Mobile learning three C’s Collaboration: create and generate knowledge and course content Content: accessing and working with course content Community: developing a sense of membership and connection

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Mobile Content: Enabling Personalized Learning John H. Shannon Department of Legal Studies Center For Leadership Development Stillman School of Business

Why Me? Broad experience Mobile devices Learning environments Variety of disciplines Law, IT, International Business, Ethics

What Have I Learned? Our students benefit from learning in ways not previously available New learning opportunities led to new approaches

Should Or Must We? 4.6 billion cell phones 3.3 billion unique cell phone users One-third of students own and use internet services from a handheld device, with another third of students owning or planning to acquire a handheld, internet-capable device in the next twelve months (ECAR, 2009) Mobile is here to stay – students need to be prepared

Let’s Compare 1997 IBM ThinkPad 380 2010 Nokia N900 RAM 64 MB 256 MB Internal Memory 1.08 GB 32 GB Processor Speed 158 mhz 600 mhz Operating System Windows 95 Maemo (Linux) Not looking to replace the laptop as much as to identify new ways of connecting, communicating, and creating content

Mobiles as Learning Tools? Convergence devices Anytime, anywhere access to content Can enhance interaction between and among students and instructors Great for just-in-time training or review of content Facilitate collaboration through synchronous and asynchronous communication

Learning Environments Typically constructivist in nature Engage learners in "sense-making" or reasoning about extensive resource sets

Learning Environments Typically include four components An enabling context, Resources, A set of tools, and Scaffolds (Hannafin, Land, & Oliver, 1999)

Learning Environments Authentic or realistic contexts are provided to motivate learners, and typically take the form of complex, full-scale problems representative of real-world tasks

Mobile and Learning Environments Resources Tools Mobile Apps Podcasts / Video Streams Mobile Web Communication / Collaboration Device feature functionality

Changing The Possibilities Enabling context: can be personalized by students with students Resources can be created by students with students anywhere can be location specific can be device specific can be course content specific can be peer edited and reviewed

Changing The Possibilities Sets of Tools Some are foundational and pervasive, i.e., SMS, MMS Others features (image, audio and video capture quality differentials) are becoming standard Utilizing multiple connection types to peers

Mobile and Learning Environments Extend Change Enabling Context Typically Via Unidirectional Content Student Generated, Applying Course Concepts To Their Contexts Resources Delivered Through Apps, Web Sites, RSS Feeds, Podcasts Student Generated Content And Data Collection Tools Media Players, Browsers, RSS Readers, Specialized Mobile Apps Cameras, GPS, NFC, LBS, Mobile Versions Of Web Apps Scaffolding Email, Lecture, Discussion Board Access SMS, MMS, On-device Wikis, IM

Ideas & Trends Stillman Leadership Development initiative intended to challenge learned student behaviors including a resistance to change Students, using disruptive ideas and technologies, challenged to develop a course enabling them to identify and understand emerging ideas and trends

Ideas & Trends Created a truly independent, self-directed learning environment Introduced the platforms and tools necessary to accomplish goals

Environmental & Public Policy Digital storytelling Incorporates real location integration into development of storytelling Data collection Real-time geotagged data immediately sent to the server for instant analysis

Game Changing Potential Mobile learning content is unique not only because it delivers traditional types of content through traditional platforms BUT BECAUSE

Game Changing Potential The untapped potential of utilizing devices as true learning tools for the collection and creation of content BY students rather than FOR students

Thank You! John H. Shannon John.Shannon@shu.edu ShannonWiki.net Stillman School of Business Seton Hall University John.Shannon@shu.edu ShannonWiki.net

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