This document provides an introduction to mobile learning, including: - An overview of the technologies used for mobile learning, such as PDAs, phones, MP3 players, and more. - A discussion of why mobile learning is needed, with an example of how radiology trainees benefit from portable learning tools. - A brief history of PDAs and their increasing capabilities from 1984 to present day. - Considerations for deploying mobile learning, including preparing materials, technical support needs, and challenges with evaluation. - Resources for further information on reports, books, and websites related to mobile and handheld learning.

4. What is mlearning?

5. What aspect is mobile? The Technology or the Students?

7. Combination Devices

8. Application Areas 06/05/09 jont@ninelocks.com Learning Lab

9. Why Do We need mLearning

11. History

12. History http://members.surfeu.at/org2/psion1/ 1984 1996 1999 1993

13. 1996 PDA Specifications First Palm and WindowCE Machine specifications. 6-8 Weeks 160 *160 128K 16Mhz Palm Pilot 1000 Palm OS 20 hours 640 x 240 2MB 44Mhz Hewlett Packard HP 300LX, WindowsCE Battery Life Screen Size (Pixels) ‏ RAM CPU Speed PDA Operating System

15. The Free PDA

18. PDA Uses

19. PDA Anatomy 06/05/09 jont@ninelocks.com Learning Lab

22. Resets Applications are not informed of the system reset. May be useful to enable faulty applications to be uninstalled if something is preventing the machine from starting Preset reset button while holding the scroll up button. No-Notification Erase all memory. System will display confirmation message before performing the clear. Press reset button while holding Power button Hard Clears dynamic RAM Storage RAM unaffected.(You keep your applications and data!) ‏ Press reset button Soft Affect How Type

23. Software for Mobiles There is a choice!!!!

28. Thinking of Using Mobile Devices

31. Charging

32. Evaluation

33. Why Is Evaluation Difficult? Evaluation IS difficult

34. Evaluation IS difficult Students cannot or will not always be able to tell an evaluator about their abilities, knowledge, values,needs,preferences,goals or feelings, or any changes in them-they may not be able to put them into words,they may be too embarrassed to disclose or reveal. (Traxler 2003) ‏

35. Resources

36. Reports Personal Assistants (PDAs) in Further and Higher Education, Ted Smith (2003) http://www.ts-consulting.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.noe-kaleidoscope.org/warehouse/Sharples-2006.pdf BECTA Researching Mobile Learning (2007) http://partners.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/page_documents/research/mobile_learning_july07.pdf CTAD mLearning Publications http://www.m-learning.org/knowledge-centre/m-learning-research.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/

40. Or have both! Palm Simulator www.styletap.com

47. Over to You!