Mobile learning is here to stay:Why be tied to a computer when you can spend the day where you want and learnat the same time? But mLearning isn’t just eLearning on a smaller screen. Ithas specific demands and offers unique opportunities. Are you making the mostof your mLearning? The eLearning Guild’s free eBook, Mobile Learning in Context, might inspire you to rethink your approach.
Rethink your approach
For Mobile Learning in Context, contributing editor Janet Clareyassembled a group of mobile learning thought leaders and asked for their takeon the range of mLearning topics. Each of the essays will make you consider thepossibilities of mobile learning in a whole new light. Among the eBook’shighlights:
Brenda Enders, of Enders Consulting, shares her approach for getting started withmobile. She writes about the strategy process used by the American PublicLibrary System for meeting the needs of faculty and student requests for amobile classroom app.
Helen Crompton, of Old Dominion University, writes from a historical perspective abouthow mobile learning is creating a shift in the way we teach. She provides thelearner-centered progression of pedagogies over the past five decades and arevised Bloom’s Taxonomy pyramid that focuses on what students are able to do.
John Traxler, of University of Wolverhampton, discusses about his work on a large Europeanproject developing a mobile online environment for professional development forofficials in rural local governments and shares his thoughts on the significantbarriers organizations can face in implementing mobile learning solutions.
Jason Haag, of Advanced Distributed Learning(ADL) Initiative, explores theuse of augmented reality for contextual mobile learning. Using a classingscheme from the Open University, he identifies multiple examples of augmentedreality for mobile.
Phil Cowcill and Krista Hildner, bothof Canadore College, examine how the endowed progress effect helps motivatelearners to complete training by providing rewards with value, and they suggestways to change the perception of learners and increase motivation, retention,and fun.
Inge de Waard, ofthe Open University, discusses theimplementation of her mMOOC design. She discusses practical implementations ofeLearning that focus on building mobile-supported eLearning courses thatcombine contemporary learning solutions and build networked, digitally skilledlearner communities.
Sean Bengry, of Accenture Academy, writes about the increasing momentum ofmicro-video and different approaches for creating meaningful, relevantmicro-videos that are good for your audience.
Dig into these meaty essays and downloadMobile Learning in Context today.
