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- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Mobile devices have become ubiquitous and offer many new possibilities for learning. Moodle, when combined with a mobile device, opens up a new world of possibilities to teachers, instructors, and training professionals to develop their courses. The learning experience can be hugely improved by playing to the strengths of mobile devices, and Moodle for Mobile Learning helps you do just that."Moodle for Mobile Learning" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with ideas and step-by-step exercises that will help you leverage the features of mobile devices in your Moodle course designs. It also aims at providing you with hands-on knowledge in creating mlearning courses so that you can create your own effective mobile learning interactions.Looking at the underlying theory of mobile learning, "Moodle for Mobile Learning" aims to enable you to apply this to course design using Moodle. Organized into key sectors including schools, further and higher education, and workplace learning, this book will take you through a number of clear, practical recipes that will help you to take advantage of mobile technology in your Moodle course design.You will learn how to develop your mobile learning strategy and whether to use a mobile friendly Moodle theme or a Moodle mobile app to deliver your strategy. There are certain types of learning activities that are perfectly suited to mobile delivery. We look at delivering podcasts, engaging with social media, setting up photo, video and audio assignments, setting up eBook and App libraries, uploading audio assignment feedback, submitting reflective logs, using chat and messaging tools, using web conferencing and much more.Mobile devices already form the backbone of your learners' daily lives. If you want to use Moodle to bring those devices into the learning process, then this is the book for you.
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Moodle for Mobile Learning
Moodle for Mobile Learning
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Author
Mark Aberdour
Reviewers
Anthony Borrow, S.J.
Silvina Paola Hillar
Ben Reynolds
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About the Author
Mark Aberdour is Head of Learning Platforms at UK learning technologies company, Epic. He has over 15 years of experience in software engineering, with professional roles in software testing, learning platforms development, and open source services delivery.
Mark has worked on over one hundred Moodle LMS and other learning technology implementation projects across a wide range of sectors, including healthcare, defense, retail, finance, engineering, automotive, higher and further education, and local and central government. Most of this has been with Epic, an industry leader in e-learning content, mobile learning solutions, and learning management systems implementation. Epic has led the way on mobile learning in workplace learning and development, hence Mark's focus on bringing mobile and Moodle together.
Mark was an early contributor to the original Bootstrap theme for Moodle and is credited as one of the founding team that built the Clean theme in Moodle 2.5, which is based on Bootstrap. Mark is a regular speaker at UK learning and development conferences, and presented at the UK and Ireland MoodleMoots in 2012 and 2013. He is also one of the founders of the MoodleBrighton user group, which meets monthly in Brighton, UK.
Acknowledgments
A huge debt of gratitude is owed to all of my colleagues at Epic. When I came back to the company in 2011, I had zero previous exposure to mobile learning, and the teams at Epic supported me on a huge learning curve with regards to what mobile learning is all about. With particular regards to this book, I would like to thank Imogen Casebourne and Ishmael Burdeau for initial ideas for content, and the wider Platforms and Mobile teams for their constant stream of inspiration and new ideas for what we can do with Moodle and mobile learning. I would also like to thank the project managers and sales and marketing team for chasing down permissions for the case studies.
I also owe thanks to a number of people for their assistance in writing this book:
Gavin Henrick for his sound advice on publishing a Moodle book based on the times he has done this himself.
Stuart Lamour, Carol Shergold, and Paulo Oprandi from the University of Sussex e-learning team for their fascinating insights and passion for improving Moodle's user experience and responsive design, much of which has improved my thinking and helped shape this book.
Bas Brands, Stuart Lamour, and David Scotson for their amazing work on the initial Bootstrap theme for Moodle, a project to which I am immensely proud to have contributed and to have seen make it into Moodle Core.
For general advice and conversations about mobile learning and Moodle during the writing of this book: Craig Taylor, Lesley Price, Nitin Parmar, Ross McKenzie, John Foord, Dan Jeffries, Lewis Carr, and Rob Englebright.
To my reviewers, whose valuable feedback and supportive comments lifted my spirits at the end of the laborious writing process.
And finally to my wife Rachel for putting up with my long nights while I was writing this book. And to my children Molly, George, and Cooper for sleeping soundly throughout. Love to you all.
About the Reviewers
Anthony Borrow, S.J. is a Jesuit of the New Orleans Province who has been active in the Moodle community since 2005. Anthony has an MA in Counseling from Saint Louis University and a Masters of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. Anthony has worked on the design and implementation of various database systems since 1992.
