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Mobile Learning

Alastair ClarkSenior Research Fellow NIACE

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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013Mobile Phones per 100 inhabitants

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Source: International Telecoms Union

“The exploitation of ubiquitous handheld

technologies, together with wireless and mobile phone

networks, to facilitate, support, enhance and extend

the reach of teaching and learning.”

Mobile learning

'the policy of permitting employees to bring personally owned mobile devices to the workplace and similarly for students to bring their own

devices to their learning institution.'

BYOD

(Connected) handheld technologies, to facilitate,

support, enhance and extend the reach of teaching and

learning.

Students to bring their own devices to their learning

institution.

BYODMobile learning

Handheld technologies, to facilitate, support, enhance

and extend the reach of teaching and learning.

Students to bring their own devices to their learning

institution.

BYODMobile Learning

Learners:

Learners must be empowered to fully exploit their own understanding of, and familiarity with digital technology for their own learning.

the under-exploitation of learners’ skills, devices

engage and empower learners’ use of digital - and the use of their own devices

BIS response to FELTAG

Riding the wave of BYOD: developing a framework for creative pedagogiesThomas Cochrane, Laurent Antonczak, Helen Keegan, Vickel NarayanResearch in Learning Technology Vol. 22, 2014

Riding the wave of BYOD: developing a framework for creative pedagogiesCochrane, Antonczak, Keegan, Narayan

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Question 10

In your opinion, how important are each of these reasons for providers to have a BYOD policy?

Numbers responding ‘Very Important’ n= 39

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Q 1 In which of the following ways, if any, do your learners use their own mobile devices?

N=39

10%

• Online learning to be recorded in ILR:

• Learning materials that the learner accesses on a college virtual learning environment such as Moodle

• Video demonstrations or Powerpoint presentations accessed outside the classroom

• Structured learning packages that are not facilitated by a lecturer.

• Online learning NOT to be recorded in ILR

• A video of a practical demonstration that is shown in the classroom with the lecturer present

• Work undertaken on a computer with a lecturer present

• An online webinar delivered by a lecturer

• Homework assessments that are undertaken on-line

• Email/telephone or online tutorials or feedback discussions.

52.00%54.00%56.00%58.00%60.00%62.00%64.00%66.00%68.00%70.00%

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in ILR

Not to be recorded

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ILR.

Much more to FELTAG than 10%

…remove ….. inhibitors and ‘nudge’ the Further Education system towards a digital future

Mrs Van der Tramp

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