1. Go Mobile!
Advantages, Issues, and Examples of Mobile Technologies in Distance Education
Marguerite Koole
Instructional Media Analyst & Program Administrator (EdD)
Athabasca University

2. Go Mobile Introductions Your experience with mobile learning
Go mobile: first steps
Advantages & Challenges
Theory
Development recommendations
Evaluating mobile sites
MobiGlam
Conclusions
References & Resources

3. Introductions
Your expertise
Your interest in mobile learning

4. Demographics Who uses SMS regularly? Who has never used SMS?
Who has used a cell phone to check:
the weather?
movie listings?
browse the Internet?
Who is currently involved with delivering learning materials by mobile?

5. First Steps . . . Setting the baseline
Familiarize yourself with your device
Navigation
Input/output
Send me an SMS
Visit this website on your device:
If you are on a computer:

6. Query What are some potential uses of mobile devices in learning?
Advantages?
Challenges?
What kinds of systems & tools can be used for m-Learning?

7. Theory: The FRAME Model
(DL) Usability - How the learner interacts with the device
(L) Mental, emotional & physiological characteristics
(D) Technical
Characteristics
Specifications:
physical, electronic
(LS) Constructivism - How learner interacts with others within his/her socio-cultural
environment
(DS) Information transfer - How data & information is transferred between people & systems
Context: The learning system
rests within a context of data or information waiting to be transformed into meaning
(S) Social & cultural Characteristics

8. Theory
DLS: Mobile Learning

9. Practical Issues Limitations Transparency Chunking Flexibility
Information access
Cognitive & social

10. Evaluate Mobile Sites
Using the chart provided, access these mobile sites with a mobile device & evaluate the experience.

11. Mobile Moodle MobiGlam Moodle site Register your device Navigation
Video:
Moodle site
Register your device
Video:
Navigation
Video:
Administration interface
Emulator

12. Conclusion
Query: additional comments?

13. References & Resources
Ally, M. (2005). Multimedia information design for mobile devices. In M. Pagani (Ed.), Encyclopedia of multimedia technology and networking. (). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Inc.
Elsayed Meawad, F., & G. Stubbs. (2007). A service oriented approach towards large scale deployment of mobile learning. Unpublished manuscript.
Koole, M. (2006). The framework for the rational analysis of mobile education (frame) model: An evaluation of mobile devices for distance education. Unpublished Athabasca University, Athabasca.
Koole, M. (2009). Chapter 2: A model for framing mobile learning. In M. Ally (Ed.), Mobile learning: Transforming the delivery of education and training (1st ed., pp ). Edmonton, Alberta: AU Press. (
Sharples, M. (2005). Towards a theory of mobile learning. Retrieved August 3, 2007, from

14. More Resources MOMO: Mobile Moodle http://www.mobilemoodle.org/momo18/
SMS Gateway
AU Digital Reading Room (Mobile)
AU Digital Library AU Mobile ESL Project
AU School of Computing Mobile Learning Project
mLearning Consortium (McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd.)