The Mobile Academy E-Book

Clark N. Quinn

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 181

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

A fundamental revolution in higher education is being sparked bythe ubiquity of mobile devices. The opportunity is ripe forinstitutions, instructors, and instructional designers to takeadvantage of mobile technology to enhance the learning experience. The Mobile Academy is a guide for systematicallyintegrating mobile devices into higher education courses and otheracademic and student support services in order to facilitatelearning outcomes and student success. It covers a wealth oftopics, including the use of mobile devices as applied toadministrative services, classroom content, assessment,communication, and what's to come in the future. "In The Mobile Academy Clark Quinn gives aspiringlearning technologists a crash course in what it will take toharness the power and potential of mobile learning in highereducational settings. He has given us a comprehensive, engagingguide for creating mobile learning solutions that inspire anytime,anywhere, and on whatever device one chooses." --Ellen Wagner, partner and senior analyst, Sage RoadSolutions LLC; executive director WCET "If you are a faculty member, instructional support staff, or anadministrator at a university or a two-year college, you must readand understand this book. From ideas on interactivity andengagement through mLearning, to conducting an environmental scan,to dealing with policy issues, this book provides the foundationupon which to build for the future--the future ofmLearning." --Karl M. Kapp, professor of instructional technology,Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania; author,Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning and Learning in3D "In The Mobile Academy, Clark Quinn provides a sensibletheoretical and practical foundation that will help highereducation organizations to develop their own strategies forproviding mobile services for learning and student support. Fromdesigners to educators to administrators, this is the guide to foryou to get 'mobilized.'" --Alan Levine, cogdogblog.com

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

List of Figures

Dedication

Preface

Audience

Goals

Structure

Recommendations

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Chapter 1: The Mobile Revolution

Context

Related Experiences

Why Higher Education Needs to Pay Attention

The Rest of this Book

Practice

Chapter 2: Foundations: Mobile

Devices

Of Platforms and Processing Power

Four Cs and Thinking Differently

Definition

Summary

Practice

Chapter 3: Foundations: Learning

Making Learning Work

Beyond the Basics

Summary

Practice

Chapter 4: Administration “To Go”

Principles

Delivery

Summary

Practice

Task Checklist

Chapter 5: Content Is King

Media

Media Specifics

Accessing

Summary

Practice

Content Form

Chapter 6: Practice: Interactivity and Assessment

Design

Interactions

Meta-learning

Summary

Practice

Category Checklist

Chapter 7: Going Social

Learning Interactions

Social Media

Meta-learning

Summary

Practice

Channel Checklist

Chapter 8: Going Beyond

Augmented Reality

Alternate Reality

Adaptive Delivery

Moving Forward

Practice

Chapter 9: Getting Going: Organizational Issues

Design

Development

Implementation

Policies

You gotta be in it to get it

Practice

Bibliography

Index

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Quinn, Clark N., 1956-

The mobile academy : mLearning for higher education / Clark N. Quinn.—1st ed.

p. cm.—(The Jossey-Bass Higher and adult education series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-07265-3 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-1-118-14603-3 (ebk.)

ISBN 978-1-118-14604-0 (ebk.)

ISBN 978-1-118-14605-7 (ebk.)

1. Education, Higher—Computer-assisted instruction. 2. Mobile communication systems in education. I. Title.

LB2395.7.Q56 2012

378.1'7344678—dc23

2011030031

List of Figures

Figure 2.1 The Mobile Device

Figure 2.2 Content

Figure 2.3 Capture

Figure 2.4 Compute

Figure 2.5 Communicate

Figure 3.1 Spaced Learning

Figure 3.2 Alternate Pedagogies

Figure 4.1 Environmental Scan

Figure 5.1 QR Code

Figure 8.1 Web Generations

Figure 8.2 Intelligent Architecture

Figure 9.1 Performance Ecosystem

To my dear wife, LeAnn, who has shared, supported, and endured my postgraduate endeavors

Preface

There's a fundamental revolution being sparked by the advent of ubiquitous mobile devices. The devices are everywhere, and they are enabling changes in society (communications supporting revolutions), commerce (paying with your phone), and interpersonal relationships (sexting!). The very omnipresence of these devices also suggests a change in education, and the question really is whether it is something that happens or something we take advantage of.

