Mindful Learning Technologies

P R O F. D R . M A R C U S S P E C H T
CENTRE FOR LEARNING SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES
OPEN UNIVERSITEIT NEDERLAND
MARCUS.SPECHT@OU.NL
T W I T T E R , F L I C K R , FA C E B O O K : M A R C U S P E C H T
#1 ARE WE MINDFUL
TECHNOLOGY USERS?
APP IDEA OUT OF EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOP WITH WORDS …

L O C AT I O N , L E A R N , F I LT E R

CHOOSE 3 PLACES
IN WHICH YOU LEARN
WITH THIS MOBILE APP
mindful |ˈmīndfəәl|
adjective [ predic. ]
conscious or aware of something: we can
be more mindful of the energy we use to heat
our homes.
BUT …
“The most profound technologies are those that
disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric
of everyday life until they are indistinguishable
from it.”
–MARC WEISER


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Technologies

Enhancement
Learning
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Mobile, Seamless, Ubiquitous

Technologies

Personalised and Collaborative
Sensors and Context-Aware
BigData, and Analytics

Enhancement
Learning
Awareness

Curiosity

...

Knowledge Reflection

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#2 CHANGES IN KEY
TECHNOLOGIES
multifunction personal hubs...
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sensing and augmenting...
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networked ...
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fb

twitter

...

data logging learning analytics ...
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#4 SEAMLESS AND
UBIQUITOUS TECHNOLOGIES
SEAMS IN LEARNING SUPPORT

(WONG ET AL, 2011)

• Formal and informal learning;
• Personalized and social learning;
• Across time; locations, social contexts
• Combined use of multiple device types;
• Physical and digital worlds
• Multiple learning tasks knowledge synthesis
Wong, L.-H., & Looi, C.-K. (2011). What Seams Do We Remove in Mobile Assisted Seamless Learning? A Critical
Review of the Literature. Computers & Education, 57(4), 2364–2381. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2011.06.007

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distributed synced data ...
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M U LT I - D E V I C E O U T P U T

personal and social views ...
embedded in real world …
real world mashups ...
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building instruments ?

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#3 HUMAN LEARNING …
HUMANS STRUCTURE AND …

CONNECT EPISODES ...
LEARNING IS EMBEDDED …

… IN A CONTEXT ...
H U M A N S D O N O T A LW A Y S L I K E T O D O …

REFLECTION


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#6 AWARENESS
measuring power consumption on campus with standard facility
management, plus sensors on workplaces and public devices,
personal registration of power consuming activities.

Energy consumption ...
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M A I N R E S U LT S E N E R G Y A W A R E N E S S
• Situated displays have a generic effect of raising

awareness and energy consumption on a mid to long
term

• Badge and social incentive systems must be

embedded with social media to have an effect

• Real world action foster curiosity, discussion, and

reflection about the topic when combined with public
displays
attention-aware displays ...

• raise and retain attention significantly

better.
• lead not to higher cognitive load but to a
significant higher knowledge gain.
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#7 CURIOSITY
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Enhancement

inquiry engine,
mobile data collection,
learning analytics

Inquiry process, authentic data, formal to informal

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weSPOT...
:-o ... curiosity ...
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OPENSOURCE FRAMEWORK FOR MIXED REALITY GAMES

ARLEARN
LANGUAGE
LEARNING

• http://www.elena-

learning.eu
#8 REFLECTION
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context indicators ...
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reflection amplifiers ...
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Personal Context Notifications

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DIALOGUE

Metalogue - FP7 ICT 

Grant Agreement 611073
#9 SUMMARY
SO …
• #1 There are seams between the different learning

contexts, locations, times, social contexts, …

• #2 There are opportunities with new technologies

that are open, ubiquitous, context-aware, and
personalized.

• #3 look at the aimed effects on awareness,

curiosity, creativity, knowledge, latent variables, …
MINDFUL AND SEAMLESS LEARNING …

• ubiquitous open content access,
• flexible sensor data aggregation,
• synchronisation of channels (to context

and person),

• and dynamic visualization and output

indicators (ambient displays).
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P R E S E N TAT I O N , L E A R N , F I LT E R

CHOOSE 3 THINGS
Y O U TA K E W I T H Y O U
F R O M T H I S TA L K
M.M. SPECHT

THANK YOU !

Mindful Learning Technologies