Slides from the first mLearning Cape Town event on 11 May 2011.

2. mLearning Working Group
11 May 2011

3. Agenda
9h30 Early arrivals, coffee
10h00 Start
10h05 Welcoming: Gustav Praekelt
10h15 Introductions
11h30 Coffee/ Tea
12h00 mLearning overview: Lauren Dawes
12h40 Discussion/ Questions for Lauren
13h00 Roadmap/ Steps ahead:
Debbie Rogers and Maritza van den Heuvel
13h45 Closing: Gustav Praekelt
14h00 Lunch and networking

4. Welcoming:
Gustav Praekelt

5. Introductions

6. Introductions
10h15 Fundamo
10h20 Mindset
10h25 mLab
10h30 CSIR Mereka Institute
10h35 RTI
10h40 Kalleo
10h45 EDGE Campus
10h50 Centre for Educational Technology
10h55 HPI Research School in ICT4D
11h00 Dalberg
11h05 Praekelt Foundation

7. mLearning Working Group
11 May 2011
Maritza van den Heuvel
Fundamo

8. Who are you?
• Product Manager (Learning
Technologies)
• Product Manager (Mobile Financial
Services)
• Research interests 2010/2011 – tablets
and Smartphones in corporate
learning, mobile performance support,
augmented reality, QR codes in mobile
learning

9. What mLearning technologies/
• Learning delivery platform for
mLearning for web-based corporate
learning projects on tablets and
smartphones – iPad, Samsung Galaxy,
Android

10. Description of technologies
• Kaplan - HTML/XML/JavaScript –
platform to scale for all cross-platform
and cross-browser devices, including
mobile. Focus: Tablets
• Fundamo – Exploring various options
for Partner, Consultant and User
Training via Mobile. Focus: Various
consumption channels

11. Who do you want to link up
• See examples of mLearning in African
context
• Learn about technologies/formats
used
• Learn about deployment/roll out
challenges
• Learn about maintenance/update
challenges
• Share learning technologies expertise

12. mLearning Working Group
11 May 2011
Dylan Busa
Mindset Network

13. Who are you?
• Not-for-profit section 21
• Formal Schooling and Health
• Create, source and distribute high
quality educational content
– Broadcast
– Web
– DVD
– Local Servers

14. What mLearning technologies/
• Student helpdesk through MXit
• Mobile sized video clips

15. Who do you want to link up
• Distribution partnerships
• Application partnerships
• Content development funding

16. mLearning Working Group
11 May 2011
Steve Vosloo and Ben Zaaiman
mLab Southern Africa

17. Who are you?
• The mLab SA supports innovation and
entrepreneurship through mobile apps
and content in the southern Africa region
• Future services: handset testing, training,
business mentoring, research, access to
finance and markets, events and
networking opportunities
• HQ: Tshwane. Satellite: Cape Town
• Sponsored by infoDev, Government of
Finland and Nokia

18. What mLearning technologies/
• Yoza Project (m4Lit)
• m4Ed4Dev (USAID mEducation
Alliance)

19. Description of technologies
• Mobisite (www.yoza.mobi) (Django,
Postgres)
• MXit
• Facebook

20. Who do you want to link up
• Be part of strong network of
mlearning practitioners and advocates
• Think about how to overcome existing
mlearning challenges

21. mLearning Working Group
11 May 2011
Merryl Ford, Adele Botha and
Jacqueline Batchelor
CSIR Meraka Institute

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31. mLearning Working Group
11 May 2011
Elizabeth Randolph
RTI

32. Who are you?
www.rti.org www.rti.org/idg
RTI International is one of the largest
independent nonprofit research organizations
in the United States, with a staff of over 2,800
around the world and annual revenue of US
$709.7 million. We offer technical and research
expertise in health, governance and justice,
education and training, and environmental
management. Our Center for Information
Communication Technologies works across
sectors to ensure that innovative technologies
are considered in all of our work.

33. What mLearning technologies/
initiatives do you work with?
• Mobile technologies are used in:
• Advocacy
• Crime prevention: Seguridad Inalámbrica (El Salvador)
• Patient record systems and reporting (ZEPRS - Zambia)
• Bank transfers
• Reporting clinical data and stocks: Uganda, Kenya
• Tracking disease
• Transfer teacher development and learning materials
• Inter-departmental data management/monitoring of
South Africa’s Thuthuzela Centers for rape victims

34. Description of technologies
http://www.ictedge.org/mobile/ntd_stocks
RTI has developed a simple web-based
system to gather information from mobile
phones sent as text or binary SMS. The
system presents this information both on
maps and lists, allowing for a quick
detection of sites running out of drugs, or
falling behind on their treatment provision
rate.

