Mobile Learning and Global Models – How did it evolve? Market penetration, mobile adoption and usage tendencies presented. Mobile learning capabilities and features revealed using real cases and examples. Finally, what are the benefits and challenges? Mobile learning is the future in nowadays life with rapidly growing new technologies.
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Mobile Learning and Global Models – The Next Revolution in Education Industry
1. MOBILE LEARNING AND GLOBAL
MODELS
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2. Mobile Learning and Global Models
A quick history of mobile learning
Market penetration
Catalysts driving the adoption of mobile learning
Ecosystems
The Funding context
Some exemplary mobile learning projects
Challenges
Summary
3. A short history of Mobile Learning
In 1901, Linguaphone used wax cylinders for a language lesson
series
The Dynabook (1968), a concept book-sized computer offered
simulated learning for children
MOBIlearn and M-Learning projects were funded by the European
Commission in the 2000s
It‟s the learner that has always been mobile!
4. Is that really the HISTORY of Mobile Learning?
What is “Normal learning”?
Has learning always looked the way it looks today?
5. So, where did “Brick and Mortar” come from?
The need to scale
Agriculture
Immobility of libraries
Immobility of chalk boards
Access to experts
Clustering of civilization
…
13. Learning can and should be mobile again!
Mobile devices allow learning to be
Personalized
Dynamic
Learner centric
Scalable
Effective learning means
• Construction
• Conversation
• Control
15. Market Penetration
Education is going mobile in the United States and worldwide
Its already started happening, and the pace of adoption is quick
Two out of five cell phones in the US are smartphones
The growth rate is outpacing that of PCs ten fold
Mobile devices are displacing laptops
16. Mobile Usage Worldwide
By 2020, 6 billion - 80 % of the worlds population will use mobile
phones, and 4.7 billion people will access the Internet, primarily on
mobile devices
Smartphone access for middle and high school students in the US
jumped 42% from 2009 to 2010
44% of high school students in Title 1, rural and urban areas have
smartphones
It‟s the same percentage for students in suburban, non-Title 1
schools
17. What does that mean?
Irrelevance of the digital divide?
Parents are making the choice to supplement their children‟s
education with anytime access to digital resources
Students and parents get
to play a more active role
in education?
20. The student audience is:
Connected
Communicating
Computerized
Content-centric
Community oriented
21. Available Applications and Demand
At this time:
Thousands of educational apps
More parent-child / less teacher-student
Quality?
Students with smartphones study 40 minutes
more per week
• 19% study in the bathroom
• 17% study while exercising
• More likely to track grades and assignments
online
• Less likely to pull all-nighters
• 40% of all study sessions include a “fun phone
22. Worldwide – the market for Mobile Learning
The worldwide market for mobile learning products and services will
grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $9.1 billion by 2015
The US is now the #1 purchasing country for mobile learning,
followed by:
Japan
South Korea
UK
Taiwan
This is 70% of the global mobile learning market
23. Worldwide – the market for Mobile Learning
All this is changing
By 2015, these countries will only account for 40% of all
expenditures
The countries with the highest growth rates are:
China
India
Indonesia
Brazil
Highest growth rates are in developing economies – Asia, Latin
America, Africa
24. Worldwide – the market for Mobile Learning
Turkey:
India and the Philippines:
Purchasing 15 million tablets for school children
Subsidized the development of personal
learning devices and have launched them in
2011
India:
$35 Aakash tablet has already
been launched
Second generation model will
be out early 2012
25. Real World Examples
The Minnesota school board has approved more than $1.1million to
purchase 1450 iPad 2s
The Florida school district has received a $1million gift from a
donor. They are planning on using the money to provide every
student an iPad
A prominent school in Mumbai, India has made it mandatory for all
its students to purchase the iPad 2
The school has ordered approximately 850 iPads for this purpose
http://www.ipadinschools.com
26. Mobile Learning – "value creation"
Mobile learning has exited the "market creation" phase and has
entered the "value creation" phase in the US
In 1984, there were only 1,000 devices in the world capable of
accessing the Internet
Eight years later, this had reached one million
Last year, it reached one billion
Will double soon
Radio
38 Years
Time spent to reach 50 million users
TV
13 Years
Internet
4 Years
iPod
3 Years
Facebook
2 Years
27. Mobile Learning – "value creation"
“Advanced features” are now “must haves”
Extraordinary innovations such as:
Location-based learning
Mobile augmented reality
Haptic-enabled (touch based) learning
Intelligent decision support
“Smart” personal learning appliances
29. Mobile Learning = Ecosystem of Features
These include:
Mobile commerce
Near field communications (NFC)
Mobile advertising
Mobile web browsing
Device-independent multimedia
Location-based services
eBooks
And, of course, Mobile Applications
30. The Content Distribution is expanding rapidly
There are now global mass-market stores operated by GetJar,
Amazon and Opera
The Google, Apple and BlackBerry stores have dedicated
educational categories
Apple has “bulk buying” for academic buyers
Targeting institutional sales
31. Constant change
In a recent announcement by Apple, over 20,000 educational and
learning apps have been built specifically for the iPad
The iBookstore already contains “hundreds of thousands” of eBooks
Drag and drop to create iBooks using iBooks Author
1,000 universities and colleges around the world are using iTunes U
iBooks 2 with more features
32. Everything is Evolving at Lightning Speed
Major spike in sales of smartphones, eBook readers and tablets in
2011
What‟s evolving?
