Implementing Mobile
Learning in Your Institution




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Your presenters:




Steve Boneham     Doug Belshaw
 JISC Netskills    JISC infoNet
Where to go for theory and context:




           http://mobilereview.jiscpress.org
Helpful guides:




Emerging Practice   Mobile Learning
 in a Digital Age       infoKit
       (JISC)           (JISC infoNet)
Structure:

   Intro

                    Quick wins

               Intermediate

          Getting more complex...

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Intro
Mobile Learning Myths:
1. Mobile devices have screens too small to
   allow for learning.
2. Mobile devices are unsuitable for learning
   as they are a distraction.
3. Mobile learning is just ‘learning on the
   move’.
                (more at http://bit.ly/mobilelearninginfokit)



    
‘Nomophobia’
"Students respond to requests to shut off their
phones with a sense of panic, a feeling that they
will be cut off from their world of personal
relationships. This feeling, taken to its extreme, has
been dubbed "nomophobia," the fear of being
forced to shut off a phone, or the obsessive worry
of losing a phone. There is even a support Web
site for nomophobics."
                                     (Woodill, 2011, p.150)
Mobile learning is here to stay:




                                                                                   Society


Institutions

       http://blog.observatory.jisc.ac.uk/2011/09/15/workshop-report-technology-outlook
Quick wins
Individual level:

                        These are the kind of
                        mobile learning
                        projects that can be
                        done by individual
                        academics, learning
                        technologists, etc.




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Map of projects:
QR codes 
• University Campus
 Suffolk

Social media
• University of
  Wolverhampton
• University of Ulster
• University of
 Glamorgan
QR Codes: Suffolk
   (Case Study 8, Emerging Practice)
Puentadura’s SAMR model:




      http://www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog
Social Media: Wolverhampton
         (Case Study 3, Emerging Practice)
Social Media: Ulster
     (Case Study 1, Emerging Practice)
Social Media: Glamorgan
                         (p.48, Emerging Practice)




 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/ltig/scale.aspx
Intermediate
Department/faculty level:

                           These are the kind of
                           mobile learning
                           projects that really
                           need some kind of
                           buy-in or acceptance
                           by department or
                           faculty to work well



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Map of projects:
Recording lectures
• University of Exeter
eBooks
• University of Leicester
  (DUCKLING project)
Thom Cochrane’s Mobile Web 2.0




      http://web.me.com/thom_cochrane/MobileWeb2
Recording Lectures: Exeter
       (Case Study 2, Emerging Practice)
eBooks: Leicester
                               (p.48, Emerging Practice)




http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/duckling
Calibre




http://calibre-ebook.com
Getting more
 complex...
Institutional level:

                           These are the kind of
                           mobile learning
                           projects that usually
                           require the buy-in/
                           adoption of a whole
                           institution to make
                           sense.



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Map of projects:
Campus information
• University of Oxford
• MyMobileBristol
SMS
• ALPS
Campus information: Oxford
        (Case Study 9, Emerging Practice)
Campus information: Bristol
         (http://mymobilebristol.com)
Koole’s mobile learning framework

                    On an institutional level,
                    things need thinking
                    through from several
                    points of view:
                     
                      • Strategic
                      • Pedagogic
                      • IT
                      • Marketing
                      • etc.
SMS: ALPS
(Case Study 7, Emerging Practice)
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BOTTOM-UP
What’s on the horizon?

• Augmented Reality         (University of Exeter)



• Next-generation interfaces                (King’s College, London)



• Gamification   (University of Edinburgh)




                              (see Emerging Practice in a Digital Age, p.48-9)
Helpful guides:




Emerging Practice   Mobile Learning
 in a Digital Age       infoKit
       (JISC)           (JISC infoNet)
Other helpful resources:

• JISC Mail (e.g. PDA-EDU)
• IAMLearn mailing list
• mLearnopedia
• NMC Navigator
Questions?




doug.belshaw@northumbria.ac.uk
steven.boneham@newcastle.ac.uk

Implementing Mobile Learning in Your Institution