Presentation given on Monday 4 April 2011 during the MobiMOOC course. An open and free course on mLearning.

1. Introductionto mLearning Inge – Ignatia – de Waard

2. Interactions in Elluminate

3. Whatwill we seetoday? A bit of back-ground Hands-on moment (postingtoposterous) 2 mobile learning projects Yourquestionsandremarks on ANY mLearning subject!

4. Starting is always a bit of chaos Introductions, gettingtoknow the format… but it is goodtobe on the move!

5. So planning is of the essence Question: whohas startedworking on their mLearning project? (survey: 51% knowswhattheywillwork on) Basic template forstarting a mLearning project canbe found here– and Judy Brown will lift all of youto the next level in Week 2 whereshewill cover planning mLearning (amongstother mLearning goodies)

6. From the survey: interest in hands-on & exchangingexperiences Hands-on: posterous: e-mail any content to a centrallocation 2 Experiences: mobile learning project in Peru ContinuedMedicalEducationforsmartphonesand basic cellphones

7. Hands-on moment: Posterous Just imagine: you have a group of learners spread around the worldandyouaskthem – without havingtobecome member of anything – to share mobile created content via simple e-mail? It works! Instantaniously! Let’sseeforourselves Please, forthosehaving access to a mobile phone (or camera equiped net/laptop or tablet pc), take a picture of whereyou are at right now (besureto put your pixels on small to save on data costs!) and mail itto: mobimooc@posterous.com Afteryou have mailedit, take a look at the MobiMOOCposterousgroup blog toseeour joint results: http://mobimooc.posterous.com/ For thosetestingitafter the session: I have reset the permissions, so I needto accept yourpostingsbeforethey are posted, but feel free totry it.

8. mLearning is about.. (Informal) peer collaboration mLearning (or eLearning) is notabouthavinganonline, accessiblerepository. mLearning is: collaboration, networking, accessingwhen most relevant Learning at anytime or in anyplacethat fits YOU Gettingyour context into the learning curve mLearning is anidealforlifelonglearningandcontinuededucation.

9. Mobile projects at ITM ITM has been developingseveralmobile solutions bothfor research andeducation(QRcodes, offline data gathering, mobile courses, mobile continuededucation...) Ourchallenges: emergingcountries, challenging environments & tiny budgets & tinyteam (only 3 peoplethat are reallyinto mLearning testinganddevelopment) Ourstrength: aninterdisciplinary, creativeeLearning team Current start-ups: mobile gis project for monitoring ticks (geolocation, real time … fun!)andaugmentedmedicallearningapp

10. Overall mLearning aims Durability Scalability Collaboration (localpeopleknow the local health situation best) Allowing user generatedcontent (integrating personal context) Authenticlearning Low cost Independent from - or at leastflexibleto - infrastructure Generic– ubiquitouswheneverpossible

11. Paradigm Break (It is no longer ‘just’ a phone) Internet Classical model sms, voice New model sms, voice, data, video, geoin REAL TIME Graphs by Ellar Llacsahuanga

13. downloading of the latest medical information

15. How to apply in low resource settings (rural area) Wifi Local Area Network VoiP, intranet websites 100Km, a pair USD 1000

16. Methods 20 physicians used individual Smartphones (Nokia N95 and iPhone), for a CME program, Oct ’09 – Jan ‘10 Wifi, solar panels and wireless router (great for creating an ad hoc wireless hotspot! E.g. if you have one computer with internet, you can turn it into a hotspot for multiple devices with a wireless router). It saves on connection costs and increases autonomy

17. CLINICAL MODULE Clinical Case (day 3) -3D movies (podcast deliver using iTunes) -Questions related with clinical case (start discussion forum Moodle) -Critical thinking Pre-test (day 1) -access LCMS ( MLE Moodle) -via email -website Conclusion of discussion (day 10) - strengthening network Summary Day 1: Pre-test with focus on a specific topic Day 3: Send Clinical cases with questions and start discussion Day 10: Conclusion of clinical cases Day 11:Summary of module (articles and review) Day 15: Post-test on the topic wifi Send summary material Website link (day 11) Post-test (day 15)

