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Zoraini Wati AbasInstitute of Quality, Research &

Innovation/Faculty of Education and Languages

Open University MalaysiaKuala Lumpur

Fostering Learning Fostering Learning in a Mobile Worldin a Mobile World

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Source: Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, 2009http://www.skmm.gov.my/facts_figures/stats/index.asp

Mobile Scenario in Malaysia

The driving forces in today’s world of mobile learning

Generation Y Learners

• Video games• PC• Email• CDs• Individualist

Generation Generation X X 1965-801965-80

• Web• Cell phone• IM• MP3s• Online

communities

Net GenNet Gen(Digital Natives/(Digital Natives/Millennials)Millennials)1981-991981-99 (10-28 yrs old)(10-28 yrs old)

Baby Baby BoomersBoomers1946-641946-64

TV generation

Typewriters Telephone Memos Family focus

Current Technology-based Scenario

New e-Learning OERs Web 2.0 Social networking

Portability/Mobility Smaller devices Increasingly

affordable Broadband Wireless

ubiquitous

Prediction

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The architects of education 2.0 predict that traditional universities

that cling to the string-quartet model will find themselves on the wrong side of history, alongside newspaper chains and record

stores.

"If universities can't find the will to innovate and adapt to changes in

the world around them, universities will be irrelevant by 2020.”

David Wiley, Brigham Young UniversityFounder of the Open High School of Utah

Characteristics of E-learningAnalog or Digital

Tethered or Mobile

Isolated or Connected

Generic or Personal

Consumption or Creating

Closed or Open

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E-learning 2.0 Analog or Digital

Tethered or Mobile

Isolated or Connected

Generic or Personal

Consumption or Creating

Closed or Open

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After a decade of mad human scrambling to attempt to understand

e-learning and blended learning, we now are confronted with mobile or m-

learning, and ubiquitous or u-learning.

Curtis Bonk (2009)

http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/

iTunes U

Samples of Podcasts from Yale

Psychology

Physics

Different kind of universities

Peer2Peer University http://www.p2pu.org/$70,000 seed grant from the Hewlett Foundation to launch its first 10 pilot courses. Opened for enrolment on 9-09-09

http://www.uopeople.org/

“The University of the People is an idea whose time has come".Dr. Russell S. Winer

Computer and Business Programs

Transform Learning from Push to Pull

Adapted from:Morrison(2003). E-Learning strategies: How to get implementation and delivery right the first time. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley

Put learning into the hands of learners

Change the way we assess learning

http://twitter.com/zoraini

Mobile learning works best when we . . .

Push-Pull Model of Blended Learning

Learners

Institution

The advantages and benefits?If you have a team filled with the younger generation (Gen Y), m-learning is likely to be welcomed with open arms . . . . we are used to getting information via cell phones and iPods, and are accustomed to accessing what we need when we need it. With its real time format and flexibility, m-learning is just too good to be true for us!

Mobile learning at OUM

Milestones

Analysis of Learner Readiness for Mobile Learning at OUM

Gender

<=25 26-30 31-35 36-40 =>410

16.8614.18 13.51

28.3627.09

Age group

44 percent 42.5 percent

Do you have a mobile phone?

Can you imagine yourself as the learner in the above scenario?

Are OUM learners ready for mobile learning?

N = 2,837 (end 2008)

“Can you imagine yourself as the learner in the above scenario?”

I would like to receive the following forms of learning content through my mobile device:

What type of courses would you like to receive through m-learning?

OUM mobile learninghttp://mlearn.oum.edu.my/index_m.htm

Mobile Learning Content Creation Worskhop (SMS content) 25 April 2009

Mobile learning – OUMH1103 (sms & podcasts) Forum, content, Tips,

Motivation, Course Management via SMS

SMSes received by OUMH1103 1863 learners & 74 tutors

SMSes planned for the May semester in advance were sent to tutors

Mobile learning – OUMH1103 (sms & podcasts) 2-3 SMS per week Sent around 8pm on week

days Learners reminded (through

tutors, & facebook) to update their mobile Update their user profile in

myLMS Call IQRI Email mlearn@oum.edu.my Pass mobile number to tutors

Latest Info Mobile learning –

OUMH1103 (sms & podcasts) Podcasts avaliable at

http://mlearn.oum.edu.my Facebook community

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/pages/Kuala-Lumpur-Malaysia/OUM-Mobile-Learning

http://twitter.com/oumh1103 for “archive” of SMS

Categories of SMS and Examples

Total = 31 SMS

Formative Evaluation (mid May 2009 semester)

51 learners 12 tutors 6 learning centres

Generally receptive Feelings about SMS Actions upon

receiving SMS Timing and frequency Usefulness of the SMS

Abas, Lim & Woo (2009). Mobile learning initiative through SMS: A formative evaluation, ASEAN J. Open Distance Learning, 1(1)

Formative Evaluation (mid May 2009 semester)

Source: Abas, Z.W., Lim, T. & Woo. T.K. (2009). Mobile learning initiative through SMS: A formative evaluation, ASEAN J. Open Distance Learning, 1(1), 49-58.

Comments in Facebook

Summative Evaluation - 712 learners(end May 2009 semester)

26.635.5

49.4 47.7

Uselfulness Motivation

Disagree & StronglyDisagree

Srongly Agree

Learners’ Perception of Usefulness and Motivation

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Summative Evaluation - 712 learners(end May 2009 semester)

12.3 15.3 14.4 25.5

52.449.552.544.2

3.54.94.66.3

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Content

Motiva

Course M

Disagree & StronglyDisagreeAgree

Strongly Agree

Perceived Effectiveness of the Various SMS Categories

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From a student’s email . . .

You guys made a great difference by alerting we distance learners

with questions & statements, keeping up all along the ODL

module & tutorials, encouraging our learning. Our “lecturer,” helped and

encouraged us to respond to the messages you guys posted, by

creating a specific section in the forum for discussions of SMS’s.

I strongly believe that this mode of on the move, two-way

communicative learning methodology will be very beneficial and help to complement, the self-learning, the face to face tutorial

and on-line learning.

Email received on 3 Aug 2009

Mobile learning at OUM is like having a/an:

alarm clock that tells the learner when to studycoach who tells the learner what to study, motivate, engage and keep the learner on trackpersonal assistant to remind the learner of important dates and things to do

Tutor in the pocket

Mobile Learning at

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Thank You

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