Tag: mLearning
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Designing for Mobile – Maybe it should be all about objectives
Going Mobile (2010) by Yiibu View more presentations from Bryan Rieger. This is a slideshow on mobile “stuff”, but I think the same could be said about any type of design these days for teaching and learning. Specifically, if you look at the last few slides – 90-93, we have to design for: diversity interruptions…
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Online eBook on mLearning
Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney and Brian Ferry (Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong) have put together an eBook, New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education(2009, 138p. ISBN: 978-1-74128-169-9) that I think many people looking into mLearning might find useful with chapters that examine mobile device use across a range…
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mLearning in Asia
A new paper out of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (Vol 11, No 1 (2010), ISSN: 1492-3831) by John-Harmen Valk, Ahmed T. Rashid, and Laurent Elder finds that mobile devices do indeed have an impact in the developing world by enabling increased access and flexibility that allow students to achieve…
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Should we think of the ubergadget as a sensor instead?
This interesting graphic brings to light a couple of really interesting points. The first is the fact that the key thing to remember about mobile is that you don’t need “everything”, you just need “enough”. That “enough” may be the ability to simply see content from an online source, other times you want to be…
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Cells in the Classroom
Nora Young and Marie Bjerede have an interesting conversation (14min approx) on Spark. It starts with the “fears” that students may use the phone to distract themselves in the classroom. Now, this is a K-12 discussion, but I’ve heard the same thing in higher ed. To that I have a couple things to say. First,…