Slide title In CAPITALS 50 pt Slide subtitle 32 pt The Development of Courseware for Smartphones Judy Nix Ericsson Education Ireland

Slide title In CAPITALS 50 pt Slide subtitle 32 pt Based on Research for the EU Leonardo Funded Project Mobile Learning: the Next Generation of Learning FernuniversitatCorvinus University of Budapest Distance Education

Slide title In CAPITALS 50 pt Slide subtitle 32 pt Mobile learning is the provision of education and training on hand held devices: PDAs, smartphones, mobiles and MP3 players

Top right corner for field-mark, customer or partner logotypes. See Best practice for example. Slide title 40 pt Slide subtitle 24 pt Text 24 pt Bullets level pt Strictly Confidential4 Why develop courseware for mobile devices?  664.5m mobiles phones shipped in 2004  50% of all employees in the developed world spend half their time outside the office  Nearly all higher level education students in Europe use mobile phones in their everyday lives  It is predicted that multi-purpose handheld devices will outsell laptop and desktop computers this year  3G networks will provide the infrastructure through its “always on” environment

Top right corner for field-mark, customer or partner logotypes. See Best practice for example. Slide title 40 pt Slide subtitle 24 pt Text 24 pt Bullets level pt Strictly Confidential5 The Approach  To mirror existing eLearning development methods by employing the same tools and technologies to ultimately facilitate adaptability.

Top right corner for field-mark, customer or partner logotypes. See Best practice for example. Slide title 40 pt Slide subtitle 24 pt Text 24 pt Bullets level pt Strictly Confidential6 How? – Development Tools  Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Version 1.0 -Site definition Wizard -Validator -Previewing facility

Top right corner for field-mark, customer or partner logotypes. See Best practice for example. Slide title 40 pt Slide subtitle 24 pt Text 24 pt Bullets level pt Strictly Confidential7 Development Tools  Opera Browser Supports XHTML -Supports Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) -Describes what the content looks like

Top right corner for field-mark, customer or partner logotypes. See Best practice for example. Slide title 40 pt Slide subtitle 24 pt Text 24 pt Bullets level pt Strictly Confidential8 Development Tools  Adobe Photoshop 5.5 -Images can be save in GIF -Transparent areas can be included -Web colour palette can be specified.

Top right corner for field-mark, customer or partner logotypes. See Best practice for example. Slide title 40 pt Slide subtitle 24 pt Text 24 pt Bullets level pt Strictly Confidential9 Technologies  The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) 1.0 Transitional

Top right corner for field-mark, customer or partner logotypes. See Best practice for example. Slide title 40 pt Slide subtitle 24 pt Text 24 pt Bullets level pt Strictly Confidential10 Technologies  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Levels 1 & 2 - CSS enables authors to separate presentation type from document content -Style rules define presentation & formatting can be contained in a single files. -Facilites the implementation of well structured, maintainable xhtml documents.

Top right corner for field-mark, customer or partner logotypes. See Best practice for example. Slide title 40 pt Slide subtitle 24 pt Text 24 pt Bullets level pt Strictly Confidential11 Technologies  Java Script - a scripting language for creating simple code to control the behaviour of web document objects  Document Object Model (DOM) - the ability to change the appearance of a web page dynamically

Top right corner for field-mark, customer or partner logotypes. See Best practice for example. Slide title 40 pt Slide subtitle 24 pt Text 24 pt Bullets level pt Strictly Confidential12 Design & Development  Web Based Design  A user interface screen was created with a column container that holds all the content  The container holds a table element and the course material iframe.  The user-interface page was designed to behave dynamically  At any one time, one specific icon or heading is displayed at each location.

Top right corner for field-mark, customer or partner logotypes. See Best practice for example. Slide title 40 pt Slide subtitle 24 pt Text 24 pt Bullets level pt Strictly Confidential13 Design & Development Challenge of how to present diagrams in a concise, uncluttered way. Key colour codes were employed in some areas A scaled down, simplified image-map version with different clickable areas was used to provide links to separate full size sub section view of the original graphic.

Top right corner for field-mark, customer or partner logotypes. See Best practice for example. Slide title 40 pt Slide subtitle 24 pt Text 24 pt Bullets level pt Strictly Confidential14 Student Evaluation post-secondary education. n%n%n%n%n% 1.Occupat ion ManagerNon-Technical EmployeeTechnical EmployeeTeacher/TrainerOther Age Group 24 or younger Over GenderMaleFemale Level of Education High school MatriculationOne to three years post secondaryFour or more years of post-secondary Mobile Device Ownershi p Mobile PhonePDABoth

Top right corner for field-mark, customer or partner logotypes. See Best practice for example. Slide title 40 pt Slide subtitle 24 pt Text 24 pt Bullets level pt Strictly Confidential15 Student Evaluation  78% found the equipment easy to use.  56% agreed that the experience was fun,  45% agreed that m-learning increases the quality of e- learning.  50% agreed that learning objectives can be met by m- learning.

Top right corner for field-mark, customer or partner logotypes. See Best practice for example. Slide title 40 pt Slide subtitle 24 pt Text 24 pt Bullets level pt Strictly Confidential16 Recommendations  Research is needed to ensure a fun experience for everyone within mLearning  Design and graphics are very important  Communication functionality and how it can be built into the overall package  Feedback and assessment needs to be developed further

Top right corner for field-mark, customer or partner logotypes. See Best practice for example. Slide title 40 pt Slide subtitle 24 pt Text 24 pt Bullets level pt Strictly Confidential17 Conclusion  Through the use of web based technologies, courses can be developed and adapted for mobile devices  3G with its on all the time evironment will improve the background environment  More research is need  Students have the devices – lets give them something to learn on them!!

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