18. Tools used iClone & Moviestorm doctor/patient scenarios module revision was provided through multimedia files developed with ScreenFlow Looking at examples, we used iTunes as a repository of the podcast during course: http://itunes.apple.com/be/podcast/central-videos-audios-reach/id332290043

19. MLE Moodle A web-based platform (MLE Moodle), is offered to support the learning events, tracking students’ progresses over time Why Moodle? It is based on social constructivist idea (co-construction) After this we engaged in Mobile Moodle. Pre post test Baseline knowledge and learning outcomes were tested through mobile-based multiple choice questions issued at the beginning and end of each module

20. Challenges to tackle Lack of mobile standards (html5 on the rise with W3C mobile web initiative) Lack of interoperability of the mobile programs Relatively high investment cost: mobile devices, phone service fee, mobile IT help desk for technical problems Connectivity not assured and different per region Need more mobile theory research to really get the most out of the mobile possibilities Native apps => different approaches => time consuming (SDK’s) Augmented mobile learning is tough for limited budgets, but delivers more interactivity Real time feedback or content/context pick-up Time to find creative solutions And the many challenges we heard here … (cartoon by Nick D Kim, nearingzero.net)

21. Actions taken (later reading) The actions we tookwere multiple, let me list 7: We looked at the latest mobile phonessupportedby the national telecom companies, and we comparedtheirfunctionalities. These functionalities had toenable reading comfort; they had to permit installingcertainapplications (for picture exchange, keepingconnectedwithpeers). The devicesneededto have multimedia possibilities as we aimedtoaddress different learner skills (text, audio, video). The devicesalsoneededto have enough memory toenable big multimedia files tobestored on them. Synchronizationwith computers was necessarytoallowcheaperdownloading of new clinical modules. And last but notleast, because we wereaimingtoadd mobile social media, these media neededtobeaccessibleby the mobile devices. Afterpurchasing the devices we startedtocompare mobile social media. Those media thatcouldbeaccessedwithbothdevices, andthatoffered a mobile design werechosen. It was deemednecessarytouse a mobile platform on whichto store all the modules. So we startedto look for mobile platforms thatwerebothcheapandaccessible. Mobile Moodle was chosen, as itoffered the surplus of enablingubiquitouslearning in future projects, andbecausebothinstituteswereusingMoodlealready as a learning platform. At the same time content was beingredeveloped: gettinginteractivitygoing, deliveringbothstatic (text) and multimedia content tocaterto a variety of learner types, animationswere made forpatient/doctor conversationsimulations. Toenable easy podcast downloads, we startedusing iTunes foreducation. A facebook page was set-up toallow easy peer-to-peer information exchange. Training was givento the participants (2 days, 1 day per type of mobile device)

22. Toolsused (later reference) Skype and facebook for p2p knowledge exchange Moviestorm & iClone for animations Screenflow and iMovie for multimedia files RSS, podcast and iTunes (see examples) for retrieving material Online mobile survey software: surveygizmo MLE and iPhone.moodle.com.au Not used here, but very useful Great tool for offline mobile data gathering:Survey-To-Go we use it in field research in non-connected areas (synchronizable with computers, works offline and waits until it can transfer data).

