ELEARNING INNOVATIONSCONFERENCE

ELEARNING MEETS MOBILE INNOVATION

30TH July 2014

*ContentsELEARNING INNOVATIONS

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CASE STUDY

Examples Lessons TrendsAbout eMobilis

The CFO of a company asked his CEO:

“ What happens if we invest in developing our people and then they leave the company? “

The CEO answered,

“ What happens if we don’t and they stay?”

*Investing in any Learning

*About eMobilis

• Training and App Development Institute: Launched training in May 2009

• Over 1,300 students enrolled, trained to date

• Government registered- Kenya Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Tech

• Key areas – Mobile Network Infrastructure /Software development

• eMobilis Philosophy is focused on entrepreneurship

• Co- Founder of MLAB East Africa- World Bank Regional Mobile Lab

• University Boot camps (JKUAT, ANU, KCA, UoN)

• First of its Kind in sub-Saharan Africa

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*Outcomes

Over 1,370 students trained

Partnerships with 5 Top Kenyan Universities

65% of students trained on scholarships

Over 500 apps created and published on 4 stores

Over 35 technology start-ups launched – 15 incubated

Projects for Google, Nokia, Safaricom, Microsoft

Students from 5 Sub Saharan countries trained

DEMOGRAPHICS

Ages 17 - 30 22% Female 15% IT Practitioners 65% on scholarships

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*Clients + Programs

MOBILE

ANDROID

USSD

J2ME, PHP, MYSQL, LWUIT

INTEGRATED

HTML5

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* Labs and GradELEARNING INNOVATIONS

*Why Mobile

WORLDS LARGEST

DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM

MULTI-DEVICE –TABLET, MULIKA

MWIZI

AFFORDABILITY

- MOORES LAW

4G AND SMARTPHONES-

COMPUTING POWER

THERE ARE MORE PHONES GLOBALLY

THAN TOILETS

- UN Study

CONVENIENCEPORTABILITY

ANYTIME

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* ExpectationsELEARNING INNOVATIONS

Your cell phone has more computing power than the computers

used during the Apollo Space Shuttle era to send a man to the moon.

- NASA

*Stats

• Ericsson a technology and communications services provider, predicts that there will be 930 million mobile subscriptions in sub saharan Africa by end of 2019, with 557 million smartphones and 710 million broadband subscriptions

• This fast technological revolution spurred by a rise in social media, content rich apps and video content, would see the number of users skyrocket to 9.2 billion, with 82.3% of the populace on mobile broadband

• Mobile phone usage has spread more rapidly in Africa than on any other continent recently - at an average 18 percent a year in the last five years.

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*Examples• ENEZA

• “virtual tutor and teacher’s assistant on a low-cost mobile phone.”

• Students use text messages to take quizzes, view mini-lessons and get extra help.

• Their data is being logged for viewing by parents and teachers, and schools (country-wide data – rank).

• 30 cents a month, unlimited access to its content, which conforms to Kenya’s standard curriculum.

• Students choose topics by class and unit. Then respond to questions sent via text message, and get tailored responses depending on their answers.

• If students score less than 50 percent on a quiz, they receive a “mini lesson” that reviews the topic.

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*ExamplesMAMA: Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action

• A global movement that uses mobile technologies to improve the health and lives of mothers in developing nations.

• Mobile technologies are providing women with access to life-saving maternal health information.

• MAMA Voice sends pre-recorded messages in the same languages as the text messages for users who face literacy challenges.

• MAMA MXit takes advantage of the 10 million-plus users on MXit, a social networking site, and has established an educational portal for South African men and women between the ages of 18 to 25 years old with important information about pregnancy, childbirth and parenting.

• Women are charged one rand (about 10 cents) to sign up for the MAMA services.

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*ExamplesKUZA Doctor: Backpack Farm

• A Farmer’s Mobile Toolkit from Farm to Fork.”

• Mobile tool in Kenya made to assist smallholder farmers in managing their production

• Supports farmers using the most basic phones with critical knowledge to increase their rates of production and subsequent incomes while learning the value of local biodiversity and conservation farming.

• Smart phone android application

• “Toolkit” sends information to farmer’s phones like “Farming 101″ that teaches farmers water management techniques (including 7 kinds of drip irrigation and rainwater harvesting techniques), business tutorials and a ”’whiteboard” where farmers can connect with one another and markets.

• After selecting a crop, farmers receive an average of 36 messages a season (45 for more technical crops) that help guide them through 8 stages from planning to harvest.

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*ExamplesGo Army Ed

• IBM created portal for US Army- 2001

• An educated Soldier - best asset of the Army. 1.4m + Soldiers. Free Ed

• Access to thousands of regionally accredited colleges and universities and over 1,000 available degree plans.- 25 Higher Education Colleges- online education

• Schools use it o deliver degree and course offerings and to report Soldier progress

• Army Education Counselors use it to provide educational guidance

• Soldiers use it to apply for Tuition Assistance and take online courses

• Laptop, Internet Helpdesk, Program Mentoring, ISP, no paper processes

• Work toward a college degree or certificate anytime, anywhere

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*Lessons LearnedELEARNING INNOVATIONS

• Audience determines platform- Android, SMS, Windows, iOS (iPad)

• Accessibility – App store vs pre-load?

• Integrate Social Media and Multimedia

• Content from subject matter experts

• Consider data costs for user- offline vsonline

• Log-in tracking of progress, payments

• Use Video, quizzes, audio

• Pilot with users- feedback loop

*Trends in eLearning ELEARNING INNOVATIONS

1

Multi- lingualNot just English –Kiswahili, French

etc

3

7

2

86

4

5

Asynchronous

Learning in Non traditional formats and Just In Time Learning

Responsive Build For different

screen sizes

UI/ UXUser Centered

Design. Tools FluidUI

SocialCollaboration, group work, peer learning, communities of practice

4G AND VIDEOIncreased Media use and streaming video for visual learning, video conferencing

Smartphone growthBetter

functions, larger screen size

PilotingIterative development

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