A few slides to prompt Open University staff to think about how to facilitate and exploit mobile learning within OU courses. This slideshow has been put together for the OU's 'Mobile Learning Winter Festival' http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/4967. Note that some of the links are accessible to Open University staff only.

1. Looking to the future Pictures by: astio , ckaroli , kiki follettosa , Josh Liba , Feuillu OU Mobile Learning Winter Festival 18th – 19th January 2011 Andrew Brasher IET, The Open University

2. Current UK context Proportion of adults who live in a home that has a mobile phone but no landline phone in the UK : 14% (Q1 2010) ( Ofcom (2010) ) Number of 3G mobile subscriptions in the UK: 32% (end 2009) ( ibid ) 26% of mobile users now have a smartphone ( Communications market report 2010 , Ofcom) 3G network connections by network, Ofcom 2010

6. Areas for exploration …and more Learning contexts and learner interaction Formal Informal Interaction modalities Speech input and output Touch Position Orientation Technological infrastructure Sensor networks Sense-making Video sensors Location sensors Audio sensors