The document discusses innovations in mobile learning from an international perspective, including how mobile technologies can support learning across different contexts such as in the classroom, field trips, and lifelong learning. It provides examples of innovative mobile learning projects from around the world that utilize technologies like smartphones, tablets, and sensors to enhance learning in both formal and informal settings and support personalized, collaborative, and contextualized learning experiences.
Our mobile learning research and development work at The Open University has built expertise around pedagogical innovation in tandem with advancements in technology. Combining teacher-led, developer-led and learner-led innovation, we aim to develop new pedagogies that recognize the specific characteristics of design and support for mobile and contextual learning.
“Unlimited Learning” Event for National Summer Learning Day 2009videoreg
LANDOVER HILLS, MD -- New Hope Academy a parent-founded international pre-K to 12th grade school in Landover Hills is hosted an “Unlimited Learning” event as a part of National Summer Learning Day 2009 and a kick off to the schools 20th Anniversary. On July 9th the school hosted a FREE PUBLIC event featuring panelist talking about the “unlimited learning” opportunities summer learning can provide students. Panelist covered topics related to science, technology, engineering, mathematics, reading, languages and culture, virtual distance learning and support resources for parents.
“If kids aren’t learning over the summer, they fall behind academically,” says Joy Morrow, Principal, New Hope Academy. “Quality summer learning programs help kids get ahead while they explore new talents and discover the joy of learning something new. Students need extra time for learning, and quality summer programs offer that.”
During the week of July 6, cities around the country will hold events to raise awareness of the importance of high-quality summer learning opportunities in the lives of youth and their families. The week’s activities will culminate with Summer Learning Day on July 9, an annual national event organized by the National Center for Summer Learning to focus attention on how quality summer learning programs help close the achievement gap and promote healthy development.
In Landover Hills, Maryland, “Unlimited Learning” will provide parents an opportunity to speak with various leaders from around the area regarding the things they can do to provide their child a rich summer learning experience to prevent Summer Learning Day is sponsored by the National Center for Summer Learning at The Johns Hopkins University. (www.summerlearning.org)
This year, New Hope Academy joins summer learning advocates from across the country urging local school districts to spend some of the $100 billion for education in President Obama’s economic reinvestment and recovery package on summer learning programs. “The president has approved an unprecedented investment in education,” said Ron Fairchild, executive director of the National Center for Summer Learning. “Summer learning programs are a proven educational innovation that will close the achievement gap. This is a historic opportunity to use new public dollars for summer learning programs and help thousands more children achieve their full potential.”
Research shows that all children experience learning loss when they don’t engage in educational activities during the summer. Here are simple, low-cost things parents can do to make sure their children are active and engaged this summer:
SUMMER LEARNING TIPS:
HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF SUMMER
The National Center for Summer Learning encourages parents to make the most of children's summer break with the following suggestions:
• Locate a summer program that fits your budget. Programs offered by schools, recreation centers, universities, and community-based organizations often have an educational or enrichment focus.
• The library is a great, free resource. Check out books that interest your child. Participate in free library summer programs and make time to read every day.
• Take free or low-cost educational trips to parks, museums, zoos and nature centers.
• If you are taking a day trip by car, choose a place with an educational theme. Camping is also is low-cost way to get outside and learn about nature.
• Practice math daily: Measure items around the house or yard. Track daily temperatures. Add and subtract at the grocery store. Learn fractions while cooking.
• Play outside. Limit TV and video games. Intense physical activity and exercise contribute to healthy development.
• Do a community service project. Teach your child how to volunteer in your community and show compassion to others.
• Keep a schedule. Continue daily routines duri
Our mobile learning research and development work at The Open University has built expertise around pedagogical innovation in tandem with advancements in technology. Combining teacher-led, developer-led and learner-led innovation, we aim to develop new pedagogies that recognize the specific characteristics of design and support for mobile and contextual learning.
“Unlimited Learning” Event for National Summer Learning Day 2009videoreg
LANDOVER HILLS, MD -- New Hope Academy a parent-founded international pre-K to 12th grade school in Landover Hills is hosted an “Unlimited Learning” event as a part of National Summer Learning Day 2009 and a kick off to the schools 20th Anniversary. On July 9th the school hosted a FREE PUBLIC event featuring panelist talking about the “unlimited learning” opportunities summer learning can provide students. Panelist covered topics related to science, technology, engineering, mathematics, reading, languages and culture, virtual distance learning and support resources for parents.
