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The future of mobile learning: Implications for education

The future of mobile learning: Implications for education. Dr Madanmohan Rao Research Projects Director, MobileMonday Editor, The KM Chronicles http://twitter.com/MadanRao madan@techsparks.com. Recommendations. Promote innovation: institutional, curricular

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The future of mobile learning: Implications for education

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  1. The future of mobile learning: Implications for education Dr MadanmohanRao Research Projects Director, MobileMonday Editor, The KM Chronicles http://twitter.com/MadanRaomadan@techsparks.com

  2. Recommendations • Promote innovation: institutional, curricular • Promote startups, entrepreneurship in edTech • Innovation movements: Startup Weekend • Innovation networks: MobileMonday • Innovation awards: WSA, mBillionth • Government-private alliances: Startup Village (India) • Government-academic alliances: e27 (Singapore) • Inter-governmental alliances: Startup Chile

  3. What is unique about mobile innovation? • Consumer/citizen centric • New culture • Innovations: low entry threshold, immediate global distribution, immediate global payment (rise of the ‘bedroom programmer’) • New innovation models • Reverse innovation, lateral innovation • Global innovator networks, awards, incubators

  4. The Knowledge Journey • Existing knowledge • Traditional knowledge • Organisational knowledge • New knowledge • Innovation in organisations • Startups/entrepreneurship

  5. The “8 Cs” of the Knowledge Era • Connectivity • Content • Community • Culture • Capacity • Cooperation • Commerce • Capital

  6. New Language of Digital Media! • Tweeple, tweetups, twitterverse • Textmate • Flirtextatious • ObseSMSed • Textiety, text addict • The Golden Age of App-ortunity!

  7. Education and Mobile: Challenges • Mobile media fatigue • Need to move from ‘busy’ metrics to ‘engaged’ metrics • Going beyond tactical benefits to strategic benefits • Moving from ‘digital education’ to ‘better education’

  8. Metrics: Assessing Impacts of m-Learning • Activity metrics • Process metrics • Knowledge metrics • People metrics • Organisational metrics

  9. Educational Transformation: Startups and Solutions • Gaming, gamification • Micro-narrative, micro-learning • Crowdsourcing • Coaching classes: learning paths • School/campus management software, cloud • Interactive e-books • Test preparation • Curricular + contextual knowledge

  10. The New Wave: Startups in m-Learning • BrainNook • Helps children develop Math and English skills while being immersed in an online game experience • DreamNotion • Performance incentives for students in coaching classes • Foradian Technologies • School/campus management software

  11. The New Wave: Startups in m-Learning • Harnesstouch • Cloud-based platform for educational content • MangoReader • MangoBooks: read, comment, take notes, answer quizzes, search, look up dictionary and share with friends • Oliveboard • Individualised test preparation material

  12. The New Wave: Startups in m-Learning • Redbytes Software • TinyTapps: mobile solutions for kids in the 2-6 age group • SHArP Edge Learning • Integration of course material with real-life knowledge/activities

  13. Examples from South Asia: mBillionth Awards • ILFS/Sparsh • Kisan Sanchar • BBC Janala • NIOS Online • CLT e-Patshala • M-Pustak

  14. Global Winners: World Summit Awards-Mobile • KnowledgePulsewww.knowledgepulse.com • Push e-learning solution, allowing users to integrate learning into their daily routines. Learning cards enable easy content authoring, administration • Project Noah www.projectnoah.org • Explore and document wildlife via mobile apps, plugged into a community of citizen scientists around the world

  15. Converging Theories Interaction Design Mass Media Cultivation, Gatekeepers, Structural flows of international news, Agenda-setting Network power proportional to # of members, Telecom/broadband density correlates with GDP Propaganda, Influence, Framing/de-coding, Mobilisation/confrontation, “Foreign factor” Manuel Castells: two-way “mass self-communication”, Compressor/accelerator/ catalyst/amplifier, Tipping point Information design Media reach v/s richness Taxonomy, ontology, folksonomy Usability, testing; localisation

  16. Knowledge Management and Learning: Typology • Embodied to embodied knowledge (sharing experiences and mental models, eg. apprenticeship) • Embodied to represented (eg. cookery books) • Represented to represented (eg. formal education, corporate universities) • Represented to embodied (internalization)

  17. Knowledge Transfer and Learning • Serial transfer • Near transfer • Far transfer • Strategic transfer • Expert transfer

  18. Challenges for Mobile Startups • Discovery, stickiness, monetisation • Investment: scale, valuation • Tapping new markets: globalisation, localisation • Understanding different ecosystems • Peer validation, industry validation

  19. Questions? Email: madan@techsparks.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/MadanRao Blogs: http://mobile.techsparks.com

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