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

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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

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

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

12. 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

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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
, Lecture, Discussion Board Access
SMS, MMS, On-device Wikis, IM

17. 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

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

19. 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

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

21. 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

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

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