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Mobile devices and open education: Match made in heaven or shotgun wedding?
- 1. Mobile devices and open education: Match made in heaven or shotgun wedding? Terese Bird Learning Technologist and SCORE Research Fellow Institute of Learning Innovation University of Leicester www.le.ac.uk
- 2. What will we talk about today? • Mobile use generally & in education • Is open educational movement mobile-friendly? (anecdote about a meeting to look at oer – first was flash-based, chair of meeting was looking via iPad – not good) • My survey – MOOCs • The global mobile situation • Conclusions
- 3. Global growth of mobile Marketing Charts data 2013
- 4. Horizon report 2012 (New Media Consortium 2012) Within 12 months these will become mainstream in education: • Mobile apps – Pervasive internet connection – GPS • Tablet PCs – Less disruptive than phones – More mobile than laptops – Good for long readings Photo by Ed Yourdon on Flickr
- 5. Mobile use in education (UoL snapshot) • 15% of UoL first year medical student own an iPad… rising to 35% of UoL third year medical students own an iPad (Winter 2013 data) • Over 7000 unique downloads of Blackboard Mobile from October 2012 through Feb 2013 without being required to • Many distance learning courses choosing and considering mobile as e-reader and other learning purposes
- 6. Is the open education movement mobile? • MIT Open Courseware – pdf and video • iTunes U – yes but Apple-weighted • Flash clash • Online v offline Photo by Steve Rhodes on Flickr
- 7. JISC OER projects encourage mobile www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts
- 8. Are MOOCing students using mobile devices? SurveyMonkey - via Twitter 1 week - Coursera - N=12
- 10. If you had trouble, briefly describe: “I tried to access Coursera on my BlackBerry, but it won't play ball. Phone's software and memory capabilities are main culprits. Would likely work on a more recent smartphone, but still sad not to have a mobile option available to me at present. “ “All I really used the phone for, was to pick up my results today, while I was out and about. Whilst I got the "You may not be able to access this with your webbrowser". (Using Sony phone with Android - not sure which release), I could get to the assessment page. Havent tried viewing videos etc. It would be great if the Coursera site was optimised for mobile.: “All materials accessed through tablet browser but would think that in this day and age they would've created a specific 'app for that' that would make the forums more accessible and easier to navigate. “ “Flash” (Apple mobile) “I’ve dropped out of MOOCs because I could not access the content from my iPhone or iPad”
- 11. The global mobile situation • Growth of smartphones in African nations • Growth of Apple in China • iPads and other tablets in Turkey • Apple infrastructure No African unis in iTunes U iBooks Author free but… iTunes U good for offline
- 12. Apple is courting education but • Developing world? • Is it open if few can afford it? Photo by Brett Jordan on Flickr Photo by BasiliskSam on Flickr
- 13. Conclusions • Develop open materials and platforms for mobile • Develop for offline use where possible • Small filesizes • Communication between communities
- 14. References • Marketing Chart Staff. (2013). Mobile Share of Web Traffic Jumped in Q4 2012. Marketing Charts Website. Retrieved march 11,2013, from http://www.marketingcharts.com/wp/interactive/m obile-share-of-web-traffic-jumped-in-q4-2012- 26057/ • New Media Consortium. (2012). Horizon Report > 2012 Higher Education Edition.