“If kids aren’t learning over the summer, they fall behind academically,” says Joy Morrow, Principal, New Hope Academy. “Quality summer learning programs help kids get ahead while they explore new talents and discover the joy of learning something new. Students need extra time for learning, and quality summer programs offer that.”
During the week of July 6, cities around the country will hold events to raise awareness of the importance of high-quality summer learning opportunities in the lives of youth and their families. The week’s activities will culminate with Summer Learning Day on July 9, an annual national event organized by the National Center for Summer Learning to focus attention on how quality summer learning programs help close the achievement gap and promote healthy development.
In Landover Hills, Maryland, “Unlimited Learning” will provide parents an opportunity to speak with various leaders from around the area regarding the things they can do to provide their child a rich summer learning experience to prevent Summer Learning Day is sponsored by the National Center for Summer Learning at The Johns Hopkins University. (www.summerlearning.org)
This year, New Hope Academy joins summer learning advocates from across the country urging local school districts to spend some of the $100 billion for education in President Obama’s economic reinvestment and recovery package on summer learning programs. “The president has approved an unprecedented investment in education,” said Ron Fairchild, executive director of the National Center for Summer Learning. “Summer learning programs are a proven educational innovation that will close the achievement gap. This is a historic opportunity to use new public dollars for summer learning programs and help thousands more children achieve their full potential.”
Research shows that all children experience learning loss when they don’t engage in educational activities during the summer. Here are simple, low-cost things parents can do to make sure their children are active and engaged this summer:
SUMMER LEARNING TIPS:
HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF SUMMER
The National Center for Summer Learning encourages parents to make the most of children's summer break with the following suggestions:
• Locate a summer program that fits your budget. Programs offered by schools, recreation centers, universities, and community-based organizations often have an educational or enrichment focus.
• The library is a great, free resource. Check out books that interest your child. Participate in free library summer programs and make time to read every day.
• Take free or low-cost educational trips to parks, museums, zoos and nature centers.
• If you are taking a day trip by car, choose a place with an educational theme. Camping is also is low-cost way to get outside and learn about nature.
• Practice math daily: Measure items around the house or yard. Track daily temperatures. Add and subtract at the grocery store. Learn fractions while cooking.
• Play outside. Limit TV and video games. Intense physical activity and exercise contribute to healthy development.
• Do a community service project. Teach your child how to volunteer in your community and show compassion to others.
• Keep a schedule. Continue daily routines duri
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1. Innovation in Mobile Learning:
An International Perspective
Mike Sharples
Institute of Educational
Technology
The Open University, UK
2. Open University UK
• Largest University in the UK
• 260,000 students
• Modern distance learning
• Open access
– Open to all people Milton Keynes
– Free access to learning materials online
– 20 million downloads from iTunesU
3. Mobile learning
“Any sort of learning that happens when
the learner is not at a fixed, predetermined
location, or learning that happens when the
learner takes advantage of the learning
opportunities offered by mobile
technologies”
Wikipedia. "Guidelines for learning/teaching/tutoring in a mobile environment". MOBIlearn. October 2003. pp. 6.
10. First phase of mobile learning
Handheld in classrooms
• Lecture response systems
– since 1947
• Handheld computers in
classrooms
– Since 1980s
• E-books
– since 1990
• Data logging
Focus on handheld technology for
formal education and training
11. Second phase
Learning across contexts
• Personal learning organisers
• Field trips
• Museum visits
• Bite sized learning
• Professional updating
• MOBIlearn and M-Learning
European projects
Focus on the mobile learner
12. Third phase
Ambient learning
• Augmented reality
learning
• Learning enhanced
physical spaces
Focus on a learning-enabled world
14. From basic technology...
SMS text
game for You are in the
peer
drop-in centre.
There are
boxes of
condoms and
education
posters for fly-
posting. What
do you do?
in India
17. Innovative international m-learning projects
MyArtSpace
Mobilearn exploratory
international learning with
context-aware mobile phones
mLearning in UK museums
platform
L-Mo adaptive
vocabulary
learning in
Japan
18. MOBIlearn (www.mobilearn.org)
2002-2004
• Funded by the European
Commission
• Aim: to develop services
for mobile learning outside
the classroom
• Scenarios
– Art gallery
– First aid in workplace
– Work-based MBA course
19. Large scale project
• 24 partner organizations
• €7.4 million funding ($10.8 million)
• Open web service-based system
• Content management
• Context awareness
• Collaboration
• Mobile multimedia
• Adaptive interface
OMAF systems architecture for MOBIlearn
20. Context
In a context Creating a context
“that which “that which
surrounds us” weaves
together”
Source: Cole, M. (1996). Cultural psychology: A once and future discipline.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
21. Context as a „shell‟ that surrounds the
human user of technology
Context created by the constructive
interaction between people and
technology
Source: Dourish, P. (2004) What we talk about when we talk about context. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 8 (1): 19-30.
