Mobile learning utilizes mobile technologies to enhance learning experiences anywhere and anytime. It is characterized as learner-centered, using gap-filling materials to provide autonomy and personalized learning. Examples of mobile devices enabling mobile learning include the Chumby, iPhone, and Live Scribe pen, which allow internet-aided and on-the-go learning through features like streaming lectures, quick guides, and sharing notes. The growing ubiquity of mobile technologies globally is increasing access to education through various mobile learning programs and opportunities for just-in-time, portable learning.

2. • The idea of mobile learning
• The tools for mobile learning
• The mobile learners
• The global mobile learning landscape
• The implication and potential of mobile
learning

4. “Education is the goal, learning is the means. A
lot of learning can happen without teaching.”
-Nicholas Negroponte,
Chairman Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Media Lab

5. • Mobile Learning = Ubiquitous learning =
Learning on the Go! = “…an exciting form of
learning that uses mobile technologies to
enhance the learning experience.”
• u-Learning : The use of technology (mobile
techonologies, WiFi Internet access, mobile
devices) to learn without reflecting on it.

6. • Characteristics of Mobile Learning (among
others):
– Learner-centered
– Gap-filler materials (not necessarily formal
learning materials)
– Greater learners’ autonomy
– Young(er)
– Learning is personalized and customized

8. • Chumby – Fun + mobile internet device;
streams newsfeeds, weather reports, short
language course
• iPhone – 3-in-1 mobile device : phone, media
player and internet surfing device, represents
a convergence of technology
• Live Scribe – Digital Pen + Digital Notepad +
Laptop/PC dock + Internet = Portable
Thoughts!

9. • Chumby
INTERNET AIDED
Webcam feeds of lectures? LEARNING
Informational videos?
• iPhone
Quick guides? ON-THE-GO, JUST-IN-
TIME LEARNING
Dictionary?
• Live Scribe
Sharing of lecture notes?
PORTABLE THOUGHTS
Sharing of lecture audio?

12. • 21st Century Learners =
Multitaskers Personified
• Access is KING
• Perpetually online
• Shared online social space
• I-want-it-NOW!

13. • 3.3 billion people have mobile phones, the
number will potentially hit 4 billion by 2010

14. • In IBM, employees download more than 4.5
million podcasts to keep up-to-date and get
cutting edge knowledge.
• In Korea, more than 90% of households are
already connected to cheap, broadband
internet
• We are increasingly relying on digital info,
storage and access

15. In Japan In Korea
• Cyber University of Japan
– Free courses offered via
streaming videos, PowerPoint
slides, text info, audio files
• Portable Multimedia Players
– Can broadcast TV programmes
from the Korean Educational
Broadcasting System

16. In Latin America In Africa
• Digital Education
Enhancement Project
(DEEP)
– Illustrated e-books installed in
handheld devices for rural
primary teachers
• Pocket School
– Grammar and spelling lessons
stored in customised MP3
players

17. • The creation of learning environments where
learning is going on 24/7 for anybody seeking it
• Greater need for digital learning skills or
competency
 Searching/Googling/Identifying authority
 Networking/Facebooking/Ninging
• Participation vs Consumption
 Participation does not necessarily translates to
consumption, vice versa (lurkers in the midst?)

18. • Addressing collaborative learning
 Mobile devices are mostly solitary devices – the
connection (to the internet) makes it a gateway to
collaboration
• How to effectively chunk information?
 Bite-size info
 Still relevant and useful
 Digestion rate
• Engaging content
 Bigger audience – what’s the common lowest
denominator?