Anthony serves the Moodle community as plugins facilitator. In that role, Anthony has presented at various MoodleMoots across the United States, in Australia, and at the iMoot. Anthony has taught at Dallas Jesuit College Preparatory and Cristo Rey Jesuit in Houston, Texas. He provides technical advice to the Jesuit Virtual Learning Academy (http://jvla.org/). Anthony is currently serving as Associate Pastor of Immaculate Conception Church (http://iccabq.org/) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Anthony wrote a series of spiritual reflections based on the spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius entitled Toward Greater Freedom. These reflections are available at http://towardgreaterfreedom.com/index.html. Anthony co-authored the chapter on Honduras in the book Teen Gangs: A Global View. Anthony has also served as the technical reviewer of various other books on Moodle.
Anthony is passionate about Moodle and the use of open source educational tools to help make education available to all. He finds inspiration in the Moodle community and enjoys working with others to help them share their creativity and expertise with the larger Moodle community. Anthony greatly enjoys being part of the Moodle community where every voice contributes to advancing the use of Moodle in a variety of settings around the world.
Silvina P. Hillar is an Italian who has been teaching English since 1993. She has always had a great interest in teaching, writing, and composing techniques, and has made a lot of research on this subject. She has been investigating and using mind mapping for more than 10 years in order to embed it into teaching.
She is an English teacher, a Certified Legal Translator (English/Spanish), and has a Post Degree in Education (graduated with Honors).
She has been working in several schools and institutes with native English speaking students, and as an independent consultant for many international companies as an interpreter, translator, and VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) course designer.
She has always had a passion for technological devices and their potential application to education. Videos and cassettes were a requirement in her teaching lessons; computer use was—and still is—present. Her brother, Gastón C. Hillar, designed some programs and games for her teaching. Currently, she is teaching using Moodle and Web 2.0. She believes that one of the most amazing challenges in education is bridging the gap between classic education and modern technologies.
She has been doing a lot of research on multimedia assets that enhance teaching and learning through VLE platforms. She tries to embed students' learning through new resources that are appealing and innovative for them. Thus, multimedia stimulates different thinking skills as well as multiple intelligences.
She has authored three books by Packt Publishing, which are Moodle 1.9: The English Teacher's Cookbook, Moodle 2 Multimedia Cookbook, and MindMapping with FreeMind.
I would like to dedicate this book to my wonderful son, Nico.
Ben Reynolds is a Senior Program Manager of CTYOnline at The Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth (CTY, http://cty.jhu.edu). An award-winning fictionist, he began CTY's face-to-face writing program in 1978 and launched CTYOnline's writing program in 1983. He began administrating CTYOnline's writing and language arts division in 1985. CTYOnline serves over 13,000 students a year in writing/language arts, math, science, computer science, Advanced Placement, and foreign languages.
In the 1990s, Ben left the classroom for full-time administration both of CTY's writing/language arts program and of a residential site for CTY Summer Programs. Ben has also taught writing and the teaching of writing for the Johns Hopkins School of Continuing Studies. He holds a BA from Duke University, where he part-timed in the computer center, trading print out for punched cards, and an MA from Johns Hopkins in Fiction Writing. He is an active member of the Using Moodle community.
Ben has also had his hands in the hardware. With his second son, he built his own PCs between the mid 90s and last year, when he settled on a plain vanilla laptop. He has been technical reviewer of two books by Packt Publishing: Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide and Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook. He believes that spending 99 percent of the time uninstalling and reinstalling is just wrong.
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Preface
Mobile devices have become ubiquitous, and both smartphones and tablets offer so many new possibilities for learning. Moodle is gradually becoming more mobile-friendly, with the inclusion of a mobile theme in Moodle 2, the availability of responsive third-party themes, and the launch of an official Moodle app. Moodle and mobile are coming together and this opens up a new world of possibilities for teachers, instructors, and training professionals.
This book is a hands-on guide that provides you with practical ideas and step-by-step exercises that will help you to take advantage of mobile devices in your Moodle course designs, as well as providing you with an understanding of mobile learning theory so that you can create your own effective mobile learning interactions.
You will learn how to develop your mobile learning strategy and decide whether to use a mobile-friendly Moodle theme or a Moodle Mobile app to deliver this strategy. There are some types of learning activities that are perfectly suited to mobile delivery. We will look at delivering podcasts, engaging with social media, setting up photo, video, and audio assignments, setting up e-book and app libraries, uploading audio assignment feedback, submitting reflective logs, using chat and messaging tools, using web conferencing, and much more.
Mobile devices already form the backbone of learners' daily lives. If you want to use Moodle to bring those devices into the learning process, then this book is for you.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Developing Your Mobile Learning Strategy, will aim to give you an understanding of the key concepts in mobile learning so that you can apply these to enhance your own Moodle courses . It also provides you with a vision of how Moodle for mobile learning can be put to use in your own organization.