35. Description of technologies
http://www.ictedge.org/seguridad_inalambrica
• After analyzing alternatives, RTI selected
Ushahidi as the web-based component of the
project. Using an open source, system already
developed, with several developers around the
world eager to assist in its improvent, enabled
a quick start and ensured strong technical
support. Based on PHP and MySQL, a
common product combination for open source
software applications, the system is simple for
most software developers to understand and
modify.

36. Description of technologies
http://www.ictedge.org/seguridad_inalambrica (Continued)
• Reported events are classified based on categories that
closely match the legal categorization for criminal and
regulatory offenses. A timeline plots the incidence of
events in each category over time
• RTI developed a simple, multilingual, and fully-
configuratble data-entry application for the mobile
phone to allow law enforcement officers to submit crime
incident data, including geographical information,
remotely. The application was designed around key data
elements, and was developed iteratively during training
and implementation. This allowed RTI to better observe
and understand user needs, and for users to be involved
in developing the system.

37. Who do you want to link up with/
what do you want to gain from today?
Very interested in learning about what
others are doing and to explore areas
to partner to meet new challenges

38. mLearning Working Group
11 May 2011
Willie Maritz
Kalleo Learning

39. Who are you?
• Founder and Managing Director: Kalleo Learning
– “We create world class performance and development solutions
that are rapid and cost-effective.”
• BA Hons. Human Resource Development / MBA
• Specialist consultant in Learning Technologies
• International speaker on Learning Technologies
• Pioneering role in Mobile Learning
– Over 20 000 active users

40. What mLearning technologies/
• SA representatives of:
– Hot Lava Mobile
– MobileTools
• Projects:
– Vodacom: Rapid product updates for Trade network
– UFS: Lecture summaries, evaluations, surveys
and in-class response system
– FNB
– Volkswagen
– Cleveme.mobi

41. Description of technologies
• Hot Lava Mobile
– To any WAP phone
– From basic text and images to advanced media
– Powerpoint authoring
– Includes Mobile LMS
– Assessments / surveys
– Installed or SaaS

42. Description of technologies
• MobileTools
– More suited smart phones
– Basic to high end media content
– Includes collaboration
– Assessments

43. Who do you want to link up
• Learn about initiatives
• Promote our technologies as possible solutions
• Get to know people in the industry
• Collaborate on social projects e.g. education and
HIV awareness

44. mLearning Working Group
11 May 2011
Gareth Heuer
Tanye ver Loren van Themaat
EDGE Campus

45. Who are you?
• EDGE CAMPUS
• Mobile-Gaming-Education Platform
– Paul Kim (CEO)
– Gareth Heuer (CMO)
– Coenie Beyers (CTO)
– Grace Kim (Event Manager)
– Tanye ver Loren van Themaat (COO)

46. What mLearning technologies/
• Mobile phone
– Mxit
• Gaming

47. Description of technologies
• EDGE Campus
– Health
– Business
– Academic
– Social & Environmental
• Spark Curiosity
• Fill the Gap by giving resources

48. Description of technologies
• Play 24
• Four numbers: how to get to 24
• 4,4,10,10
• ((10*10)-4)/4=24
• EDGE Campus presents MathX
Challenge 2011

49. Who do you want to link up
• Get a better understanding of the
mLearning environment.
• Learn from established people.

50. mLearning Working Group
11 May 2011
Dick Ng’ambi & Cheryl Hodgkinson-
Williams
Centre for Educational Technology
University of Cape Town

51. Who are you: Cheryl
• 2009-current Associate Professor of ICT in
Education at the University of Cape Town &
– Lecturer on the MEd ICT in Education programme –
online learning design, advanced research design
– Project Director of the Open Educational Resources
Project (2008-2010)
– Researcher in NRF project: Academics’ digital
identities
• 2007-2008 Project Manager of Opening
Scholarship Project, UCT
• 1998-2007 Associate Professor ICT in Education
at Rhodes University, Grahamstown

52. Who are you: Dick
• 2005-current Associate Professor of ICT
in Education at the University of Cape
Town &
– Co-ordinator of the Postgraduate programme
in ICT in Education
– Principal Investigator / Leading Researcher in
Mobile Learning in Developing Context; and
Podcasting for learning
– Designer & Developer of Anonymous
Knowledge Sharing Tool (DFAQ – Dynamic
Frequently Asked Questions)

53. • Member of following review boards:
– British Journal of Educational Technology
– Educational Technology & Society Journal
– Technology Education Journal
– International Journal of Information and
Communication
– International Association for Development
of the Information Society Conference on
Mobile Learning

54. • Other professional associations:
– International Forum of Educational
Technology & Society
– American Society for Information Science
and Technology
– Global Researcher and Testbed Network for
Technology Enhanced Learning
– Member of the Think-Tank: Partnership for
Higher Education in Africa
– Learning in Science and Engineering Group

