As a consolation, caught up with the mlearn newsletter to see how the mlearning community is progressing. The newsletter had several good overviews on mlearning. Summary of a two below:
1) Professor John Traxler (8 minutes) presents on challenges going intothe future of mlearning. Need to move into sustainable mlearning. Discussed the requirement to move into a BYO environment and the importance of providing students with skills to critically evaluate the information they will need to continually access when they leave the gated community of education. Still reluctance amongst educators, maybe in the formal, pre-tertiary sector to free students from the closed school learning management system. Etiquette in how to work with mobile phones within an educational contexts.
2) Marcus Specht, Welten Institute (16 minutes) video
Learning design / instruction design for augmented reality –
important to ensure augmented reality object is appropriate to context. Example
provided is a museum guide whereby the museum objects are connected to audio
commentary (through QR codes for instance). Use of infrared sensors to be able
to locate user so that appropriate augmented information is provided – i.e.
what is the person looking at. Vocational education example is of a head
mounted camera providing virtual instruction (e.g. virtual projected hands of
expert) on to machinery requiring maintenance or repair. Also covered wearable
technologies and their potential for mlearning.
Paper referred to:
Dimensions of Mobile Augmented Reality for Learning: A First
Inventory – 2012 - see pg. 117.
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