1. Amnon Dekel The Hebrew University Jerusalem ASPIRE Workshop 2011, Berlin MOBILE COMPUTING & MOBILITY IN EDUCATION

2. WE ARE IN THE MOBILE AGE: 4.6B+ Mobile phones on Earth Mobile is the Main Way that people access the Internet since 2010 (1.3B) Mobile Phones of today are POWERFUL computers! Think STRONG desktop computer from 2002! AMNON DEKEL - ASPIRE WORKSHOP - BERLIN, MAY 23,24 2011 2

3. 2 KEY CONCEPTS: Mobile Computing : Computation and Networking is available when needed in any place Mobility : Being able to do important things in different places, as per a persons needs and capabilities AMNON DEKEL - ASPIRE WORKSHOP - BERLIN, MAY 23,24 2011 3

4. MOBILE COMPUTING ENABLES MOBILITY ---> Mobility in Learning & Learning Mobility MiL: Learning in the field, in the real world, in more relevant contexts LM: Learning where it is needed, by those who need it, when they can do it AMNON DEKEL - ASPIRE WORKSHOP - BERLIN, MAY 23,24 2011 4

5. MOBILITY IN LEARNING: EXAMPLES Mobile Augmented Reality Mobile Data Gathering Mobile Data Mining Mobile Geo-Local Edutainment Mobile Social Networks Design & Development of Mobile Services as Learning Tools AMNON DEKEL - ASPIRE WORKSHOP - BERLIN, MAY 23,24 2011 5

6. LEARNING MOBILITY: EXAMPLES Mobile Phone enables Networking SMS based learning Mobile Web based learning App based learning Machine Learning Context Capture Sensor Data (location, motion, sound) Calendar analysis Mobile Payment based services AMNON DEKEL - ASPIRE WORKSHOP - BERLIN, MAY 23,24 2011 6

7. COST OF OWNERSHIP AND SERVICES ARE DOWN Mobile Technology is being commoditized Cloud computing is lowering costs of development, deployment and operations -------------------------------------------------------- > New services can be ideated, prototyped and tested with a multitude of Learning Partners (K12, college students or people with a need to learn) AMNON DEKEL - ASPIRE WORKSHOP - BERLIN, MAY 23,24 2011 7

8. BENEFIT FOR FUTURE SOCIETY Using todays most ubiquitous computing platform as a learning enabler and education test bed will reap many benefits for tomorrows learners, and therefore, …for Society as a Whole. AMNON DEKEL - ASPIRE WORKSHOP - BERLIN, MAY 23,24 2011 8

9. THANK YOU AMNON DEKEL - ASPIRE WORKSHOP - BERLIN, MAY 23,24 2011 9 Amnon Dekel The Hebrew University Jerusalem amnoid@gmail.com