Rethinking Mobile Learning andthe Promise of Flying Cars

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"It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus."

Nikola TeslaNew York Times, October 1909.

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Calvin & Hobbes

30 December 1989

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aThis is the only flying car my kids know.

aBut they know mobile.

Educational Technology

?How are we use it

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Credit: Gregor Kennedy - University of Melbourne

Management and Administration of Teaching and Learning

Interactive Learning, Teaching and Assessment

Delivering Electronic Teaching Resources

Research and ScholarlyInquiry

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Credit: Gregor Kennedy - University of Melbourne

Management and Administration of Teaching and Learning

Interactive Learning, Teaching and Assessment

Delivering Electronic Teaching Resources

Research and ScholarlyInquiry

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Credit: Gregor Kennedy - University of Melbourne

Management and Administration of Teaching and Learning

Interactive Learning, Teaching and Assessment

Delivering Electronic Teaching Resources

Research and ScholarlyInquiry

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We need to improve on this!

eLearning

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mLearning

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eDistribution

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Where is my context-aware mobile learning, leveraging geolocation,

social media, peer-to-peer personalization and multisensory

experiences?

Credit Tim Klapdor (@timklapdor): Innovation Technology Officer at Charles Sturt University

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Credit Tim Klapdor (@timklapdor): Innovation Technology Officer at Charles Sturt University

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campus

Credit Tim Klapdor (@timklapdor): Innovation Technology Officer at Charles Sturt University

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campusstudent centered

collaboration

audio/video

assessment

distribution

mobile?

aIs implementation organic?

Hoadley’s

3Laws of Education Technology

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1It’s not the technology. It’s what you do with it.

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2It’s not what the technology makes possible. It’s what technology makes easy.

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3Pay attention to the trendsin learning, not in technology.

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We are held back by our past.

Move past #EduTech flotsam and jetsam

What’s your strategy?

Instructional Designer

Creative Technologist*

Content Strategist

Multimedia Specialist

Instructional Designer

Content Strategist

*Someone who won’t take any guff.

Multimedia Specialist

Creative Technologist*

Mobile has become the students first choice for internet access - NMC Horizons Technologies Report 2011

Learning activities need to be accessed on a variety of devices and platforms.

Learning activities WILL be accessed on a variety of devices and platforms.

Don't convert,

Create! Developing a Progressive Mobile Strategy

- Dave Olsen @dmolsen

Build

Integrated Content

Create new experiences for learners.

There are great opportunities to engage learners with mlearning.

We will need to change how andwhat we teach.

Because we won’t know where, when or how students will want to learn.

• Social• Contextual• Spatial

Pivot, Snack, Bursts

Not tethered to the desktop.

How do I turn in my homework?

Let’s collaborate!

Questions?

Let’s continue the conversation!

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