This Learning Forum session focused on new College initiatives to produce mobile-friendly learning content for students. Using a range of examples of apps in production (such a clinical skills apps being developed in collaboration with Russells Hall Hospital) and others in planning, John Couperthwaite, Marcus Belben and David Morley discussed the challenges of developing mobile technology, the new pedagogical considerations it presents, and the issues arising from publishing to a global audience.

1. “...mobile learning is more than just using a mobile device to access content
and communicate with others - it is about the mobility of the learner”
See: JISC InfoKit - https://mobilelearninginfokit.pbworks.com/w/page/41122430/Home

3. Tangible benefits of mobile learning
• Personal, private and familiar (reduce perceived barriers to learning)
• Fit into the lives of learners (allow for productive ‘dead’ time - e.g. when travelling or queuing)
• Portable - allow anywhere, anytime learning
• Allows access to learning by those in dispersed communities and isolated situations
• Allows data to be recorded and learning processes captured wherever they happen.
• Access to mentors, tutors and others learners on-the-move.
• Bite-sized e-learning resources can be delivered to learners (especially useful for basic skills or work-
based learning)
• Promotes active learning
• Encourages reflection in close proximity to the learning event
See: JISC InfoKit - https://mobilelearninginfokit.pbworks.com/w/page/41122430/Home

4. Educational frameworks (1)
Laurillard (2002) - A Conversational framework
See: JISC InfoKit - https://mobilelearninginfokit.pbworks.com/w/page/41122430/Home

5. Educational frameworks (2)
Park (2011) - Pedagogical Framework for Mobile Learning
See: JISC InfoKit - https://mobilelearninginfokit.pbworks.com/w/page/41122430/Home

6. Educational frameworks (3)
Koole - A Model for Framing Mobile Learning (2009)
See: JISC InfoKit - https://mobilelearninginfokit.pbworks.com/w/page/41122430/Home

7. 10 steps to mobile learning adoption

9. Three flavours of mobile learning
Apps eBooks Websites

10. Quick quiz: Pick the app !!!
Apps eBooks Websites
Course Learning
Information Quizes Placements Textbook
Resource

12. Mobile Learning

13. Just in time learning?

14. Not invented here?

15. What goes into an App?
Learning
Reference Materials
Materials
Communication Quizzes
tools

16. Attitude to resources?

17. It’s not all mobile?
Teachers Placements
Environment Students

18. What to make available?