Pre-Conference Workshop A6
The Mobile Academy: mLearning for Education
Date Wednesday, Dec 2 Time – RoomCharlottenburg III Price: 160.00 € Status: places available
Workshop leader
Clark Quinn
Executive Director, Quinnovation, USA
Clark Quinn, Ph.D., helps organizations work smarter: aligning technology with how we think, work, and learn. He integrates creativity, cognitive science, and technology to lead development of strategic solutions including award-winning online content, educational computer games, and websites, as well as adaptive, mobile, and performance support systems. After an early academic career, Dr. Quinn has served as an executive in online and elearning initiatives and has an international reputation as a speaker and scholar, with four books on learning technology and strategy as well as numerous articles and chapters. He works through Quinnovation.
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Content
mLearning is here to stay, and educational institutions are keen to take advantage of it, but there are as many questions as there are opportunities. This workshop is designed to overview the various ways in which mobile can augment education while providing concrete tools to support moving forward. The intent is to have you ready to make decisions about mLearning at the classroom, department, and institutional levels.
Offered by the author of The Mobile Academy: mLearning for Higher Education (published by Jossey-Bass in 2012) and Designing mLearning: Tapping Into the Mobile Revolution for Organizational Performance (Pfeiffer, 2011), this workshop provides frameworks to guide the use of mobile in various capacities for learning and support. The frameworks will be supported with checklists and templates to support thinking in productive ways about how mobile can be used in class and out. We will use examples to make the concepts concrete, and discuss available tools and methods.
Topics covered include content, interactivity, and social for learning as well as administrative opportunities and implementation issues; the full gamut of ways in which mobile can be used to facilitate the learning experience. This workshop provides a solid foundation upon which to make design, development, and deployment decisions. Whether an instructor, academic, or administrator, you will leave prepared to capitalize on the mobile revolution to provide better learning outcomes.
Agenda
1. Introduction: Mobile Device Characteristics and Trends
2. Content:
- Media, Channels, and Roles
- Pedagogical Alternatives
Interactivity:
- Reflection
- Application
Coffee Break
Social: In and Out
Going Beyond: Contextualization
Administrative Opportunities
Implementation:
- Development
- Policy
Target audience
This workshop is for administrators, academics, and instructors; in fact anyone who wants to understand the real opportunities for mLearning.
Prerequisite knowledge
The audience should have a familiarity with education and learning.
Outcomes
- Understand how mLearning extends the classroom
- Prepared to design support for learners inside and outside the classroom
- Know implementation alternatives and trade-offs