"A Practitioner Symposium presented by The West London Lifelong Learning Network & The College of North West London, 28th September 2011." This FREE
event focused on Mobile Learning in Further and Higher Education and most of the attendees were from London colleges. (#MobileLearn2011) This event took place at the College of North West London, Dudden Hill Lane, London, NW10 2XD.
John Cook (
@johnnigelcook) from London Met discussed the challenges of promoting active and deep learning with mobiles.
Slides found here. The focus of this talk was on the reuse of the context of one subject (urban education) in another (language learning) through a reconfiguration of the required scripts/information within the mobile device mediated augmented space for learning. Later, Carl Smith showed some example videos of augmented reality, work done by his colleagues and others.
Steve Boneham from JISC Netskills and Doug Belshaw
(JISC infoNet) presented on 'Implementing Mobile Learning in Your Institution'
(slides found here) and explained the rationale for institutional mobile learning and share some examples of good practice from the infoKit. 
One of the holy grails for mobile learning researchers is to come up with models and categorisations that enable widespread acceptance and uptake of mobile learning; models that can be contextualised but serve as an accepted framework. These range from the very general - for example, “‘permanently online’, ‘frequently online’ and offline’” (
Shrestha, et al, 2010, p.341), conceiving of the mobile phone as a ‘terminal’ (Ford & Leinonen, 2010, p.196-7), or the detailed: (
source found here)
The most engaging and interesting talk by John Traxler (@
johntraxler) explored the looming crisis of identity and direction for the mobile learning research community. The mobile learning research community is about ten years old. According Traxler, the community is now at a tipping point, a vindication, a culmination, when the work of researchers, practitioners and activists will bear fruit, when we will bring in the harvest, when we will finally address
scale,
sustainability,
equity,
blending and
embedding. The community has however worked largely within institutional contexts, positioned at the vanguard of technology enhanced learning, buying into the rhetoric of 'innovation' and working from the
top down, working mainly in
small-scale,
fixed-term subsidised projects staffed by enthusiasts. These developments took place when technology was scarce, difficult and expensive; now technology is ubiquitous, cheap and reliable and what we will see in the next ten years will not be a continuation of the trajectory defined by the previous ten years.
Later, I (
@sunnysujan) went out for a Turkish meal in Baker Street with John Moore (
@jptmoore), Dough (
@dajbelshaw), Julie Usher, Nick Dennis and Shirley. After the meal, John and I went out for a few beers.
John Cook (@johnnigelcook) from London Met discussed the challenges of promoting active and deep learning with mobiles. Slides found here. The focus of this talk was on the reuse of the context of one subject (urban education) in another (language learning) through a reconfiguration of the required scripts/information within the mobile device mediated augmented space for learning. Later, Carl Smith showed some example videos of augmented reality, work done by his colleagues and others.
Steve Boneham from JISC Netskills and Doug Belshaw (JISC infoNet) presented on 'Implementing Mobile Learning in Your Institution' (slides found here) and explained the rationale for institutional mobile learning and share some examples of good practice from the infoKit. 
One of the holy grails for mobile learning researchers is to come up with models and categorisations that enable widespread acceptance and uptake of mobile learning; models that can be contextualised but serve as an accepted framework. These range from the very general - for example, “‘permanently online’, ‘frequently online’ and offline’” (Shrestha, et al, 2010, p.341), conceiving of the mobile phone as a ‘terminal’ (Ford & Leinonen, 2010, p.196-7), or the detailed: (source found here)
The most engaging and interesting talk by John Traxler (@johntraxler) explored the looming crisis of identity and direction for the mobile learning research community. The mobile learning research community is about ten years old. According Traxler, the community is now at a tipping point, a vindication, a culmination, when the work of researchers, practitioners and activists will bear fruit, when we will bring in the harvest, when we will finally address scale, sustainability, equity, blending and embedding. The community has however worked largely within institutional contexts, positioned at the vanguard of technology enhanced learning, buying into the rhetoric of 'innovation' and working from the top down, working mainly in small-scale, fixed-term subsidised projects staffed by enthusiasts. These developments took place when technology was scarce, difficult and expensive; now technology is ubiquitous, cheap and reliable and what we will see in the next ten years will not be a continuation of the trajectory defined by the previous ten years.
Later, I (@sunnysujan) went out for a Turkish meal in Baker Street with John Moore (@jptmoore), Dough (@dajbelshaw), Julie Usher, Nick Dennis and Shirley. After the meal, John and I went out for a few beers.
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