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Mobile computing & Mobility in education. Amnon Dekel The Hebrew University Jerusalem ASPIRE Workshop 2011, Berlin. We are in the MOBILE AGE: . 4.6B + Mobile phones on E arth Mobile is the Main Way that people access the Internet since 2010 (1.3B)
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Mobile computing & Mobilityin education Amnon Dekel The Hebrew University Jerusalem ASPIRE Workshop 2011, Berlin
We are in the MOBILE AGE: • 4.6B+ Mobile phones on Earth • Mobile is the Main Way that people access the Internet since 2010 (1.3B) • Mobile Phones of today are POWERFUL computers! • Think STRONG desktop computer from 2002! Amnon Dekel - ASPIRE Workshop - Berlin, May 23,24 2011
2 Key Concepts: • Mobile Computing: • Computationand Networkingis available when needed in any place • Mobility: • Being able to doimportant things in different places, as per a persons needs and capabilities Amnon Dekel - ASPIRE Workshop - Berlin, May 23,24 2011
Mobile Computing enables mobility ---> Mobility in Learning & Learning Mobility • MiL: • Learning in the field, in the real world, in more relevant contexts • LM: • Learning where it is needed, by those who need it, whenthey can do it Amnon Dekel - ASPIRE Workshop - Berlin, May 23,24 2011
Mobility in learning: examples • Mobile Augmented Reality • Mobile Data Gathering • Mobile Data Mining • Mobile Geo-Local Edutainment • Mobile Social Networks • Design & Development of Mobile Services as Learning Tools Amnon Dekel - ASPIRE Workshop - Berlin, May 23,24 2011
Learning Mobility: examples • Mobile Phone enables Networking • SMSbased learning • Mobile Webbased learning • App based learning • Machine Learning Context Capture • Sensor Data (location, motion, sound) • Calendar analysis • Mobile Payment based services Amnon Dekel - ASPIRE Workshop - Berlin, May 23,24 2011
Cost of ownership and services are down • Mobile Technology is being commoditized • Cloud computing is lowering costs of development, deployment and operations --------------------------------------------------------> • New services can be ideated, prototyped and tested with a multitude of Learning Partners (K12, college students or people with a need to learn) Amnon Dekel - ASPIRE Workshop - Berlin, May 23,24 2011
Benefit for future society Using todays most ubiquitous computing platform as a learning enabler and education test bed will reap many benefits for tomorrows learners, and therefore, …for Society as a Whole. Amnon Dekel - ASPIRE Workshop - Berlin, May 23,24 2011
Thank you Amnon Dekel The Hebrew University Jerusalem amnoid@gmail.com Amnon Dekel - ASPIRE Workshop - Berlin, May 23,24 2011