22. Learning in context
Data
filtering and
integration
Data
filtering and
integration
Computer User
Context
24. CAGE system
• Navigation in a conceptual
space through physical
movement
• Location-based content
delivery
• Ultrasound tracking system
• Context awareness:
– which painting?
– how long?
– been there before?
26. MyArtSpace
• Aim: to connect learning in
museums and classrooms
• Enhance museums as sites for
authentic inquiry learning
• Learners as investigators
• Service on mobile phones and
website for inquiry-led museum
learning
27. Prepare inquiry in the
classroom MyArtSpace
Create and collect in the
museum
View and share in the
classroom
Present a personal
perspective
28.
29. Evaluation
• Over 100 school visits
• by 3000 children in three museums
• Thousands of images and sounds created by
children in the museums and sent to personal
websites
• Year-long evaluation from initial design to
final deployment
• Observations, interviews, focus groups,
surveys
30. Summary of findings
• The technology worked
– Photos, information on exhibits, notes, automatic
sending to website
• Students spent longer (90 mins compared to 20
mins)
• Supported inquiry learning
• Encouraged children to make active choices
• Connected school and museum
• Need for more teacher preparation
• Managing the amount of collected material back
in the classroom
32. Djanogly City Academy “My favourite rich task is
„The Seasons‟ because you
get to study music, drama
First „mobile learning school‟ and dance every day for a
whole term and they are
• Flexibility and mobility in my favourite lessons”
Christopher Berry Year 9
the classroom and outside
• Rich task curriculum
– E.g. Exploring science and
ethics
• Breaking down the
separate zones of teacher
and pupil
• Open (filtered) access to
the Web
33.
34. Smartphones for language learning
Sharp Labs Europe
University of Nottingham
Tokushima University, Japan
35. Incidental second language learning
E-book Selected
Personal Game Mobile
words words
vocabulary game
Read
story for Rehearse
vocabulary Practise
vocabulary
sentence
list
construction
Missing
words
40. Research question
Are there differences in the learning of
English vocabulary through reading
novels, depending on the mode of mobile
interaction?
41. Three modes of interaction
• Paper book
Paper book
• e-book reader with English
dictionary
• „ELMO‟: e-book reader with
enhanced software, including E-book
adaptive user modelling and
additional interactivity
Elmo
adaptive system
42. Participants
• 39 students (24 female, 15 male) aged 15-
17 at a Japanese high school
• 3 comparison groups balanced in terms
of English vocabulary and gender
43. Conclusions
• The study was carefully set up and rigorously
conducted
• It didn‟t show any particular technology to be
effective in enhancing incidental learning of
English vocabulary
• The technology wasn‟t engaging
• The books were too difficult and boring
• Since the work was not assessed there was
no external motivation
• Japanese teenagers have little or no free
time in the evenings
44. Elmo Mk3 for Android device
Product launch by Sharp in Autumn 2011
45. Toponimo– Tommy Sweeney
Context and social language learning
• See nearby locations
(from Google maps
API)
• Click on a location
46. • Read words linked to
the location, with
definitions
• Add new words
47. • Change the definition
and pronunciation
• Add photo of the
word in context
48. • Share words,
definitions, photos,
pronunciations
• Rate words for
relevancy
49. Personal Inquiry
• Three year project
• University of Nottingham/ Open University
• Aim:
– To help children to engage in effective science
inquiries
50. How can we help children to think,
talk and act like good scientists?
51.
52. Myself My Environment My Community
Personally meaningful investigations
Food packaging Urban heat islands
and decay
Fitness and heartrate
Healthy eating Effect of noise
pollution on birds Micro-climates
55. Inquiry Learning Cycle
Based on:
- Previous research
on representing the
inquiry process
- UK national
curriculum
language and
process for inquiry
learning
- Participatory design
with science
teachers
63. International collaboration in mobile
learning
University of Twente, University of Oslo, Joseph
Fourier University, University of Duisburg-
Essen, University of Bergen, Fraunhofer
IAIS, University of Cyprus, University of Tartu, De
Praktijk, Stichting Technasium, ENOVATE, Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education
Växjö University, Sweden, Stanford
University, Intel Research, Pasco,
National Geographic Society
Open University, University of
Nottingham, ScienceScope, UK research
programme in Technology Enhanced Learning