Rationale: Mobile learning is learning that happens when the learner takes advantage of the learning opportunities offered by mobile technologies. The use of wireless, mobile, portable, and handheld devices is gradually increasing and diversifying across every sector of education. M-learning can be used as a tool to increase student’s engagement in learning as well as developing them into independent learners. “Whether we like it or not, whether we are ready for it or not, Mobile learning represents the next step in a long tradition of technology-mediated learning” (Ellen D. Wagner 2005). The challenge for educators and designers, then, is one of understanding and exploring how best we might use these resources to support learning. This blog focuses on providingd resources for educator to do just that.
Presenters:
- Dr. Alisa Cooper teaches freshman composition courses at Glendale Community College. She is an avid technology user and teaches online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses using many different Web 2.0 technologies. Alisa is QM trained and currently teaches two QM designed and one certified online courses. She continues to research and learn about teaching with technology and presents several workshops throughout the year for the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI). Alisa’s interest in technology drove her to complete her doctorate in Instructional Technology and Distance Education from Nova Southeastern University in 2005. You can see some of Alisa’s workshops on her wiki: Coop’s Word: Technology Use In & Out of the Classroom – http://drcoop.pbworks.com/ and read her blog about teaching in Maricopa at http://maricopatech.blogspot.com/ Follow her on twitter @soul4real
- Dr. Lisa Young is the instructional design/educational technology faculty at Scottsdale Community College. She works with faculty to assist them in the development and delivery of their hybrid, online, and traditional classroom-based courses. She shares information on instructional design strategies, delivery and facilitation techniques, and instructional technologies. She has been a faculty member in the Maricopa Community Colleges since 1993, serving as program director and faculty for water resources technologies, hydrologic studies, and occupational safety and health technology programs. An avid early adopter of technology, she began teaching online in 1997. She has earned a B.S. in Geography with an environmental emphasis, a M.Ed. in Learning and Instructional Technology from Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. in Instructional Design for Online Learning from Capella University. Her dissertation was a research study identifying the instructional uses of podcasting and the instructional design processes used in the creation of podcasts and their incorporation into courses. You can follow what Lisa is up to in terms of instructional design and her reviews of educational apps on her blog at: http://lcbyoung-scc.squarespace.com/ Follow her on twitter @lcbyoung
Workshop Information
Workshop Title: Mobile Learning
Sponsor: MCLI
Date:
- March 10, 2010 – 12:00-3:00pm at Paradise Valley Community College, E140
- April 7, 2010 – 1:00-4:00pm at Phoenix College, B121
Type of Event: 3 hour hands on technology Learnshop.
Instructional Goal: This workshop will help participants discover how best to use mobile devices, and which devices are most popular and the best devices to use in mobile learning. Workshop participants will also learn how to create course content for mobile delivery and access, and how to actively engage students in course content using mobile devices.
Target Audience: All MCCD faculty.
Presenter(s): Dr. Alisa Cooper teaches freshman composition courses at Glendale Community College. She is an avid technology user and teaches online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses using many different Web 2.0 technologies. Alisa is QM trained and currently teaches two QM designed and one certified online courses. She continues to research and learn about teaching with technology and presents several workshops throughout the year for the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI). Alisa’s interest in technology drove her to complete her doctorate in Instructional Technology and Distance Education from Nova Southeastern University in 2005. You can see some of Alisa’s workshops on her wiki: Coop’s Word: Technology Use In & Out of the Classroom – http://drcoop.pbworks.com/
| 9. Learning Objectives | 10. Activities to Meet the Objectives | 11. Assessment |
| Identify current mobile devices and how best to use them in mobile learning | Participants for research popular mobile devices for price, features and compatibility based on a rubric | The objective is met when participants as a group successfully complete an online matrix for mobile devices |
| Explore how to create course content for mobile delivery | Participants will create a WordPress blog and set it up for mobile access and explore different tools for content delivery that can be added to the blog. | The objective is met if the participants successfully create a blog, add appropriate plugins and content for mobile access and download/install apps to their own mobile devices. |
| Explore how to access course content by finding, installing and using different apps on mobile device | Participants will search, download and install apps for their mobile devices that provide access to course content. | The objective is met if the participants successfully find and install new apps to their mobile devices and access their course content |
| Actively engage students in course content using mobile devices | Participants will participate in activities using their own mobile devices (cell phones and or iPod Touch). Activities include PollEverywhere, Twitter, TextMarks, Animoto, Posterous. | The objective is met if participants successfully participate in the activities using their own mobile device. |
Details of the Event
Environment: This learnshop will be conducted in a computer-lab classroom, so that each participant has a computer for hands-on access to the materials and the web. Participants will also have access to wifi for their mobile devices.
Expected number of participants: The maximum number of participants will be constrained by the number of seats in the classroom (35).
Time/Clock Hours: 3 hours
Agenda:
- Introduction to Mobile Learning (15 min)
- Introduction to the current research on mobile learning and sharing of a list of resources available on the workshop wiki
- Mobile Learning Showcase (15 min)
- Overview of a course designed for mobile access using WordPress MU, iTunes and Blip.tv.
- Current Mobile Devices and how best to use them (30min)
- Participants all choose different mobile devices to research. They will fill in a matrix online to share the cost, features, pros/cons for mobile learning for each device. Discussion about which devices are most appropriate follows.
- Creating course content for mobile delivery (40 min)
- Participants will set up WordPress blogs to play in. Self hosted blogs are necessary, so blogs will only be temporary. They will install appropriate plugins needed to make the blog mobile accessible, and they will experiment will uploading different kinds of content to the blog: video, audio, text, quizzes, forms.
- Accessing course content Using Apps (40 min)
- Participants will search, download and install apps for their smart phones or iPod Touches. They will explore how each app provides access to different types of course content. Apps include ereaders, CMS access, homework trackers, Web 2.0 apps for Facebook, Twitter, Animoto, UstreamTV, YouTube, Google, Skype, Evernote and various blogs.
- Engaging students in course content (40 min)
- Participants will participate in activities using their own mobile devices (cell phones and or iPod Touch). Tools include PollEverywhere, Twitter, TextMarks, Animoto, Posterous. Activities include quizzing, blogging, discussion, polls, text updates and notetaking.
