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Kev Harland

Exploring Students' Mobile Learning Practices in Higher Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | E... - 1 views

  • mobile technologies afford new opportunities for learning, but their use does not guarantee that effective learning will take place
  • College students use their mobile devices mostly for self-directed informal learning rather than in the formal academic context, however, which makes it challenging to get an accurate picture of academic use.
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    The popularity of mobile technologies among college students is increasing dramatically. Results from the ECAR research study on students suggest that many undergraduate students bring their own digital devices to college, favoring small and portable ones such as smartphones and tablets. 2 Although students still rate laptops (85 percent) as the most important devices to their academic success, the importance of mobile devices such as tablets (45 percent), smartphones (37 percent), and e-book readers (31 percent) is noticeably on the rise. Increasingly, students say they want the ability to access academic resources on their mobile devices.3 In fact, 67 percent of students' smartphones and tablets are reportedly being used for academic purposes, a rate that has nearly doubled in just one year.4
Kev Harland

Is Mobile Learning Relevant in Developing Countries? - 1 views

  • foreign intervention is less desirable than autonomous growth and innovation
  • M-Pesa (“mobile money” in Swahili) is a Kenyan mobile phone service which allows people to pay or transfer money to any other mobile phone user. It came about to meet the needs of a population poorly served by traditional banking services, before spreading throughout Africa, and is now among the most advanced mobile payment systems in the world. It’s different from your typical money transfer, because it doesn’t rely on bank accounts
  • Today, over 50% of adult Kenyans use the service to transfer money and pay for bills and even shopping
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  • At first, the internet made the world more global; now, the internet itself is becoming more local. The various fora and message boards serve as increasingly rich archives of dialogues – where a problem has been solved once, that solution can be sought by anyone
  • Anyone with access to Google can leverage the collective wisdom of the masses
  • he advent of cloud computing and crowd-sourcing means that individuals can now create and distribute their own educational content with little to no overhead
  • Udemy is one such platform, enabling educational content to be sourced from individuals rather than publishing houses (though a number of publishers do use the platform). Anyone can upload a lesson, and anyone can take a lesson
  • These platforms, which empower the individual, are significant because they enable highly local, highly specific learning content
  • While publishing houses need to generalise their content and target the largest audience, an individual is under no such imperative.
  • it becomes more and more feasible for anyone, anywhere to share their knowledge
  • it’s not poorer nations that benefit from the benevolence of richer ones – rather, the transaction becomes more individual
  • One person, anywhere, can learn, and can teach, another person. That person can be their neighbour or someone on the other side of the planet. And if the concept of reverse innovation shows anything, it’s that the East can teach the West a thing or two.
Kev Harland

More Thoughts on Categories of Mobile Learning Content | Float Mobile Learning - 4 views

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    There are many ways to slice and dice the types of mobile learning content. One way is by starting with the simplest kind of messaging and move to the most complex:
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Using Mobile Learning Resources in Foreign Language Instruction (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDU... - 4 views

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    mobile learning languages
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The 'Learner Experience' of Mobiles, Mobility and Connectedness John Traxler - 0 views

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    "This changes the default from a situation where institutions procure and provide learning technologies to one where learners bring their own technologies and institutions support them. It shifts the locus of control from institution to learner. 
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G140: Separating information and structure from presentation to enable different presen... - 2 views

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    Allowing content to be read on any mobile device. 
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