A JISC FE Resources Project

 John Edmonstone ◦ Cardonald College  Kevan Scade ◦ Anniesland College  Iain Shaw ◦ Langside College  David Hannah ◦ Langside College

1. A mobile learning resources project 2. Creating mobile-friendly resources to be distributed to students’ personal devices 3. Easily replicable and scaleable 4. Distribution of materials - experimenting with Moodle hub as distribution tool between 3 colleges (and as a possible sectoral model)

 Range of curriculum areas selected across 3 partner colleges ◦ Complementary Therapies ◦ Sports ◦ Horticulture and Computing  Materials aimed at reinforcement of practical learning ◦ Short video demonstrations ◦ Key points flashcards ◦ Self assessment quizzes

 Authored to be accessible to a broad range of mobile devices  Surveyed 350+ students across 3 colleges – device ownership/preference …. and is it worthwhile?  Experimented with video formats & quiz authoring tools on a range of test devices/network connections  Settled on MP4 as the widest accessible video format for all kinds of mobile devices  Also currently experimenting with outputting from Camtasia using HTML5

 Used a range of standard/easily affordable software and utilities ◦ Camtasia studio 8 ◦ Respondus – and Moodle Quiz ◦ Moodle mobile theme  Other softwares considered ◦ Softchalk ◦ Captivate ◦ Wirenode

 All courses made accessible to learners through Moodle  Used Moodle networking to share courses between 3 separate instances of Moodle in 3 institutions  Now entering final testing phase for students

 Moodle networking inefficient distribution model  Difficult to find video formats that work equally well on all devices (without need for extra apps…)  Network speeds limit video size

 Students respond well to format  BYOD model works well  Co-operative models for authoring of materials across institutions effective

 John Edmonstone ◦  Kevan Scade ◦  Iain Shaw ◦