://www.molenet.org.uk/

James Clay Blog and Podcast mobile learning theme and topics
http://elearningstuff.wordpress.com
http://icanhaz.com/els (warning iTunes Store link)

Twitter
jamesclay thomcochrane timbuckteeth andyramsden


Mailing Lists, Forums
•
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/pdaedu
•
http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk
•
http://www.pocketpchow2.com/
•
http://www3.telus.net/~kdeanna/mlearning
•
http://cc.mlearnopedia.com/mobilelearning/training/


http://mobilelibraries.blogspot.com/
http://www.kwfdn.org/map/


The Future (used to be better)


New Technology

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is
just a natural part of the way the world works.

Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirtyfive is new and
exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

Anything invented after you’re thirtyfive is against the natural order of things.

[Douglas Adams, Peter Guzzardi, Terry Jones, The Salmon of Doubt]


Expect the unexpected

Eg Ultramobiles eeePC
QR Codes


RFID


GPS
• GPS In Devices
• Geocaching
• Context Awareness
• Augmented Reality
(have a play at http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality )


Other Projects
MoLeNET in General
http://www.molenet.org.uk/

Shiny Project http://shinymolenet.wordpress.com
The Shiny project will focus on the use of mobile devices for the assessment of learning at
Gloucestershire College. The project will develop and implement the use of massessment
across the curriculum.

QR Codes Project with University of Bath JISC LTIG
http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/qrcode/

Thom Cochrane (New Zealand)
http://ctliwiki.unitec.ac.nz/index.php/MobilePedagogy2
http://ctliwiki.unitec.ac.nz/index.php/IntegratingMobileWeb2
Stuart Smith (Manchester)
http://www.3sheep.co.uk/


Hear come the talkies
• Projectors on phones
• Even more storage

“Here come the talkies, obsolescence guaranteed;
here come the talkies, don't you see? “
(lyrics from www.sofasound.com)

Note, just because a new technology comes along you dont have to get rid of the old
one. Movies did not replace the still image


Other Sectors


Schools……


Meanwhile in HE


Barriers

Have you got an
Innovation Prevention Department?

Note What is your IPD called. Most often the answer is IT services, but
sometime purchasing departments are mentioned.


Unexpected Consequences
• The reuse of materials & mashups
• Infamy in an instant
• Mistakes captured for posterity


The Song Remains the Same
• Need to get content to and from devices
• Need to power the device
• Have compatible content
• Deal with the speed of change


Final Thoughts...
“Manifestly it is better to use simple tools
expertly than to possess a bewildering
assortment of complicated gadgets and either
neglect or use them incompetently”

LTC Rolt, 1947


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