Future Mobile Learning

Last week in a workshop on mobile learning I was looking for something interesting in that difficult time right after lunch. So I decided to talk about where mobile is going and thus additional opportunities for mobile learning. There was quite a bit of interest, so I uploaded it to SlideShare and in less than a week have had over 2,000 views and some great comments, but no additional suggestions.

What did I miss? Please add other projects in the comments.

Future Mobile Learning (29 August 2011)

You may also be interested in a presentation on changing technology in education which I gave in July 1996 in which I also talked about mobile.

Changing Technology from 1996

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Forum Mobile Learning: Are we there yet?

Last Friday I participated in a Mobile Learning Forum at the 25th Annual Distance Teaching & Learning Conference along with Richard Culatta and Gary Marrer. It started at 8:00 am and continued through both the first and second sessions. Most of the attendees were in discovery or planning stages for mobile learning, but the questions and discussions were excellent.

I have posted my opening and closing slides as one presentation in Slideshare. Richard has information on his presentation and spoof mLearning ad here. Gary's slides are also on Slideshare.

Enjoy.

Preparing for a Charter School Conference Presentation

In preparation for a K-12 mobile learning presentation tomorrow in Wisconsin, I have been trying to catch up on my reading.

I discovered a few new (to me) interesting resources including:

• A listing of iPhone and iPod K-12 applications from "Learning is Change" at http://web.me.com/dowd/Touch/Welcome.html
• Information about the use of QR codes in physical education (PE) classes at http://mrrobbo.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/using-geocached-qr-codes-for-revision-in-a-pe-classroom/ and http://mrrobbo.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/learning-the-skeleton-with-qr-codes/
• A lecture entitled "Opportunities and Barriers for Mobile Learning in the Philippines" by Dr. Jose Lloyd Espiritu, in which he talks about the importance of having "learn mates" or "learn buddies" and cautions to focus on "real learning, not just classroom learning." Read the paper here.
• A wiki full of successful stories (or failures) about deployment of ICT in Developing Countries in general, and more specifically using mobile phones available at http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/wiki/Stories.
  

I was also pleased to see the ASTD Resources on Mobile Learning and very happy that they had some of my materials at http://www.astd.org/LC/2009/0409_mobilelearning.htm.

If you would like to see my presentation (minus some videos), I just posted it on SlideShare.
(The presentation was created and will be delivered using Keynote, but since it would not upload to SlideShare I had to move it to PowerPoint and lost some of the formating. If anyone has any tips for using SlideShare with Keynote, please leave a comment. Thanks.)