Social Sciences Mobile Learning Day - the Survey

The Open University's Institute of Educational Technology

the Survey…

Mobile Learning Day, 22 Feb. 2012


Who are you?

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What do you use?

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What do you know about..

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What would you like to learn?

Mobile VLE Mobile Library eBooks Location Based Games

Social-Mobile Learning

Mobile Learning and Google Apps

Design for Mobile Learning

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What would like to learn about?• I don't know what I don't know.• Enhanced awareness of what is happening in this area.• Designing eBooks that can incorporate multimedia elements• When will there be a Moodle Android/Apple app similar to the Firstclass one?• Pedagogical issues• I'd like to see examples of mobile teaching and, crucially, evaluations of the learning

achieved by students • A sense of timescale of introduction into OU teaching• State of thinking about producing for both qualification area and public use (i.e beyond

the walls of OU)"• How to 'join it up' with (a) interactivity (b) special educational needs.• What is happening for our students studying in prisons? • What students want from it.• Apart from anything else I would need more knowledge about how the technology works.


How would you use it?• Keeping in contact with students etc via email. Being able to provide links to key

resources. Online forums...• In a way that supports students and actually enhances their learning rather than just

using it because it's there.• I am not thinking of using this directly myself - but keen to show demonstrate to and

encourage my ALs to think of this.• it's not so much mobile as multimedia that I'm interested in... am attending to learn about

particular capabilities of mobile technologies.• By integrating different learning components - I want to read an eBook that has

embedded links through to videos, interactive pages and other resources - and an ETMA system that is properly online (via a cloud), allowing for submission, marking and monitoring to be done in one place.

• Only in so far as those students without mobile technology can access the same inforemation and opportunities as those students with mobile technology (unless we provide them with the equipment!)

• Delivery mechanism for sure, but maybe can see applications for students gathering data / content for discussion / sharing.


How would you use it?• In case of smart phones, demand driven - these have small screens and would not

seem to be an ideal way to access teaching materials, but if students want to access this way then we should enable this and try to minimise the limitations – e.g. reducing words on page, making navigation easier.

• Tablets and laptops are just alternative hardware for accessing web-based and intranet materials, so hopefully well-designed web-based content is equally accessible regardless of the hardware used."

• It would be interesting to learn how mobile technology can be used in teaching to help me support the academics on modules I work on.

• I'm sure I might be useful for students to be able to access the website and on line materials whilst on the move. For example, we've students already asking why our eBooks are not Kindle compatible, whether voice recognition software could be used with out eBooks so that they can listen to them, and why they are not 'allowed' to download the video material and can only view this streamed online.

• I would be interested to find out possibilities where mobile learning can add something real in terms of flexibility/ease of access for students in a way that doesn't degrade more traditional (internet) provisions.


How would you use it?• I don't have any ambitions of this kind at present and I am not a technology enthusiast.

However, I do know that this kind of learning is becoming more important, and therefore I ought to know more about it, and possibly to make use of it in the future. I do have concerns about exclusion, since although many students may be enthusiastic about it, many are not at all.

• Not sure of possibilities at present but I imagine on a basic level that thing such as TMA reminders would be useful.


examples of how you used it?• I use the laptop all the time, I suppose this counts: e.g.

for online forums with student groups, group emails containing important teaching points...

• I've created apps, iTunesU content and YouTube content.

• No, not in my area. However, I can see that for modules with field work, mobiles could be actively used e.g. to take and upload photos, make contemporaneous notes.

• The only example I can think of is that I used my laptop for forum moderating.

• None so far (other than checking forum messages).


Barriers / concerns / worries?• I don't think social networks are appropriate for tutor-student contact. • Exclusion: prison students, old age, DAR students.• Pedagogical concerns: The potential of 'shallow' rather than 'deep' learning.• Having the necessary skills to do this,• Aching eyes, erratic wireless connection (my office can't pick up the OU wireless

system!), small screens, kindle does images horribly, supporting Apple rather than more open-access systems

• Even a 3g connection is usually painfully slow for many applications, so mobile devices really still require WiFi... which severly limits the extent to which they are mobile.

• Boundaries: particularly in the case of social networking i.e. students contacting you to be a friend on FB

• I don't have suitable equipment or a budget to buy it• students not arrived at this in sufficient numbers


Barriers / concerns / worries?• I use a smart phone to do web searches, read emails and it is fine in many cases.

However, using a fiddly email system like the OU's OWA system and typing replies is laborious compared with using, say, a laptop. The teaching materials may have to be compromised to fit with the limitations of the medium (vis. Phones).

• Student access to devices/internet is a concern of many of FELS academics• That then display on my mobile doesn't allow you to navigate as efficiently as a laptop.• No, as long as this is an alternative and not a 'must' for all students.• Currently I use my laptop for research and teaching, but I don't know very much about

using smartphones.• Security of any data that's stored or transmitted• That making module material compatible with mobile devices will restrict what we are

able to write/provide to students in other media. • Lack of technological knowledge and enthusiasm on the part of students; lack of access

to necessary devices on the part of students; possible detriment to face to face and telephone provision; use of technology for sake of it rather than for pedagogical reasons; lack of own technological knowledge and enthusiasm as outlined above; limitations of current technology.


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