Cost (lower)
User interface (better)
Processing speed (faster)
Peripherals (sexier)
Memory and storage (larger)
Motion sensors (cooler)
Wireless connectivity (everywhere)
33. Government spending is down in the US
Weak economy / challenged funding – DRIVING self paced elearning
Increased popularity of “virtual schools”
Recession
State budget cuts
Need for creative solutions
34. Government spending is down in the US
The US government spends around $900 billion per year on
education in US schools – but can‟t accommodate all US students
Budget cuts are at their highest in 60 years
Huge potential to reduce costs dramatically with mobile education
Cutting costs without compromising quality needs new solutions
35. Cost-effectiveness
eBooks are cost effective, with a possible 80% price reduction over
a Paper Book
A $15 eBook = $75 Paper Book?
Amazon promises savings of up to 80% over print-based textbooks
with “tens of thousands” of eBooks available
Risks? TCO?
37. Some exemplary mobile learning projects
Project K-Nect for secondary at-risk students - focuses on increasing
their math skills using smartphones
The Mobile Learning Network (MoLeNET) in the UK - collaboratively
introduces and supports mobile learning in education and training.
Forsythe County, GA: BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology)
38. Forsythe County - Considerations
Policy change
Educational acceptance
Instructional adaptation
Common sense
Students are permitted to connect to the district network via the secure
wireless connection provided by the school system, but all access must
be in accordance with Acceptable Use Policy
Students are NOT permitted to use their own computing devices to
access the Internet via personal Wi-Fi accounts or by any manner other
than connecting through the secure wireless connection provided by the
school system
39. The case against textbooks
Textbooks are:
Expensive
Heavy
Requires trees
Mobile content is:
Inexpensive
Light
Portable
GREEN
40. The case against textbooks - findings
3 out of 4 college freshmen would buy an iPad “if” 50% of their
textbooks were digital
A majority say that reading on the iPad is “more convenient” than
reading paper textbooks
41. The case against textbooks - findings
The New 3 Es of Education:
Enabled
Engaged
Empowered
77% of teachers highly value the ability of mobile devices to
increase student engagement
43. The Challenges for education on mobile
Bad press and lethargy
Opposition from traditional publishers
Institutionalized practices
No widely accepted mobile theory of
learning
TCO, long term costs?
Stability of platforms?
Proprietary platforms – Apple‟s textbooks
You can pick up a dropped paper book, but an iPad?
45. History of Mobile Learning
We‟ve covered:
Trends
Technology
Cost benefits
Interesting data
Challenges
The case for Mobile Learning
46. What Learning should be:
Interactive:
Personalized:
Mobile learning increases “communication” between peers and
instructors
Programs “adapt” to the individual learner‟s strengths
Engaging:
Collaboration, entertaining, immersive
Flexible
Location insensitive
Cost-effective
47. An opportunity to create the future…
“Guide on the side” v “Sage on the stage”
Advocate! Demand! Articulate! Bear Witness!
Imagine the future
What will your Facebook profile look like in 2030?
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51. Sources
Wikipedia articles : "A Short History of Mobile Learning", Mike
Sharples, LSRI, University of Nottingham,Wireless Coyote: A
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Project Tomorrow 2011 Speak Up National Research Project
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Marvel of Mobile Learning" - Master the New Net, Sept 2011
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Ambient Insight‟s US Market for Mobile Learning Products and
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Is the iPad Ready To Replace the Printed Textbook? - Campus
Technology, June 2011 and Ambient Insight Research, 2011
The results of a classroom poll at Abilene Christian University.
Is the iPad Ready To Replace the Printed Textbook? - Campus
Technology, June 2011 and Ambient Insight Research, 2011
Source: Wikipedia articles, and ‘A Short History of Mobile Learning’, Mike Sharples, LSRI, University of Nottingham,Wireless Coyote: A Computer-Supported Field Trip, Communications of the ACM - Special issue on technology in K–12 education