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The Challenges of Developing Mobile Learning in Humanities, Languages, and Social Sciences: tales from a lonely explorer…. Dr Jon Bernardes, PL in Sociology, Teaching Fellow, and TSL Coordinator, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences.

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  1. The Challenges of Developing Mobile Learning in Humanities, Languages, and Social Sciences: tales from a lonely explorer… Dr Jon Bernardes, PL in Sociology, Teaching Fellow, and TSL Coordinator, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences. Workshop – Developing Mobile Learning – University of Wolverhampton, 24th November 2005

  2. Already failed?? • Resist adoption of any technology • Colleagues are only cautiously supporting VLE, • Developing enthusiasm for mobile learning seems to be more than “one step too far”. • I hope to raise a series of questions which may help me (and perhaps you) see some path ahead.

  3. Own Position • Enthusiastic digital immigrant • IPAQ and other PDAs: Outlook (Calendar, Contacts, some email), music, GPS, Word, Excel etc (native in Mobile 5.0). • NOT a techie - TSL, VLE, RLOs, Video etc. • XDA Exec – hope 3G is working on O2! • Observation of students - mobile phones – streamed video and TV Channels.

  4. Find role Frustrating • Brand new Information Technology Building….. • Not listening to what experienced practitioners had to say. • Note “NetSupport” Classroom software does have a mobile plug-in and should support smart phones and PDAs

  5. Mobile devices in the near future may offer the kind of power and communication to transform higher education • traditional pedagogical techniques? • rooming commitments, attendance issues, participation issues leads to focus upon trying to have the greatest impact upon learning in a limited class contact time. • Highly interactive styles of learning and teaching rely upon amount of prior work and preparation (attach assessment to get it done).

  6. Interactive styles that may suit mobile learning – demos? • ELectures – text and MCQs and exercises via VLE • Vlectures – video and MCQs and exercises via VLE • Portfolios – web folios – reflective thought and task completion – shared and unshared • (demo?).

  7. A range of key challenges over next 5 – 10 years. • Doing what I do now in different ways. • How do we convince the digital natives or Google generation? • How do we convince the digital immigrants or aliens in a strange land?

  8. There are a range of parties and issues here to be addressed: • 1. IT infrastructure; • 2. Estates infrastructure: • 3. IT Services/Computer Centre; • 4. Teaching colleagues: • 5. Senior Management: • 6. Public virtual ‘face’ of institution: teams engaged in VLE work and web page work.

  9. 1. IT Infrastructure; • QUESTION: what kind of information technology infrastructure do we need in a modern university to support mobile learning?

  10. 2. Estates Infrastructure: • QUESTION: what kind of estate infrastructure do we need to support mobile learning; what kind of buildings and rooms are appropriate for those bits of the learning that we don't move to mobile devices?

  11. 3. IT Services or Computer Centre; • QUESTION: what do we have to do to the Computer Centre or IT Services to bring them on side to support mobile learning?

  12. 4. Teaching Colleagues: • QUESTION: what kinds of things can we offer teaching colleagues to encourage them to spend yet more of their personal time on understanding mobile learning??

  13. 5. Senior Management: • QUESTION: what kind of policy or training initiative or induction programme would encourage senior staff to recognise mobile learning as one of the potential futures for higher education?

  14. 6. Public virtual ‘face’ of institution: teams engaged in VLE work and web page work. • QUESTION: do we need to encourage Web developers and others to recognise the needs of mobile learning or will this emerge in the near future anyway?

  15. Conclude – My non-tech thoughts on • Devices – Mini laptop, big Smart phones, or virtual input/output? • Input – speech to text • Display – roll up screens, projection? • OS – if only windows mobile 5.00 were finished and more usable software were available.

  16. Further Information • Do not hesitate to contact me: • J.Bernardes@wlv.ac.uk

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