1. From E-Learning to M-Learning
Terese Bird and Gráinne Conole, University of
Leicester
MobiLearnAsia 2013, Singapore
1st October, 2013
2. Outline
• The evolving landscape of e-
learning to m-learning (mobile e-
learning)
• Affordances of new technologies
• Learner experience
• New m-pedagogies and
implications
• Teacher practice and paradoxes
• Strategies for change
– Intervention framework: linking
research to policy and practice
– New approaches to design
3. Research questions
• What:
– Is the learner experience and teacher practice?
– Are the emergent technologies and their affordances?
– Resources, Open Educational Resources and
practices, and Pedagogical Patterns are there and how
are they being used?
– M-Pedagogies are there and how do they facilitate
different forms of learning?
– New learning design approaches can be used to
promote and support m-learning?
– Strategies are in place to promote and support e-
learning?
– Theories and methodologies are been used?
4. Drivers toward M-learning
• Student expectation
• Course marketing
• Paperlessness
• BYOD: save money
• Supplied: hardware &
software match
• Most IT equipment is mobile
• Most internet access is mobile
• Careers: businesses want it
"As mobile platforms
become more
complex, employers are
increasingly looking for
people who can
demonstrate a foundation
of mobile specific skills
and experience to be sure
of delivering success.”
-CWJobs.co.uk
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-
uk/news/2276691/it-job-seekers-
under-pressure-to-learn-mobile-
development-skills
5. Emergent technologies
and affordances
Resources, OER and
Pedagogical Patterns
Evolving e-learning landscape
E-pedagogies,strategies
andlearningdesign
Interventions
Theoryandmethodology
Evaluations
6. Technological trends
• Mobiles and e-books
• Gesture and augmented
learning
• Learning analytics
• Personalised learning
• Cloud computing
• Ubiquitous learning
• BYOD (Bring your own
device)
• Digital content
• MOOCs
• The flipped classroom
• Wearable technology
http://tinyurl.com/horizon2013
9. Activity
• What are characteristics of good learning?
• Draw on your own experience as a learner and
as a teacher – think about a really good and
bad experience for your own background
• What are the barriers and success factors of
successful learning?
12. From E-Learning to M-Learning
• More than just mobile e-learning
– Anytime, anywhere for the learner (efficiency)
– Enables learning in special location (i.e. fieldwork)
• New affordances of mobile
– Small and compact
– Personal
– Capturing sound, video, image
– New tech i.e. augmented reality
– Wearable tech Peacekeeper student using
supplied iPad and course app –
Security, Conflict & International
Development Masters Distance
13. Other Leicester examples
One iPad per medical
undergraduate:
•Paperlessness, Perso
nalised
•Anywhere
•Medical references
and apps for clinical
settings
Masters of International Education:
•Personalised learning environment
•Accessibility
•iBooks Author to create iBook
14. E-Pedagogies to M-Pedagogies
Flashcard app -
Flashcardlet
Solve
Outbreak
Send tweets with
#mobilearnasia and
by the end of the
day meet a new
colleague to
possibly
collaborate
Springpad as a
personal
curation and
reflective tool
15.
16. 16
• Technology immersed
• Learning approaches: task-
orientated, experiential, jus
t in time, cumulative, social
• Personalised digital
learning environment
• Mix of institutional systems
and cloud-based tools and
services
• Use of course materials
with free resources
Sharpe, Beetham and De Freitas, 2010
Learner experience
25. The Personal Inquiry project
Inquiry-based learning across
formal and informal settings
Sharples, Scanlon et al.
http://www.pi-project.ac.uk/
My community
Inquiry-based learning
26. M-Learning will be
the norm
New business
models –
supplied/BYOD/h
alf&half Co-evolution of
tools & users
Maturing theory &
methodology
More sophisticated
mechanisms re: uptake
The future of m-learning
Continuing emerging
technologies and pedagogies
Institutional
mobile policies
More open materials
27. Task:
• Choose a lesson in which to incorporate
mobile learning
• Choose a pedagogical approach
• Sketch out how you will deploy this
pedagogical approach with mobile
• Share with your group
• Critique each other’s work: what are
issues, problems, opportunities?
28. MSc in Learning Innovation
http://go.le.ac.u/mscli
Certificate and Diploma options
Technology-Enhanced Learning
Learning Design
Research Design and Methods
Case Studies of Innovation
Dissertation
