The document discusses how smartphones have enabled information and communication to be accessible to nearly everyone globally in just 70 years. It argues that higher education assessment is still based on a contextual model of learning around campus, while the mobile age allows for assessment to be location-independent, convenient, learner-controlled, and socially connected. The document provides examples of how different types of mobile assessments could work, such as presentations, role plays, reflections, and discusses both opportunities and issues to consider with adopting mobile assessments.

1. Smartphones
to Smart Students

2. I’m the project lead

3. It took just seventy years to get from a
device the size of a two-story building to
a device that fits in your pocket. Seventy
years to build a browsable, searchable
archive of information, accessible
globally. Seventy years between a time
when research and data was locked up
in books, available to only a privileged
few, and a time when information and
communication could be obtained by
everyone, everywhere.
- Karen McGrane
http://flic.kr/p/5pzS4b

4. 1993
2013
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cbken/1993_vs_2013/

5. This is cultural,
not just technical!
http://instagram.com/p/W2BuMLQLRB/

6. Higher Education is
stuck with a contextual
model of learning that
is based around
the campus.

7. PC AGE
situated
MOBILE AGE
! location "
static
! environment "
slow
! speed of change "
separated
formal
low
! technology "
! structure "
! level of convenience "
abstracted
! authenticity "
centralised
! resources "
mobile
dynamic
rapid
embedded
organic
high
situated
distributed

8. PC AGE
situated
SMENT
ASSES
! location "
static
! environment "
slow
! speed of change "
separated
formal
low
! technology "
! structure "
! level of convenience "
abstracted
! authenticity "
centralised
! resources "
MOBILE AGE
mobile
dynamic
rapid
embedded
organic
high
situated
distributed

9. Mobile
Opportunities.
http://flic.kr/p/dS7kwj

10. Smartphone penetration
has doubled since 2010,
reaching 72% of total
mobile phone users
(up from 36% in 2010),
and continues to grow.
Telstra’s third annual Smartphone Index, October 2013

11. Relevant.
Assessment can be situated rather than
simulated
http://flic.kr/p/8cH6P7

12. Convenient & Flexible
Assessment can occur anywhere, at any time.
http://flic.kr/p/4zUtw4

13. Learner Controlled.
Students can take the initiative and
direct their own activities
http://flic.kr/p/9qWMQY

14. Socially Connected.
Assessment is opened to new
channels of communication.
http://flic.kr/p/sZiRe

15. Reflective.
Mobile enables effortless recording of
authentic learning for a portfolio

16. Record the world
http://flic.kr/p/68JTdD

17. Presentation
http://flic.kr/p/5Xjxdn

18. Demonstration
http://flic.kr/p/bXshJQ

19. Role Play
http://flic.kr/p/7Uf6JJ

20. Performance
http://flic.kr/p/9sTaar

21. Reflection
http://flic.kr/p/e6sMgr

22. Evidence
Gathering
http://flic.kr/p/5KGg5B

23. Interview
http://flic.kr/p/cDgyhy

24. Resource
Development
http://flic.kr/p/9J8bRP

25. Case Study
http://flic.kr/p/5gDQ

26. Storytelling
http://flic.kr/p/9J8bRP

27. Structuring
Assessment
http://flic.kr/p/7Nr7Su

28. Record + Submit
http://flic.kr/p/5pzS4b

29. Record + Reflect
Record + Submit
http://flic.kr/p/5pzS4b

30. Record + SHARE
Record + Reflect
http://flic.kr/p/5pzS4b
Record + Submit

31. Record + Evaluate
Record + SHARE
Record + Reflect
http://flic.kr/p/5pzS4b
Record + Submit

32. Record + CRITIQUE+ REPEAT
Record + Evaluate
Record + SHARE
Record + Reflect
http://flic.kr/p/5pzS4b
Record + Submit

33. Issues
http://flic.kr/p/5PbsGo

34. Privacy
A dependancy on 3rd party
services -YouTube, Vimeo
http://flic.kr/p/Wd54U

35. Access
Ensuring equity to technology
- devices & connections
http://flic.kr/p/4LsQ2H

36. Technology
Not getting the way.
Assessing the “product”, not the process
http://flic.kr/p/48dY9v

37. Thank You!
Twitter: @timklapdor
Blog: timklapdor.wordpress.com
Email: tklapdor@csu.edu.au
http://flic.kr/p/9rK5KD