Mobile learning and accessibility

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Mobile learning and accessibility
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How does mLearning compare with traditional
learning?
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mLearning is evil

• The keys are too small
• The screen is too small
• The fonts are too small
• The fonts are the wrong colour
• The navigation is difficult
• The software is poor
• Your learners get sterilised by microwaves

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User experience - 1
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User experience - 2
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Traditional learning is evil

• The resources are too bulky
• The activities are too limited
• The content is too narrow
• The navigation is difficult
• The work is too individualised
• Learning is too compartmentalised
• The medium is too sterile

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User experience - 3
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How does your approach influence your impacts?
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Top down mobile learning

Invest significant money

Buy significant kit
Require significant training

Develop significant protocols
Significantly adapt teaching approaches
Manage significant investment


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Top down mobile
Energy and effort
Finance procurement
Project management
IT support
Tutor
Learner
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Bottom up mobile learning
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Identify pedagogical advantage
Show staff how to do simple thing well
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Support development time creatively
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Support technical team as consultants
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Incorporate resources into assessment
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Involve learners as co-explorers
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Bottom up mobile
Energy and effort
Tutor / learner
Project management
Technical support
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Death by.

• Handout
• Whiteboard
• OHT
• PowerPoint
• VLE
• Podcast
• Vodcast
• Video etc

Embedding
Enthusiasm
Innovation
Obsession
Learner experience
Time
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How does mLearning support inclusive learning?
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mLearning offers resources that are..

• Portable
• Present
• Personal
• Private
• Preferred
• all accessed via Personal technologies

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Existing resources can be available in new ways.
Text
Web pages
Slide show
Flash cards
Number crunchers
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How to do it
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Implications for supporting disabled learners
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Straining at the leash

• Do I need a notetaker if the key points of the
  lesson are on the VLE and now on my phone?
• Do I need a scribe if I can record audio and
  photographic evidence in its place?
• How can they help me when they think BlueTooth is
  a sheep disease?

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More information

• JISC TechDis Upwardly Mobile guidance
• http//www.techdis.ac.uk/upwardlymobile
• LSN GoMobile! Publication
• http//tinyurl.com/LSN-GoMobile
• MoleShare
• www.learningtechnologies.ac.uk/moleshare/
• NIACE Mobile technology, the handheld choice
• http//www.niace.org.uk/mobiletechnology/

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A bit of inspiration from Yorkshire and
Humberhttp//inclusivity.rsc-yh.ac.uk