Short presentation that was used to start a discussion on new educational technologies and approaches for ICT4D. Given for the Deutsche Welle Akademie (DW Akademie), which offers media training for journalists and activists around the world.

1. eLearning & ICT4D
knowledge exchange
Inge (Ignatia) de Waard

2. ICT4D changes:
global influences
• Emergent countries versus developing countries shift in
global North/South
• War in all forms and shapes
• Social media coverage: peer media / activism
• Natural disasters (rise climate change)
• Health (globalisation, multinational interest)

3. ICT4D changes:
contemporary online learning
• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC): more Web
oriented (Learning Management Systems - LMS)
• Mobile learning: mobile penetration and mobile
internet access

4. Global MOOC map

5. Global mobile learning
http://businesstech.co.za/news/mobile/44111/global-mobile-penetration-rates-revealed/
http://itu4u.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/does-almost-everyone-have-a-phone/

6. Mobile first?

7. Some mobile data
In Transforming learning through
mEducation it is predicted that
mEducation will be a $70 Billion
market opportunity by 2020.
mHealth is a massive, growing market,
GSMA-PwC research predicts that the
growth of the mobile health market
will lead to a global revenue
opportunity of US$23 billion by 2017.
This includes $6.9 billion in Europe,
$6.8 billion in Asia, $6.5 billion in
North Americas, $1.6 billion in Latin
America, and $1.2 billion in Africa.

8. Mobile devices are more than a computer
(Some) mobile devices have the ability to
• Measure, analyse & produce data
(sensors)
• send relevant data to editors/reviewers
• offer advice as content deliverers
• AND they can be embedded in any
context , either institutional or personal.
ALL mobile devices are connected for
communication purposes

9. What is so specific about mProjects?
• Human challenges
– Digital skills
– Need: motivation and willingness
– Workload
– Security – personal / Censorship - regional
• Design challenges:
– Screen Size(s)
– User-friendliness (keep the clicks down to … 1 )
– A mobile friendly learning/content platform
– Different content and content sizes (download, time available…)
• IT challenges
– BYOD or not?
– Security & privacy?
– Synchronization with other IT architecture

10. Consider multiple learning options
mLearning
• Just-in-time learning: what you need, when you really need it
• Authentic learning: in the field
• Learning anywhere and anytime
• Contextualized learning: in your setting
• Personalized and collaborative learning
• Multimedia carry-on (learner preference: visual, audio, text…)
• Augmented learning
• Gamification
• Time management (when you can)
MOOC’s and social media
• Flipped classroom
• New pedagogies: building on peer knowledge exchange
• Increased knowledge production
• Open Educational Resources (OER).
mLearning and social media:
• Connected throughout the day
• Connected in your field of preference/expertise
• Content from the context

11. Options with MOOC
fitting developing regions
• Open Educational Resources
• MOOC trajectories: continued professional
development, non-formal certification, access
• Digitalizing personal contexts, getting knowledge from
the crowd

12. Contemplating OER content
OER saves money, demands time & critical eyes:
• YouTube lectures on topic (mobile but size?
Cost?)
• Creative Commons pictures / your pictures?
• Remixing of OER (Licensing!)
• Quality assurance of OER?

13. As a learner in this Age
You need to be connected and engaged:
• Networked and Social learning
• Personal Learning Management skills
• Personal Learning Network
• Digital skills

14. MOOC and mobile challenges
• Language (dominant English)
• Cultural sensitivities (Global North direct
and indirect represented in OER)
• Digital skills of all parties
• Digital divide
• Trust (content, propaganda,
representation)
• Best learning approaches are only partially
known
• Teachers / trainers / activist’s development
• Censorship of social media / peer media
• Digital safety / mobile = personal

15. Experts in the mobile network
Very small part of what is done, but with faces

16. Policy development in developing
regions & conflict areas (Gaza, N-Irak)
Ethics
Humans
John Traxler: specialized in training policy
implementation
Context
Participation
Policy
Future

17. Deep rural basic education
participatory roll out
participation
Cofimvaba
sustainabilit
y
Educational
tech
Full
infrastructu
re
Adele Botha (part of CSIR team): rolling out tablets
– teachers/trainers first, pupils second (change
management). Holistic approach in South Africa.

18. Gender realities in mobile learning
• Ronda Zelezny-Green,
expert in gender and
mobile (GSMA gender)
Context
Personal
Private
Gender
empowerment
Cultural
diversity

19. Refugee camps
Need
Context
Safety
Restoring
community
Trust
Barbara Moser-Mercer experience in setting up online
learning (MOOC, mobile) in challenging areas. Article
Learning Hub in refugee camp (Coursera)

20. Natural disaster / disaster readiness
Innovati
on
Need
All regions
Infrastructure
Support
Context
David Metcalf involved in mobile readiness and
rebuilding community

21. Possible useful documents

23. Download the start-a-MOOC template
• More practical questions you want to reflect
upon prior to setting up a MOOC: e.g. NEED?
• Document available here (Google drive doc, so
you need to sign in with Yahoo, FB)

24. Starting a mobile project
5 core elements:
• 1. What is the goal of the mobile project?.
2. Get all the stakeholders involved.
3. What are your planned participant dynamics (peer-to-peer, patient
monitoring, patient guidance, data analysis…).
4. What is the (mobile) infrastructure like in the target area you will be
rolling out your project?
5. What is the mobile situation for your target audience?
Knowing the above steps, you can get more practical:
• 6. Security can be an issue (ethical issues, privacy of health records…)
7. What will be the core devices you will cater for? BYOD or not?
8. How will you design the content or the app? (Authoring tools or
programming or social media…?)
9. Which strategies / existing platforms do you have for mobile content
delivery ?
10. What is a mobile content user allowed to do? User policies?

25. Mobile basics
More on what to consider when contemplating mLearning can be
viewed here
http://www.slideshare.net/ignatia/durable-and-scalable-mlearning-drilldown
A more complete overview on the different aspects of starting a
mobile project
http://www.slideshare.net/ignatia/planning-mlearning-project

26. Let’s talk: questions, networking…
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