55. • Published over 60 articles in journals
and peer-reviewed conference
proceedings both locally and
internationally
• Widely recognised and rated by the
National Research Foundation (NFR)

56. What mLearning technologies/
initiatives do you work with?
• MEd ICT courses
• CHEC Short course on ICT for
teaching and learning in Higher
Education

57. Description of technologies
• Short Message Services (SMS) applications
– To empower silenced and marginalised learners
• Microblogging
– To enable situated learning
• Wap applications
– To leverage institutional technology infrastructure
with ubiquitous technologies
• Social Media
– To exploit existing social practices for learning

58. Who do you want to link up with/
what do you want to gain from
• People working in similar area so as to
share experiences on zero-rating
options of student communication
costs for educational purposes
• Possible find people we can
collaborate with on researching mobile
learning and educational impact in
Africa

59. mLearning Working Group
11 May 2011
Raymond Mugwanya
HPI Research School in ICT4D, Dept. of Computer
Science (University of Cape Town, SA)

60. Who are you?
• PhD Candidate
• Working in the area of mobile learning
• Lecturer at Makerere University
(Uganda)

61. What mLearning technologies/
• Podcasting Systems
• VLEs/LMSs
• Mobile devices

62. Description of technologies
• Podcasting Systems – Used in the
preparation and distribution of digital
files (audio and video)
• LMS – Used for the administration,
documentation, tracking, and reporting
of training programs, classroom and
online events, e-learning programs, and
training content.
• Mobile devices – Typically a handheld or
portable computing device.

63. Who do you want to link up
• Link up with mLearning special
interest groups
• Developers
• Researchers in M-Learning
• Any Industry Partners
• Opportunities for collaboration

64. mLearning Working Group
11 May 2011
Robin Miller
Dalberg Global Development
Advisors
(and Praekelt Foundation)

65. Who are you?
• Perpetual, avid learner, with a curiosity
and passion for the ways in which
mobile phones can transform the
delivery of healthcare, education,
finance and governance.
• Senior Consultant with Dalberg Global
Development Advisors and co-founder
of the Praekelt Foundation

66. What mLearning technologies/
• Supporting donors, investors, ngos
and other institutions across Africa
and globally to explore opportunities
for invest in mLearning
• Currently exploring mLearning
business models for K-12 education in
the Caribbean

67. Description of technologies
• Work with a range of technologies and
devices which vary by client, location
and learning objectives

68. Who do you want to link up
• Looking forward to sharing learning
and lessons from the field

69. mLearning Working Group
11 May 2011
Debbie Rogers
Praekelt Foundation

70. Introducing
Praekelt Foundation

71. 01
Praekelt Foundation: Mission Statement
Praekelt Foundation is a technology
incubator that develops mobile
technology solutions for social good.
Non-profit, innovative and open
source, we believe mobile is the only
way to bring life-saving information
and services to people in Africa and
in other emerging markets.

72. mLearning Initiatives:
Young Africa Learn

74. 02
Praekelt Foundation: Case Studies
Young Africa Live
Results
330,000+ unique users
960,000+ comments
32,000,000+ page views

75. 02
Introducing...

76. 02
Where does the idea come from?
Based on the success of Young
Africa Live, we will be creating a
mLearning portal called Young
Africa Learn. This portal will be
engaging, relevant, curriculum
aligned and free to access. The
focus for the first year of this
portal will be on Maths education.

77. Who would you like to
link up with/What do
you want to gain?

78. 03
Who would we like to link up with?
‣Gaming Developers
‣Content Experts
‣Content Strategist

79. 03
What do you want to gain?
‣Set up working group
‣Share expertise and open source
tools
‣Joint funding proposals

80. Coffee

81. mLearning overview:
Lauren Dawes

82. #mLearningCT
01
Introduction
Lauren Dawes
GSMA
mLearning: A Platform for Educational
Opportunities at the Base of the Pyramid

83. #mLearningCT
02
Learning challenges today
‣Cost and Funding
‣Child Labour Expectations
‣Equal Opportunities
‣Drop-Outs
‣Application and relevance of
curriculum

84. #mLearningCT
02
Learning challenges today
‣Cultural and Religious Attitudes
‣Teacher Training and Support
‣Efficiency

85. #mLearningCT
02
High Mobility High Mobility
Low Context High Context
You are
Here
Low Mobility Low Mobility
Low Context High Context

86. Discussion/ Questions for
Lauren

87. #mLearningCT
01
Introduction
Questions and Discussion
From the floor or through the
#mLearningCT hashtag

88. Roadmap/ Steps ahead:
Debbie Rogers and Maritza van den Heuvel

89. Closing
Gustav Praekelt

90. Lunch