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Mobile Learning – the Big Picture

Ellen Wagner, Sage Road Solutions, LLC

Compiled for the students of ITEC 830

San Francisco State University

October 11, 2009

• Explore the current status of mobility

• Consider the challenges of mobile learning implementations

• Review 10 questions learning professionals should ask themselves before getting started

Agenda

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Lots of Recent Mobile Industry News • Mobile Crunch reports that the Mobile Internet is

experiencing a 34 percent jump this year, thanks to women, teens, seniors.

• AdMob Mobile Metrics http://metrics.admob.com/2009/09/august-2009-mobile-metrics-report/ provide data collected from 9000 mobile web site

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More Recent Announcements

• Microsoft Mobile is going up against the iPhonehttp://www.apple.com/iphone/ and Android http://www.android.com/

• AT&T Reverses Policy on iPhone Internet Calls• More mobile news from Palm: review free app distribution• Adobe and Rim Announce Flash partnership

http://www.rimarkable.com/research-in-motion-and-adobe-announce-full-flash-support-for-blackberry

• Adobe developing Flash iPhone compilers in CS5 http://blogs.computerworld.com/14864/adobe_drops_a_flash_bombshell_on_apples_iphone

• Flash and the Open Screen Project http://bit.ly/NyjiN• Verizon Wireless and Google ink a collaboration pact. Next up - Google Voice

support. http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html• Verizon is investing in LTE. And yes u should know what that

is http://bit.ly/YopuJ• There’s a Map for that – Verizon gets in Apple and AT&T’s Face

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“Mobile” Means Many Things

Personal digital devices in your pocket or purse

Working away from the office

Working in the field, e.g. collecting data, sales, remote office

Ubiquitous computing

Unified communications

Moving from one academic program to another

Issues Related to Ability (Section 508)

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Internet and Mobile Web Statistics


Today’s Telecom Industry

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• Networks• Services

Carriers

• Handsets• Peripherals

Equipment• Commercially

Published• User Generated

Content

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Top 20 Countries with Highest Internet Usehttp://w

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• International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an agency of the UN, found that nearly a quarter of the world's 6.7 billion people use the internet.

• By the end of last year there were an estimated 4.1bn mobile subscriptions, up from 1bn in 2002.

More than 4 BILLION worldwide mobile phone subscriptions

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Ubiquitous Mobility and the Participative Web

• Mobility is more than deploying smart phones and iPods on an ad hoc basis.

• Today, mobility has as much to do with moving from desktop computers to laptop computers, as it does with figuring out how to integrate smart phones into the existing network.

• Enterprise mobility is less about devices and more about ensuring that information, resources, assets are available regardless of one’s physical location

• Mobility is becoming a core IT initiative. As enterprises continue to increase their mobile voice and data spending, IT organizations are in a better position to spread the benefits of a mobile work style to a larger portion of users than ever before.


What the Mobile Web Looks Like

• More wireless devices, more wireless broadband services. Apps make the device. Open access to run any application on any device anywhere in the world.

• The next-gen computer and ultimate social media device: The 3G Smartphone

• Sensors and Location Based Services

• Web Video, Games, Collaboration

• Content or Commerce? The Transactional Side of Mobile

• Beyond 3G: LTE and 4G Services

• The Internet of Things

• The Mobile Web is all about Apps

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http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-smartphone-sales-to-beat-pc-sales-by-2011-2009-8


What do 1.2 billion mobile youth want?

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The Carrier Waves: Wireless Technologies now support Handheld Mobile Learning

Frequency handoff: New devices can toggle between several frequencies

2G GSM GPRS

ZigBee

DECT

2.5G EDGE

3G UMTS

WiMAX 802.16x

UWB802.15x

Bluetooth802.15x

3G MediaFLO OFDM 802.20x

Wi-Fi802.11x

3G HSDPA

4G Deployed in the US by 2010-2012

RFID

NFC

3G EV-DO

W-PANsWireless Personal Area Networks

W-LANsWireless Local Area Networks

W-MANsWireless Metropolitan Area Networks

W-GANsWireless Global Area Networks

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Japan and South Korea

Western Europe

United States

2007

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VoiceData

Japan and South Korea

Western Europe

United States

2.5G and 3G Cellular Networks Started Rolling Out in the US in @005

Courtesy Sam Atkins, Ambient Insight, 2007

From the Mobile Web to Mobile Learning


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Mobile learning is…

• Connecting people

• Anytime, anywhere

• The right information, on the right device, the right context, the right guidance

• Mostly informal (e.g., mobile performance support, games, community, conferencing and collaboration)


Emergency

Alerts (weather and safety)

Compliance

Business Continuity

Teaching (remediation, reminders

Learning (communities, interest networks)

Engaged, Informed Campus Community

Mobile Learning is part of aMobile Services Taxonomy


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Different Perspectives on Mobile Learning

• Mobile learning or m-Learning or mlearning?

• Handheld devices for learning and performance support?

• “Drill and Kill”

• Games?

• Social Media?

• Location-Based Services?

• Web conferencing?

• Video?


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Mobile Learning is NOT necessarily:

An online course on a handheld device

Limited to smart-phones

Limited to games

Always connected

Always interactive

The same as “Wireless” (although the two get hopelessly tangled)

Wagner & Wilson (2005) Disconnected: why learning professional need to care about mobile learning. Training and Development.


Mobile Learning is for PEOPLE who are mobile

• For the on-demand learning needs of connected citizens in an information-centric world.• It is enabled by networks, carriers and devices, demanded by people on-the-go.


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Ask Yourself 10 Questions


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Answers to these 10 questions will get you started:

1. Why a mobile learning project?

2. What do you really want to do?

3. How you know when you have met your goal?

4. What unique result will you achieve?

5. What do you need to get it done?

6. For whom is your mobile initiative intended?

7. What will your stakeholders need to be successful?

8. How are you going to fund it?

9. How are you going to sustain it, and for how long?

10.How will you evaluate your effectiveness?


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Answers to these NEXT 10 questions will refine your quest

1. Is it a research project for a grant proposal, or is it a response to an RFP?

2. Is it a pilot project or work-for-hire?

3. Who is going to own the work?

4. Is it an interactive team or community network, a broadcast distribution framework or both?

5. Is it going to depend on community produced content or commercially produced content?

6. Is it for formal learning programs, for performance support or for informal learning assets?

7. What kind of wireless network will you employ?

8. Who will provide the service?

9. What kind of reception technologies will be used?

10. Who is going to pay for the equipment, the network and service charges?


Thanks for your attention and interest! Please feel free to get in touch if you have questions, comments.

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.sageroadsolutions.com

Blog: http://elearningroadtrip.typepad.com

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