Planning for our Success at Lamar University by learning from other global mobile learning initiatives. Successful initiatives had a clear vision and leadership, used mobile devices to complement rather than replace computers, provided robust professional development and technical support for teachers, and conducted continuous monitoring and evaluation to ensure improvement. Applying these lessons can help ensure the success and sustainability of Lamar's mobile learning initiative.

1. Planning for our Success
Applying the lessons learned from global technology innovation projects

2. Classrooms around the world are transforming
Is your classroom evolving with technology in education?
Are you using technology to enhance student learning?

3. Change can be scary, but it can bring rewards
Would you like to see your students more engaged?
Would you like to see students take more ownership of their
learning?

4. Mobile Learning
YOU
can make a difference!
Taking advantage of mobile
devices in the classroom can
increase engagement,
collaboration and student
motivation.

5. Mobile learning initiative at Lamar
We have to plan for our initiative’s success by learning from
others that have implemented similar initiatives.
Mobile learning is happening all across the world.
We must move forward to stay relevant and provide our
student’s the skills they need to be successful.

6. Mobile Learning: Innovation we need
“Innovation should be considered a value at university, a characteristic that sets it
apart from the rest. In this sense, innovation with mobile devices requires the
establishment of communications channels and opportunities for thought,
reflection, and collaboration to foster the effective and efficient engagement of
the teaching staff, management board and students.”
The Impact of Digital Mobile Devices in Higher Education, 2015

7. How do we plan for success?
Look to mobile initiatives in global contexts and discover:
What worked?
What could have been done better?
How do we apply these lessons learned?

8. It starts with vision
and leadership.
LA’s iPad debacle
 vision should focus on pedagogy and learning goals
then focus on the technology that will achieve the
vision.
 leaders should investigate best practices for deploying
tech projects
Vision – the idea of what you
want to achieve, the WHY
Leadership – the process to
achieve your vision, the HOW

9. Use a blended
approach
Turning on Mobile Learning in Europe:
o Mobile devices should be used as a compliment to
computers or laptops rather than replacements.
o Most successful projects blended mobile devices
with desktop computers.

10. Better policies for
mobile use in
classrooms
Turning on Mobile Learning in North America:
o Move beyond the stigma attached to mobiles
being a distraction in class.
o Improved guidelines for mobile use in regards to
digital citizenship and security concerns.

11. Robust professional
development and
tech support
A focus on pedagogical
strategies for implementing
mobile learning.
Adoption is an ongoing
process.
o Teacher readiness
o Level of ICT skills
o Placement of pedagogical guides
o Peer tutoring, creation of a Personal Learning
Community
o Availability of technical support for devices and
infrastructure
o Success models

12. Personal Learning Community
Sandy Schuck writes, in Mobile Learning in Higher Education: Mobilizing staff to use technologies
in their teaching, about how PLCs can provide support for educators by bringing people together
with a shared goal and a desire to grow and develop professionally.
Key success factors:
 Used the process of action learning – learning by setting goals and acting to attain them.
 Members should have a common interest and have stakes in investigating mobile learning.
 Development of Mobile Pedagogical Framework which considers the characteristics of
learning with mobile technologies and how those can be used for effective teaching.
 Working in a supportive community enhances experience and outcomes.

13. Monitoring and
Evaluation
Continuous monitoring and
evaluation will ensure
improvement and
sustainability.
o Focus group discussions to attain participant and
faculty opinions and attitudes about the mobile
learning initiative (eSkwela, Phillipines, 2009)
o Surveys and reports that relay feedback

14. What’s so special about
mobile learning?
Imagine learning taking place anywhere, anytime inside or outside of school, in the work
place, out in the field, never-ending.
-ICT in Innovative Schools: Case Studies of Change and Impact, n.d.
It can help us to create
seamless and continuous
educational opportunities to
support lifelong learning in all
contexts.

15. The Bottom Line
“According to UNESCO’s report on mobile learning in North America, it involves
more than merely incorporating new technology into current pedagogical
strategies; it requires an instructional paradigm shift that promises to
fundamentally change the way students learn.”
-- S. Jhoanna Robledo, Mobile Devices for Learning: What you need to know,
2012.

16. I hope to apply these
lessons learned for
success of our mobile
learning initiative
WHY?
At Lamar University, we believe in cultivating sophisticated learners that will thrive in today’s
society and in the future by empowering them with life-long learning skills.
Our shared persistence and
influence will determine the
scope of our success and
ensure sustainability of mobile
learning at Lamar.
Let’s DO this!

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