In short, we have new power in our hands, and we can use it for good or ill. To use mobile for good, and in particular for learning, we need to understand the power on tap, look at some principles and examples, and get going.

Audience

This book is for the higher education instructor and the folks that support them as instructional designers or in administrative services. This book provides guidance for the applications of mobile learning to support the student learning experience, which includes meeting administrative needs of the learners, but mostly focuses on facilitating learning.

Goals

This book provides the background information necessary to successfully design mobile learning solutions. This book provides you with a background in mobile devices and platforms and a model for mobile learning. It also includes practical advice and examples on implementing mobile for:

Administrative needsSupport for content deliveryDelivery of meaningful practiceAdding the value of social learningA look at what's comingOrganizational and implementation issues

The goal is to help you consider how mobile can improve the learner experience, making the higher education process both easier and more effective, and to support you in taking advantage of the opportunity.

Structure

This book starts with an overview that documents why it is time to talk mobile. Following are two foundation chapters covering mobile devices and learning, to provide common ground for the ensuing discussion.

The core of the discussion is laid across four chapters and starts with the administrative ways mobile can facilitate the learner experience. The core of the learning experience is then broken into components: the content around the learner activity; the meaningful tasks or practice in which the learner engages; and social learning.

The book concludes with a look toward the future, some practical issues of implementing mobile in an organization, and encouragement to get going.

Recommendations

This book was written with an expectation that you will read it in order. Instructors and course designers may be able to jump straight to Chapter Five and proceed, if you are familiar enough with both mobile devices and pedagogy and want to begin looking for ideas to augment your classes. I expect administrators to be more concerned with Chapters Four and Nine.

Acknowledgments

As with my previous efforts, I am indebted to many who have supported me in this initiative. My family is first, including my wife, LeAnn, my son, Declan, and daughter, Erin, who have put up with my heavy workload and consequent seclusion in my dungeon. Also, my mother, Esther, and brother, Clif (and indirectly his family), have never wavered in their support.

Academically, I am very fortunate to have been supported by my undergraduate advisers Hugh Mehan and Jim Levin, thesis supervisor Donald Norman, postdoctoral supervisor Leona Schauble, head of school Paul Compton, and colleague John Ittelson, as at least a partial list. They gave me space to learn and the necessary guidance to succeed.

My nonacademic career mentors include Jim Schuyler, Ron Watts, Rim Keris, Joe Miller, Charlie Gillette, and Mohit Bhargava, all of whom have taught me valuable lessons. Carmel Myers and Ken Majer bridged academia and career, mentoring me within campus administration. My colleagues in the Internet Time Alliance—Jay Cross, Jane Hart, Harold Jarche, and Charles Jennings—have served as collaborators in social learning and have provided both valuable insight and much support.

Erin Null has been my acquisition editor and provided me this opportunity and valuable feedback. Cathy Mallon, as my production editor, has been flexible yet firm. Thanks to John Traxler, Grant Beever, and Alan Levine, who all kindly gave me time and assistance. A second thanks goes to John Ittelson for agreeing to write the foreword.

To all those and the many more who have played a role, I give my fervent thanks and grateful appreciation.

About the Author

Clark Quinn leads learning system design through Quinnovation, providing strategic solutions to Fortune 500, education, government, and not-for-profit organizations. Previously, he headed research and development efforts for Knowledge Universe Interactive Studio, and before that he held executive positions at Open Net and Access CMC, two Australian initiatives in internet-based multimedia and education. Clark is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of learning technology with an extensive publication and presentation record and has held positions at the University of New South Wales, the University of Pittsburgh's Learning Research and Development Center, and San Diego State University's Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education. Clark earned a PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of California, San Diego, after working for DesignWare, an early educational software company. An early innovator, Clark was part of a project conducting learning discussion via e-mail in 1979 and has maintained a consistent track record of advanced uses of technology including mobile, performance support, intelligently adaptive learning systems, and award-winning online content, educational computer games, and web sites. He is in demand as a speaker both nationally and internationally and has published Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games (Pfeiffer, 2005) and Designing mLearning: Tapping into the Mobile Revolution for Organizational Performance (Pfeiffer, 2011), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.