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27 Mayıs 2011 Cuma

Video on Mobile Learning

Sharing videos online as a «cultural space of participation» (Müller, 2009, p. 136)can be understood as collaborative production. It often means to capture glimpses, moments and personal experiences and to provide them to relevant others with the least technical obstacles. As David Buckingham puts it with reference to
taking videos in classrooms:
Set against the tendency towards individualization, group work needs to be
perceived as a matter of mutual self-interest: students need to recognize
that only by pooling resources, expertise and ideas can they get the job done.
(Buckingham, 2003, p. 187)

More generally Wolf (2001, p. 199) presents a hierarchical model for participative learning in online communities.

Create: a basic element of a constructivist learning environment is to allow learners to create their own contents. By creating an external representation they make parts of their internal world model explicit.

Construct: instead of accumulating unrelated bits of knowledge, students need to construct a deeper structure connecting their own and other students’ representations. They should identify parallels, connections, dependencies, and conclusions as well as omissions, contradictions, or errors.

Communicate: a central functional element of teaching-learning processes is the exchange of information, knowledge, experiences, opinions and attitudes between the learners as well as between the learners and the teacher. This can happen within a conversation but it is also possible to use other media such as a text, an illustration, a physical model, or an outline – public entities in the sense of Papert (1991). As shown in Figure 1, the curved arrows symbolize that communication processes depend on an active intake instead of a passive input.
Cooperate: learning is a process highly dependent on the willingness of the interaction partners to help each other. Asking for and receiving answers, help or guidance is a central learning activity. Cooperation can also mean to take over co-responsibility for other students’ learning.

Collaborate: Collaboration means that two or more persons are jointly working to solve a problem or produce some entity, shouldering the responsibility for the result together. Both success and failure will be attributed to all members involved in collaboration.

Ref: Karsten D. Wolf ,K.,D & Rummler,K.(2011). Mobile Learning with Videos in Online Communities: The example of draufhaber.tv. Themenheft Nr. 19: Mobile Learning in Widening Contexts: Concepts and Cases

26 Mayıs 2011 Perşembe

Informal, personalized, situated mobile learning

In mobile learning interaction remains significant, but with intensified frequency and flexibility. Through mobile-accessible systems, learners can gain more freedom to study according to their own needs
and preferences. Paulson (1993) listed six dimensions of freedom: space, time, pace, media, access, and content. To this, Anderson (2008) added f reedom of relationship. Mobile learning complements all seven
dimensions, potentially making it easier to choose how and when to interact. Furthermore, cellular telephones, in particular, can enhance social and emotional presence and lead to a sense of ambient co-presence,the sense of continuous availability (Chayko, 2008). Indeed, learners can even suffer from too much contact and loss of privacy.
Ref: Koole,M.; McQuilkin,J.,L.& Ally,M. (2010).Mobile Learning in Distance Education: Utility or Futility?Journal of Distance Education. 24/2.p. 59-82

TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN MOBILE LEARNING

The continuous improvement in handheld devices technologies has led to a new learning paradigm called
mobile learning which involves the delivery of learning contents to learners utilizing mobile computing devices.
Handheld devices, however, have constraints which limit their use for effective learning. Towards improving the effectiveness of mobile learning is a new mobile learning model proposed by Shih on which instructional designs for mobile learning can be based to facilitate mobile learning design and to achieve better mobile learning outcomes (Yushin E. Shih & Dennis Mills, 2007). Shih’s model is based on Graphical User Interface (GUI).

Proposed enhanced Shih’s model
The proposed enhanced Shih’s mobile learning model cycle includes:
(1) Sending a multimedia message to mobile phones to trigger and motivate learners;
(2) Searching the Web for relating information by using embedded hyperlinks (URLs) in the message
received or;
(3) Searching the online library for e-books and audio books on the subject of the message using
collaborative filtering algorithm;
(4) Discussing with learning peers by text, voice, picture or video messaging;
(5) Producing a digital story telling of what they learn by audio or video diary;
(6) Applying what they learn in the simulated environment such as online educational gaming;
(7) Posting and reading of testimonials about positive learning outcomes.

The continuous improvement in the capabilities and processing powers of mobile devices continues to shape
the way we do things. One of the areas that this improvement has affected is teaching and learning.
Mobile learning represents exciting new frontiers in education and pedagogy. With the features of “wearable”
computing and multimedia content delivery via mobile technologies, mobile learning becomes feasible and offers new benefits to instructors and learners (Rashmi Sinha, 2005).

Wireless network technologies like Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave
Access (WiMAX) and Third Generation (3G) provide the enablement for ubiquitous learning (u-learning) and the availability of handheld devices and Personal Data Assistants (PDAs) pave the way for mobile learners

Mobile communications are no longer restricted to companies that can afford large investment in hardware or
specialized software. Individuals now have easy and inexpensive access to mobile telephony and the cost of
mobile access to the Internet is steadily reducing (Kristine Peters, 2007).
Ref.: Moses,O.,O,(2008). Improving mobile learning with enhanced Shih’s model of mobile learning.US-China Education Review.5/11.p. 22-28

25 Mayıs 2011 Çarşamba

Technology Integration Matrix

24 Mayıs 2011 Salı

Here I want to share an article about the AR

http://www.oamk.fi/hankkeet/moko/docs/woodward_charles.pdf