Campus in a Pocket: Learning Any Time, Any Place

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Campus in a Pocket Learning Any Time, Any
Place

• CCME, 20 February 2008

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Models of Good Practice

• Seven Principles Model
• Student-Faculty Contact
• Student-Student Cooperation
• Active Learning
• Prompt Feedback
• Time on Task
• Communicate of High Expectation
• Accommodate Diverse Learning Styles
• - Chickering and Gamson, 1991

• Some Traditional Pedagogical Tools
• Syllabi
• Gradebooks
• Assignments

• Deweys Model
• Inquiry
• Communication
• Construction
• Expression
• - John Dewey, 1956

• Other Educational Models
• Critical Thinking
• Constructivist Learning
• Problem, Project-Based Learning

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Presenters

• Betty Keese
• Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education
  Support (DANTES)
• Marc Churchwell
• University of West Florida
• Robert J. Rosenbalm
• Dallas TeleCollege
• Melissa Fleischmann
• Hezel Associates

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AnytimeAnywhere Mobile Distance Learning
University of West Florida Council of College and
Military Educators February 20, 2008 Marc
Churchwell Student Support Specialist University
of West Florida
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Mobile Distance Learning
Purpose Provide an end-to-end mobile learning
system for military personnel to participate in
education courses where ever they may be.
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An End-to-End Solution
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PDA Mobile Learning Beta Test

• Programs offered
• Undergraduate certificate in Technology Systems
  Support.
• 5 Courses (18 semester credit hours)
• Graduate certificate in Human Performance
  Technology
• 4 Courses (12 semester credit hours)

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PDA Beta Test Design

• Support military students who require flexibility
  to support their location, schedule, and
  educational goals.
• Assumes students with limited or no Internet
  access.
• Eligibility Military (Active, Reserve, National
  Guard), DoD civilian employees
• Tuition/fees Eligible for out-of-state tuition
  waiver
• Equipment provided by UWF

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Student Support
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PDA Program Trends

• Academic performance similar to students taking
  non-PDA versions of the courses.
• No academic failures to date.
• Students like having online access to same
  course material as is on the PDA.
• Some prefer ease of reading/maneuvering through
  the online material.
• Monthly start dates not tied to traditional
  academic terms are appealing to students.
• Aids coordination with deployment schedules.
• Small number of students enrolled but diverse
  group.
• 47 female, 53 male
• Broad range of rank/pay grades Officers (0-3 to
  0-6), enlisted (E-5 to E-9), and DoD employees.
• Variety of work situations Shipboard (surface
  ships), ashore, overseas

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PDA Program Trends

• Graduate students progressing better than
  undergraduates.
• Potential reasons
• Graduate students have more experience and tend
  to have higher motivation.
• Undergraduate students taking their first
  distance learning course (all current enrollees)
  often have time management problems.
• Key beta test design requirement assumed
  students might have no Internet connectivity.
• External motivation stimuli (reminders) not
  initially built into process.
• Planned/unplanned deployments/PCS.

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PDA Program Trends

• Periodic broadcast email implemented using
  universitys customer relationship management
  (CRM) for all mobile learning students in the
  beta test.
• Commercial off-the-shelf consumer hardware
  performing well in students environments.
• Hardened equipment not necessary.

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AnywhereAnytime Mobile Learning
Questions?
Student Support Specialist Marc
Churchwell pda_at_uwf.edu 1-850-473-7309
(local) or 1-888-529-1823 (toll free)
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Robert J. Rosenbalm Director, Marketing
Communication Rrosenbalm_at_dcccd.edu
Dallas TeleCollege Dallas County Community
College District
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An Examination of HandheldDevices in Higher
Education

• Hezel Associates, LLC
• On behalf of
• Defense Activity for Nontraditional Education
  Support (DANTES)
• February 2008

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Study Components

• Survey of selected institutions
• Considered F2F, online, and handheld course
  completion rates as well as qualitative data
• Addressed the possibility of whether the use of
  one delivery mode versus the others led to
  differing results
• Compared and contrasted the physical attributes
  of iPods and PDAs in the delivery of courses and
  identify constraints and considerations in their
  design
• Literature Review
• Findings are preliminary

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Survey Results

• Limited response, limited tracking
• Preliminary, limited
• Suggest further study
• Indicated formal literature review

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Scholarly Contexts

• Applied research into learning outcomes, pedagogy
  or cognition
• Theoretical research into learning outcomes,
  pedagogy or cognition
• Applied/theoretical related to human computer
  intergace
• Industry oriented research

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Applied Research

• Focuses K-12 or Industry trends
• 80 of public universities and 90 of private
  universities use some form of m-learning
• Need for new data is great
• because of lack of rigorous study
• Swett, C. (2002, October). College students use
  of mobile wireless-internet connections becomes
  more common. Knight Ridder Tribune Business News

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Theoretical Research

• Links a discussion of the impact of wireless and
  handheld technologies upon teaching and learning
  to theories about cognition or learning style
• Large volume of theory
• available

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Human-Computer Interface Studies

• ACMs SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer
  Human Interaction)
• A key concept here is affordances, to do with
  how objects are designed and how their design
  relates to their usage
• Multiple cross applications to industry

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Future Research Directions

• More rigorous experimental research needed
• Quantitative, in-depth qualitative, and
  cross-disciplinary studies of handheld devices
  and their role in learning
• The three major branches of thought (cognition,
  human-computer interface studies, and teaching
  and learning) will thus benefit greatly from
  substantive and systematic research on m-learning
  in post-secondary contexts
• A systematic analysis of costs associated with
  mobile devices would also be useful

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Hezel Associates
731 James Street, Suite 300Syracuse, NY 13203
315-422-3512 x 214 office [phone]
direct www.hezel.com Melissa Fleischmann
Strategic Analyst, Higher Education Melissa_at_hezel
.com
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• Questions or Comments?