Chapter 2, Setting Up Moodle for Mobile Learning, will help you to get your Moodle site set up so that it can be used for mobile learning, introduces the mobile-friendly themes that ship with Moodle, and explores the official Moodle Mobile app.
Chapter 3, Delivering Static Content to Mobiles, will look at how to deliver static content (that does not involve the use of multimedia) from Moodle to mobile devices.
Chapter 4, Delivering Multimedia Content to Mobiles, will cover how to deliver multimedia content from Moodle to mobile devices.
Chapter 5, Submitting Audio, Video, and Image Assignments, will explore an important element of mobile learning: using the built-in audio recording and camera capabilities of the mobile devices in students' pockets to allow them to capture audio, photos, or videos and upload these into Moodle for sharing or grading.
Chapter 6, Using Mobiles for Capturing Reflective Logs and Journals, will look at the use of reflective logs and journals for knowledge capture on mobile devices, the shorter nature of these activities lending themselves well to production on a tablet or even a smartphone.
Chapter 7, Performing Assessments Using Mobiles, will explain how a number of different types of assessment tools can built in Moodle by using the quiz activity, and how these can be optimized for mobile learning.
Chapter 8, Communicating with Mobile Users, will cover the wide range of communication tools that come with Moodle, and explores how these can be used in a mobile learning context.
Appendix, has a list of reference links that will help you to dig deeper into merging Moodle with your mobile device.
What you need for this book
Mobile support in Moodle depends on the version of Moodle you are using. At a minimum you will require Moodle 2.2, which was the first version to officially have any level of mobile support.
Who this book is for
This book is primarily aimed at Moodle course practitioners—teachers, tutors, instructors, and learning and development professionals. The book concentrates on understanding how the features and capabilities of mobile devices can be taken advantage of in your Moodle course design. There is just a single section on setting up Moodle for mobile delivery, which is aimed more at Moodle administrators. However, this book will also be useful for course practitioners who need to influence their IT team to make any required system changes. The book does not require any prior knowledge of mobile technology or the capabilities of the latest smartphones. Indeed, by the end of the book you will realize that anyone can deliver great courses that allow their learners to interact with their courses using the mobile devices in their pockets.
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Chapter 1. Developing Your Mobile Learning Strategy
This chapter aims to provide you with a vision of how Moodle for mobile learning can be put to use in your own organization. It will give you an understanding of the foundations of mobile learning, some insights into how important mobile learning is becoming, and how it is gaining momentum in different sectors. At the end of the chapter, you should have an understanding of the key concepts of mobile learning so that you can apply these concepts in order to enhance your own Moodle courses. We want to set you off on a mobile learning path that will allow you to better meet the needs and expectations of your learners who, as we will see, already use mobile devices as the backbone of their daily online interactions, and expect mobile compatibility to be the norm.
In this chapter, we will look at the following:
What is mobile learning?
There have been many attempts at defining mobile learning. Is it learning done on the move, such as on a laptop while we sit in a train? Or is it learning done on a personal mobile device, such as a smartphone or a tablet?
While there are a number of definitions available, for this book we are taking our cue from the eLearning Guild's 2007 definition, which seems the most sensible:
"Any activity that allows individuals to be more productive when consuming, interacting with, or creating information, mediated through a compact digital portable device that the individual carries on a regular basis, has reliable connectivity, and fits in a pocket or purse."
This covers a range of device types, including feature phones, smartphones, portable gaming devices, media players, e-readers, and tablets. What it does not cover though, are netbooks and laptops which, although they can clearly be used while the user is mobile, offer a more traditional desktop-based computing experience.
The capabilities of mobile devices
Anyone can develop mobile learning. You don't need to be a gadget geek or have the latest smartphone or tablet. You certainly don't need to know anything about the make and models of devices on the market. The only thing the learning practitioner really needs is an understanding of the capabilities of the mobile devices that your learners have. This will inform the types of mobile learning interventions that will be best suited to your audience. The following table shows an overview of what a mobile learner might be able to do with each of the device types. The Device uses column on the left should already be setting off lots of great learning ideas in your head!
Device uses
Feature phone
Smartphone
Tablet
Gaming device
Media player
Send texts
Yes
Yes
Make calls
Yes
Yes
Take photos
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Listen to music
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Social networking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Take high res photos
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Web searches
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Web browsing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Watch online videos
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Video calls
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Edit photos
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shoot videos
Yes
Yes
Yes
