Enhancing Mobile " Ubi " Learning Using Axio L/CMS

1. Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS Shalin Hai-Jew Axio Conference 2011 Sept. 28 – 29, 2011

2. Overview • Mobile learning for “ubiquitous” learning anytime-anywhere is the new hot thing. This type of learning enables learners to learn more effectively out in the field (anywhere with wireless connectivity); it also allows them to interact with smart spaces (like location-sensitive museums); and finally, it allows them to capture information from the real world and interact with their peers and instructors using location-aware devices. Axio Learning may be brought into play in a number of ways to support mobile learning, from something as simple as (1) capturing mobile learning through the manual assignment assessment tool to (2) podcasting to mobile devices through RSS-enabled folders to (3) enabling interactivity through file-uploadable message boards (with images / sound / text captured from mobile devices to (4) multi-way communications both synchronously and asynchronously through student group work, Wimba (by phone), and digital “poster sessions”. With SoftChalkLessonBuilder 7, which enables the building of mobile activities (using HTML 5, not Flash) and versioning all outputs also for mobile devices, and free apps like FourSquare (which enable real-life real-time location awareness of others in the class), plenty of types of learning may be designed and deployed through mobile devices, with the support of Axio L/CMS. This presentation will showcase how the L/CMS may support mobile learning, with a variety of learning examples from real-life. Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

3. Getting Started • Effective uses of mobile for learning? • Ideas for your own campuses for mobile learning (m-learning)? Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

4. Features of Mobile • Building to a small screen • Limited designed interactivity, often touch-screen or small keyboard / keypad • Limited complexity in terms of to-and-from messages Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

5. Why Mobile? • Popularity of devices • All-the-time carrying of personal mobile devices • Broadening the point-of-access Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

6. How is Mobile Learning Achieved? Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

7. How is Mobile Learning Achieved? (cont.) • Learning design • Planned deployment ecology • Mobile content development • Upload and storage • Deployment …and the optimal feedback loop back to the design • HTML 5 and not Adobe Flash™ Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

8. Increments of Support for Mobile Learning Using an L/CMS Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

9. L/CMS as… • Record-keeper / gradekeeper (in the Assessment Suite) • Podcast distributor to and from mobile devices • Base of operations / file-sharing and distribution tool (for digital poster sessions, field trip information sharing, portfolios, and others) • A virtual point-of-contact / interactivity in real-time and real-space space (synchronous and asynchronous) / Wimba Web conferencing / Web conferencing on mobile devices Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

10. 1. Record-keeper / gradekeeper • The manual assignment function for the integration of grades from mobile activities Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

11. 2. Podcast distributor Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

12. 3. Base of operations / file-sharing and distribution tool Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

13. 4. A virtual point-of-contact / interactivity space / live web conferencing using mobile devices • Uses of Facetime; other real-time audio-video connectivity; shared platform • Not Java-supporting currently (Wimba runs on Java) Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

14. An Authoring Tool SoftChalkLessonBuilder 7 Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

15. SoftChalkLessonBuilder 7 Mobile Activities Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

16. Mobile Activity 1: Align Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

17. Mobile Activity 2: Identify Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

18. Mobile Activity 3: Pairs Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

19. Mobile Activity 4: Presenter Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

20. Mobile Activity 5: Selection Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

21. Mobile Activity 6: Sequence Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

22. Mobile Assignment Examples Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

23. A “Law and Order” Scenario • A criminal justice professor wants to train her students in the fine arts of shadowing a target. She has told her students that between a certain time, she will walk from one location to another, and during that time, they are to shadow her. She will be paying attention to her surroundings, and if she sees any of them, they will earn a lower grade on this assignment. The students are to surreptitiously capture her activities during this time period using their mobile devices. Her job will be to elude detection and to take counter-measures against being followed. She will be using her mobile device to capture her students out in this public space as well. The students and the instructor will write up their experiences of this exercise and post these online in a message board. They will all share what they learned. Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

24. An Entomology Field Exercise • Students are going on a field trip out to the fields of Kansas. Their jobs will be to capture still photographic images of insects in their habitats. The students will have to have sharp eyes to see the insects. They’ll have to approach without scaring away the insects. Their images should be focused, have a correct white color balance, reflect the accurate size of the insect if possible, and reflect true-to-life insect behaviors in the context. The students are to capture their observations orally or textually on their mobile devices. Later, they will bring these elements together into a presentation or slideshow or podcast, and they will upload this digital recording into the online classroom for sharing. Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

25. A Public Health Walkability Exercise • Students are to explore their own neighborhood to see how friendly it is for a walking lifestyle. How close is the grocery store? The laundry shop? The local coffee shop? Are there sidewalks for strolling? How effective is the lighting at night? Are the walkways accessible (with curb cuts) and free from traffic? Are there parks and green spaces? How safe is the neighborhood at all different times of day and night and seasons? Students are to explore these issues and collect images of their experiences using their mobile device. What may be improved to make the neighborhood more walkable? Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

26. Locative Mobile Learning • Embeddedness in a location • Location-sensitive information download, augmented reality • Enhancement of a real-time, real-space experience (through sound or visuals or combinations of sounds and visuals) • Location-sensitive information capture • Location-based collaboration and cooperation and competition (putting the “mobility” into mobile learning) Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

27. Other Ideas? Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS

28. Contact Dr. Shalin Hai-Jew iTAC (Information Technology Assistance Center) 212 P Hale Library K-State 785-532-5262 (work) shalin@k-state.edu Instructional Design Open Studio (IDOS) Enhancing Mobile "Ubi" Learning Using Axio L/CMS