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    A Mindset for Mobile Learning: A Journey through Theory and Practice
    A Mindset for Mobile Learning: A Journey through Theory and Practice
    A Mindset for Mobile Learning: A Journey through Theory and Practice
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    A Mindset for Mobile Learning: A Journey through Theory and Practice

    By Julian Stodd

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    The subject of this book is 'mobile learning', but 'mobile' means many things: it means technology, as in a mobile phone or tablet, and it also means mobile learning courses themselves, as well as being used to describe the experience of learning in this way, of experiencing 'mobile'.

    I'm interested in all of these things, in exploring what they each mean and how we can pull them together to provide a meaningful narrative of how we develop and experience mobile learning.

    It's easy to think of mobile as just being a distribution channel, like a television or a radio. We can view the devices as just conduits to push content out to learners, but this is to miss so much of the potential, potential that is only unfolding to us as we speak. People interact with mobile devices in fundamentally different ways: they are social tools used to reinforce our standing, fashion statements, aspirational decoration, sources of knowledge and power, able to make us win a pub quiz or find a pizza, but also business tools used to organize meetings, remind us of deadlines and let us speak to the boss when we're running late.

    Mobile devices transcend the traditional boundaries of our lives, crossing over between the formal spaces of work and the informal social spaces that surround it. The devices are not purely functional, they are much, much more.

    It's important that we understand just how widely mobile has permeated our lives, how often we reach into our pocket and ready our thumbs for action. We need to recognize how it impacts on knowledge: we used to have to 'know' things, whilst now we often only need to know how to find those things out fast. Knowing how to use Google is often enough.

    We need to develop a mindset for mobile learning.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJulian Stodd
    Release dateNov 8, 2012
    ISBN9780957319929
    A Mindset for Mobile Learning: A Journey through Theory and Practice
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    Julian Stodd

    Julian Stodd is a learning and development professional based in the UK, specialising in elearning, mobile learning, social media and learning theory. As founder and co-captain of SeaSalt Learning, Julian is heavily involved the strategic and operational development of learning solutions in a range of areas, working at a strategic level with global clients to understand how their learning needs can be met. Julian started out volunteering in museums at the age of twelve, doing every job imaginable, from conserving artefacts and cataloguing collections, through designing exhibitions, and into giving guided tours and working with school groups. He loved the opportunities to work with stories, to meet people, and to walk with them along a learning journey. Via a conservation sciences degree with archaeology, this led him into postgraduate research around educational theory, communication theory, psychology and design. Julian is grounded in understanding how people learn, whatever the technology, and what the barriers are that can prevent them from learning. Today, he writes widely in his learning blog around various aspects of learning: mainly e-learning, social learning and learning technology. Asked recently what the most important skill was for an aspiring e-learning specialist, Julian's answer was ‘storytelling’. At heart, everything revolves around the clarity and coherence of the narrative.

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      A Mindset for Mobile Learning - Julian Stodd

      A Mindset for Mobile Learning

      A Journey through Theory and Practice

      by Julian Stodd

      A Mindset for Mobile Learning

      A Journey through Theory and Practice

      Published by Julian Stodd at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Julian Stodd

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      What do we mean by ‘mobile’?

      The emergence of mobile

      Why we need a methodology for mobile

      You can't procure a solution

      1. The Mobile World

      Extending the learning experience

      Inquisitive minds

      The pub quiz phenomenon

      Taking chances - creating space for experimentation

      Missing the point of mobile

      The rock and the roll of mobile

      2. Technology and Experience

      Technology

      History and future

      3. Features and Functions

      Augmented reality

      Video

      Audio

      Interactivity

      Geolocated

      4. The Triumvirate of Mobile Learning

      People

      Environment

      Subject

      Why knowledge is no longer enough

      Challenge and failure in mobile learning

      5. Practical Mobile Learning Solutions

      Practical application 1: ‘Performance support’

      Practical application 2: ‘Just in time learning’

      Practical application 3: 'Supporting social learning'

      6. Case Studies and Our Learning

      Case study 1: compliance training for a healthcare provider

      Case study 2: clinical e-learning

      Summary

      Introduction

      Picture the scene: I’m running late, and as I burst out of the coffee shop I’m trailing laptop bag in one hand, paper coffee cup in the other. Whilst cornering fast I wedge the coffee between my arm and body, allowing myself to pull my phone from my pocket, fire off a text and check the train times, all the while avoiding the old lady towing the shopping bag and several lamp posts.

      There's an art to squeezing the coffee cup between your arm and body: too loose and it falls, too tight and the top pops off. It's a modern day skill I’ve perfected after hours of practice. I am an agile learner.

      Mobile technology is part of our everyday lives. We use our phones to check Facebook, to play Angry Birds, to remind us of our mum's birthday, to look up directions and check mail, to log times for our run whilst we train for the marathon, to identify songs, to check the weather, to text our mum to say sorry for forgetting to send a card and to order groceries and flowers. We even use them to make occasional phone calls.

      Mobile is everywhere: we have work phones, personal phones, iPods and tablets, old phones that last forever and new ones with erratic batteries. We have favourites and frustrations, anxiety about roaming data charges and wobbly connections on our SIMs. We get signal up a mountain and nothing in the office, 3G, 4G, no bars and odd echoes on the line to America.

      Whilst mobile phones started out as things to make calls on, they are now so much more. They are now a full media channel that we can use for entertainment, for education, for information and for communication. As the channel has emerged, so has the desire to use it, resulting in a free-for-all Darwinian marketplace of ideas where only the strong survive.

      The purpose of this book is to explore mobile learning, to examine how the technology is facilitating interactions that we never even dreamt of before. It's partly a journey to understand the technology and experience of mobile learning, partly a practical guide on how to implement it yourself and partly a look at the map of where we might go in the future.

      What do we mean by 'mobile'?

      The subject of this book is 'mobile learning', which is generally abbreviated to m-learning or just 'mobile'. But 'mobile' means many things: it means technology, as in a mobile phone or tablet, and it also means the mobile learning courses themselves, as well as being used to describe the experience of learning in this way, of experiencing 'mobile'.

      I'm interested in all of these things, in exploring what they each mean and how we can pull them together to provide a meaningful narrative of how we develop and experience mobile learning.

      It's easy to think of mobile as just being a distribution channel, like a television or a radio. We can view the devices as just conduits to push content out to learners, but this is to miss so much of the potential, potential that is only unfolding to us as we speak. People interact with mobile devices in fundamentally different ways: they are social tools used to reinforce our standing, fashion statements, aspirational decoration, sources of knowledge and power, able to make us win a pub quiz or find a pizza, but also business tools used to organise meetings, remind us of deadlines and let us speak to the boss when we're running late.

      Mobile devices transcend the traditional boundaries of our lives, crossing over between the formal spaces of work and the informal social spaces that surround it. The devices are not purely functional; they are much, much more. Just look at how many people own two and carry them around every day.

      It's important that we understand just how widely mobile has permeated our lives, how often we reach into our pocket and ready our thumbs for action. We need to recognise how it impacts on knowledge: we used to have to 'know' things, whilst now we often only need to know how to find those things out fast. Knowing how to use Google is often enough.

      As the ways we relate to and use knowledge change, so our relationships with each other evolve too. Social media are transforming what we mean by 'friendship', breaking down geographical and temporal barriers, reuniting us with distant friends and providing a constantly open window into their lives. Social and mobile are intimately linked; the social world is often facilitated by mobile technology, uptake and development of mobile technology is often driven by

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