23. Acknowledgements This work is a result of the collaboration between the eLearning teams of ITM, Antwerp and the IMTAvH, Lima B. Castillo Llaque, L. Fucay, C. Kiyan, D. Iglesias, V. Suarez, J. Echevarria Z., E. Llacsahuanga, M. Zolfo, L. Lynen, and I. de Waard. Thank you! This project was supported byREACH-Tibotec 2008, Educational Grant

24. Case 2: Creating mobile accessible CME (Continued Medical Education) CME keeps physicians on top of their speciality & if it is linked to the Telemedicine website => growing number of users

25. To tackle the CME we first looked at the mobile status of physicians We neededtoknow: - Which type of mobiles they had? (‘regular’ + smartphone) - Iftheywouldbeinterested - Whatwould make a differenceforthem as a learner

26. What physicians wanted was/is Access with their own cell phone (so it needed to be accessible with cheap and expensive phones) Getting a message pushed to them when a new CME was launched Make it easily accessible (= no long connections needed) Certification for following it! Important career wise

27. Our delivery method of choice: standardized mobile content Soit was clear: HTML + CSS: It is easy tobuild (dreamweaver or the free pagebreeze), is small in size, adaptsto the phone screen andallows pictures/visuals (youneedtoresizethemirfanview e.g.) Mobile web initiativeprovides best practices

28. Getting the CME out there: Variablephone types + e-mail for feedback One CME per month See for yourself (this combines things that went wrong): http://tinyurl.com/ITM3CME

29. Adding user friendliness & motivation Userfriendliness: - Sendingan sms when a new CME is issued (in our case using the Jeyo mobile companion); - In the CME a tinyURL is embeddedtoallowquick access to the CME (smaller url = easierto type withcellphone). Motivation: - A certificate is issuedif the learnerssuccessfully (cut off 80%) take an assessment after 6 months of CMEs (Jeyo mobile companion)

30. Feedback Advantages Theyliked the relevant information that was broughttothem Learning at theirown convenience Opened new ways of learning Theyfeltconnectedwithpeers Disadvantages Access was notensured in the field andthiscould drain the battery The screen was small forlearning (in the oldercellphone types) Without electricity the batterycan run out Graphics/tablessometimesunclear on small screens

31. Possible solutions fortackling CMEchallenges Mobile offline possibilitiesenabling multimedia courses (mini Sdcards). Mobile = mp4 conversionsoyou have any video you want. Usecheap video converter software likeAVS4you (39,95 EUR) Solar panels are already out there foreveryonetouse. Connect the mobile to a television set anduseit as a desktop forbigger screen (e.g. forthoseruralareasthat have TV-sets but no computer connection => sharing the mobile content via TV)

32. Ourdevice challenge of today Human enhancement Real timerecognition & reaction (Geo)location what we want Mobile augmentedreality Learning from: objects& humans

33. Easy mobile tools to check out Blogs Posterous.com : enablesposting via simple e-mail + youcan set-up posts tosocial media Wordpress has a fully mobile pack: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mobile-pack/ Blogger has this option as well, but no grouping feature: http://www.blogger.com/mobile-start.g Mobile layout: redesignyour blog tobe mobile accessible: http://www.mofuse.mobi/ Twitter: easy as sms and in many cases there is a specifictwitterappforyourphone: http://mobile.twitter.com/ Facebook has a mobile feature: http://m.facebook.com/home.php?_rdr Skype: Pictures Flickr : has a mobile option whichallowsyoutosimply mail pictures to the account - http://m.flickr.com/#/home Picasa for mobile: https://picasaweb.google.com/m/ Video YouTube: has a mobile option forsharing video (beware of the data transfer cost!): http://www.youtube.com/mobile Record and share video’s life (rerouted via twitter): Qik.com

34. For mobile developers The mobile W3C corner (with a free website checker toseeifyour site is mobile friendly) MobiForge: a community of mobile developers Html5 demo’s Html5 standards Just fun: Andjustbecausethey are fun – trythem on your mobile http://www.rovio.com/index.php?page=angry-birds

35. Resources A free report on geo-located mobile learning Free book on mLearning (editedby Mohamed Ally) Free book on the risks of publishing content on the Web Four free chapters on criticalpedagogy (Paulo Freire) Free bookmLearning and new pedagogies Online chapter: Bachmair, B. (2007) 'M-learning and media use in everyday life'. http://www.wlecentre.ac.uk/cms/files/occasionalpapers/mobilelearning_pachler2007.pdf The 2011 Horizon report http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf

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