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iUOC: enhanced mobile learning at UOC_EUNIS 2011
- 1. iUOC enhanced mobile learning at UOC Eva P. Gil-Rodríguez Universitat Oberta de Catalunya - UOC
- 2. Our university • more than 50,000 students & 2,000 teachers who teach and learn through a virtual learning environment • learning contents in different formats (xml technology): paper, pdf, web, audiobooks, videobooks, daisy, electronic books… Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu1UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA
- 3. Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu2UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA But why mobile? Mobile society From Virtual Learning Environments to Mobile Learning Environments
- 4. Our approach: UCD perspective in m-learning Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu3UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA mobile scenario = reading & news! • e-mail • virtual classrooms • institutional news • agenda • self-assessment activities • contents e-mail contents agenda news… notifications from classrooms
- 5. What’s i-UOC? Main Goal: To enable students & teachers to access to learning contents and alerts from the spaces of communication of our Virtual Learning Environment in different mobile devices, such as the iPad tablet Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu4UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA
- 6. And how does it work? Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu5UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxtIJp04hUI
- 7. But… how is it possible? Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu6UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA
- 8. The iUOC App Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu7UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA
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- 14. Pilot test • Agreement with Orange Spain:45 iPad’s 3G for students and teachers in order to test this native app Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu13UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA
- 15. Assessment • Qualitative & Quantitative Assessment • Focus group with teachers • User Satisfaction Scale (both students and teachers) Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu14UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA Students and teachers evaluated iUOC 4 iPad positively as a Communication tool between them and as an Interactive support for learning!
- 16. Results: about the iPad device • The iPad with 3G connection is a good tool for education; apart from the iUOC, different applications help students and teachers in their daily tasks • The iPad is well accepted and used for reading, visualizing and searching Information • Despite its positive feature of fast access to information, the iPad is not a good tool for writing and creating content! Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu15UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA
- 17. Results: regarding Pedagogical Innovation • The iPad could help teachers to imagine and conceptualize new ways of designing activities in a more dynamic way, which could involve a change in the pedagogical model • Students and Teachers do not know exactly which are the pedagogical and technical possibilities of the iPad devices Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu16UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA
- 18. Results: about Connectivity • Referring to the iUOC, both teachers and students reveal that the application is user friendly and intuitive • 3G connection is highly valued, like that of other technical aspects such as speed and wifi connection • 3G connection facilitates the use of the iPad anytime-anywhere, and this is essential in order to incorporate this device in mobile learning environments Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu17UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA
- 19. Next steps • Development of iUOC app for Android and smartphone tablets (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry…) • Optimization of iUOC for other profiles (teachers and management staff) • Beyond connection to the Mobile Learning Environment: conceptualization of pedagogical apps Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu18UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA
- 20. Conclusions • The iUOC project provides fast access to learning contents and spaces of communication of the Virtual Learning Environment of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in a scalable way • Results from pilot test show how the iPad can catalyze new learning experiences, owing to the tablet’s interactive capabilities In that sense, we should complete the experience of access to our Virtual Learning Environment and digital contents with interactive and specific native apps for education, according to the subject area chosen Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu19UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA
Notas del editor
- Good morning to you all. We want to present the project iUOC, which is a project to enhance mobile learning at our university, the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain.
- But first of all, let me introduce you to my institution briefly. We are the Open University of Catalonia, which is placed in Barcelona, Spain, and it’s a distance university which is wholly virtual. We have more than fifty thousand students and two thousand teachers who teach and learn through a virtual learning environment. We have virtual classrooms with different collaborative skills and applications in order to do the courses, as forums, wikis and blogs, and we have also the learning contents in different digital formats other than printed paper, as web of course, pdf, audiobooks, videobooks, daisy format for blind people and even specific formats of electronic ink, as epub and mobipocket.
- But why are we interested in mobile learning; well, as you know, we are in a mobile society, and now for example it’s common to connect to the world wide web with laptops more than with a pc. Moreover, every one of our students have a mobile phone and around seven thousand of them use the internet connection. And on the other hand, it is very frequent for our students to take advantage of their time while commuting in the public transport, like the train or underground, to read learning materials, and this is an important question because the use of public transport is very common in cities like Barcelona, as you can imagine. In this sense, it’s very important for us to expand our concept of the virtual learning environment with mobile learning applications that are useful and friendly for our students.
- In order to develop this mobile learning environment, we use an approach based on the user centered design process, which involves that first of all we should know what are the needs and expectations of our real users, both students and teachers. After that, we use this information to design the environment and their different tools and applications. For example, when we decide to move to a mobile learning environment, we interviewed students from our institution who profite their commute time reading contents and doing some activity related to the university. And we interviewed them at this mobile scenario, that is: we went with this students in their commute trip, asking about their learning tasks in general and related to this mobile space. It’s important to note that we choose commuting contexts because we considered that they are very paradigmatic scenarios for mobile learning.
- First of all, whats i-UOC? i-UOC is a project which enables students and teachers to access to learning contents and notifications from the spaces of communication of our Virtual Learning Environment in different mobile devices, such as the iPad tablet.
- And how does it work? Well, we think the best way to show you how the iUOC works is a visual one, and then we prepared this short and self explanatory video with our iPad application. This iPad application is our first native application in that sense, so enjoy it!
- Now I will explain to you which is the technology that supports the iUOC. Our virtual campus is a customizable virtual environment, with a widget container where you can find different widgets with a fast access to the most important information. You can personalize what widgets you have in your home page, but obviously and as you can see the most important widgets for students are classrooms, email, agenda, news, etc… But how can we access to this information with a mobile device? Our solution is taking all this information from our virtual campus through RSS!
- We know from this previous user studies that the most important information for a student in a mobile situation is: notifications from classrooms, email, agenda, news, alerts from the university and learning contents, so in this way they can access and enjoy this information in their iPad! Then, we take this information from its respective widgets through RSS. RSS from widgets allows us to conceptualize applications for different mobile devices and, in this way, this native ipad application is the first one in this sense.
- This is the access to email, where you can read, answer, forward and write new emails
- Here you have the access to virtual classrooms, with notifications of new messages in their spaces of communication.
- This is the complete list of learning contents of a student, in different digital formats such as pdf, web, mobipocket, epub, videobook and audiobook
- News from the university
- And appointments in your agenda.
- Finally,it’s important to say that we have made a pilot test in collaboration with the operator Orange Spain, and thanks to this agreement, 45 students and teachers can test the application with an iPad 3G for a term.
- The main conclusion of the pilot test was that the project was evaluated very positively as a communication tool and as an interactive support for learning!
- The iUOC provides fast access to learning contents and spaces of communication of the Virtual Learning Environment of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in a scalable way that allows us to provide the necessary information to design other native applications for different mobile devices. The conclusion from the pilot test is that we can state that the iUOC primarily shows how the iPad and connecting to the virtual learning environment using this device not only permits students to study anywhere and at any time, but also catalyses new learning experiences, owing to the tablet’s interactive capabilities. In that sense, we should complete the experience of access to VLE and digital contents with interactive and specific native apps for education, according to the subject area chosen
- So that’s all! If you want more information, you can contact us by email, facebook or twitter.