The UOC is an open university located in Barcelona, Spain that has been operating fully online for 15 years. It has 53,000 students, 500 full-time faculty, and 2,000 part-time faculty. The document discusses developing mobile learning scenarios and personas for potential UOC students based on their needs. Two scenarios are described: a 35-year old accounting student named Xavi who takes a 20-minute commute and needs brief, clear study materials on his mobile device, and a 28-year old lawyer named Imma who takes a 45-minute commute and studies on her mobile for hobby.

1. Learning Technologies

2. UOC: Open University of Catalonia
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University without distances
Fully online University (Undergraduate, Graduate and PhD programs)
Headquarters in Barcelona, Spain
Founded 15 years ago as an online University
53,000 students, 500 full-time faculty, 2,000 part-time faculty

3. Is this our best learning scenario?
Sure?

4. Ask to your students, see new escenarios

5. Ask to your students, see new escenarios

6. Mobile learning scenarios
from a UCD perspective
Goals
Methodology
To define m-learning scenarios in order to
design useful and friendly mobile learning
applications and based on the
requirements of potential users.
· Personas
· Focus group
· Contextual inquiry in commuting context

7. Scenario 1:
20-min
commute
Xavi
Works in accounting
35 years old
Single
Studies Business Administration
Management
Scenario 2:
45-min commute
Imma
Lawyer
28 years old
Studies Humanities
Lives with her partner
Motivation: As a hobby
Motivation: Enhance his career
prospects

8. Scenario 1:
20-min
commute
Xavi
Works in accounting
35 years old
Studies Business Administration
Management
Single
Motivation: Enhance his career
prospects
He need short and clear messages

9. Scenario 1:
20-min
commute
Xavi
Works in accounting
35 years old
Studies Business Administration
Management
Single
Motivation: Enhance his career
prospects
He need study without keyboard

10. Scenario 1:
20-min
commute
Xavi
Works in accounting
35 years old
Studies Business Administration
Management
Single
Motivation: Enhance his career
prospects
He need intuitive and simple interfaces

11. Interoperability
A virtual campus like tangram
Mobile devices
Virtual classroom
book
Audio interfase
Library
Learning
Contents
Facebook
moodle
Google
Clear information

12. MyWay project

13. Automatic generation of multiformat contents

14. CAMPUS project

15. Microblogging

16. Wikispaces

17. LANGblog video

18. Present@ video

19. Google Apps

20. UOCmaps app

21. Guixa app

22. Thank you
malmirall@uoc.edu
http://learningtechnologies.uoc.edu