Steve Vosloo är mobile learning specialist, på Unesco, med ett speciellt fokus på Afrika. Steves ledord i arbetet är: Use the ICTs in the hands of youth to enable their participation Steve medverkade vid DIUs seminarium på Unesco 29 januari 2013.

1. UNESCO’s Work in
Mobile Learning
Steve Vosloo
Presented to Swedish Delegation, UNESCO, 30 January 2013

2. WHY MOBILES?

3. Ubiquitous
and powerful
mobile
devices
Potential to
benefit
learners
everywhere
Expanding
applicability
for teaching
and learning

4. Significance to UNESCO:
• Learners who might not have access to high-
quality education or even schools often do
have working mobile phones.
• People generally know how to use mobile
phones for communication and other
purposes.
• Mobile technologies will become more
ubiquitous and powerful in the future.

5. Given the ubiquity and power of
mobile devices, UNESCO is
committed to understanding their
potential to expand educational
opportunities and sharing this
information with others.

6. Our Guiding Question:
How can countries best leverage
mobile technologies to support
EFA goals and enrich learning?

7. UNESCO’s work in mobile learning
Approach:
• Conducting research and disseminating knowledge
• Providing guidance to member states
• Action projects for pilot testing and capacity building
• Convening community
Main focus areas/activities:
• Policy for mobile learning
• Teacher development and mobile technologies
• Literacy for women and girls through mobiles
• Mobiles for Reading
• Crowdsourcing for EFA
• Mobile Learning Week

8. Partnerships
UNESCO’s work in mobile learning is made
possible through key partnerships:
• Nokia
• US Dept of State

9. UNESCO research is currently illuminating:

10. Turning on Mobile Learning in…
• Africa and the
Middle East
• Asia
• Europe
• Latin America
• North America
• Global Themes

11. Mobile Learning for Teachers in…
• Africa and the
Middle East
• Asia
• Europe
• Latin America
• North America
• Global Themes

12. Issues Paper: Mobile Learning Policy
Advice to policy makers
on how to take
advantage of the
unique educational
affordances of mobile
technologies

13. Issues Paper: Future of Mobile Learning
Helps policy makers
envision and prepare
for the future of mobile
learning

14. Mobile Technologies for Teacher Development
Mexico: Enhance the teaching Nigeria: Support the pedagogical
practice of Spanish language practice and content knowledge
teachers working with students of English language teachers
who speak indigenous languages
Pakistan: Develop the Senegal: Improve the teaching of
professional practice of early science and math in secondary
childhood care and education schools
instructors working in rural areas.

15. Senegal
17

16. Mexico
18

17. Pakistan
19

18. Pakistan
20

19. Mobile PhoneLiteracy: Empowering Women
Mobile Phone Literacy –
and Girls
Empowering Women and Girls

20. Mobile PhoneLiteracy: Empowering Women
Mobile Phone Literacy –
and Girls
Empowering Women and Girls
Project Aims: Advocating the use of mobile technologies to
empower women and girls through documenting and
disseminating successful stories based on analysis of what works
and how to make it work, and what does NOT work
• 9 case studies
• 2 regional reviews
• 3 regional consultation meetings

21. Mobile Phone Literacy –
Empowering Women and Girls
(Africa)
*Case Study 1
*Case Study 2 (Latin America &
*Case Study 3 the Caribbean)
*Case Study 8 Africa Asia Global
Regional Regional Comparative
(Asia & the Pacific) Review Review Analysis
*Case Study 4 (Arab States)
*Case Study 5 *Case Study 9
*Case Study 6
*Case Study 7
Global level
Country level cases Regional level reviews comparison

22. Mobiles for Reading
• Research mobile reading habits across 8
developing countries
• Understand the needs and desires of mobile-
based readers in developing countries
 Contribute to one of the
most promising
opportunities for raising
reading levels in
developing countries

23. Project update
EFA CROWDSOURCING CHALLENGE

24. EFA Goals Launch Dates
10/10/2011 Literacy
10/11/2011 Universal Primary Education
12/12/2011 Youth and Adult Learning Needs
10/02/2012 Improving the Quality of Education
12/03/2012 Gender Parity and Equality in Education
Early Childhood Care
and Education 10/04/2012 Early Childhood Care and Education
31/05/2012 End of Challenge

25. Literacy
Dates: 10/10/2011 - 09/11/2011
Winner: Sanjith Yeruva (United States)
Winning idea: Test on Text
Test on Texts: a mobile application for students that evaluates their knowledge via text questions
and suggests content in an intuitive manner.
Universal Primary Education
Dates: 10/11/2011 - 11/12/2011
Winner: Swaroop John (India)
Winning idea: I-Learn
I-Learn: a mobile application for students that encourages picture-based learning to complement
radio broadcasts
Youth and Adult Learning Needs
Date: 12/12/2011 - 09/02/2012
Winner: Eric Kotonya (Kenya)
Winning idea: Education Time Bank
Education Time Bank: a mobile application encouraging teens and adults to learn in personalized,
EFA interactive short sessions of highly-specialized topics. The proposed app lets anyone credit their
account by providing live training through IM (instant messaging) or video chat, and later use
these credits to purchase training on other topics from community members.
Improving the Quality of Education
Crowdsorucing Dates: 10/02/2012 - 11/03/2012
Winner: Harkirat Singh (India)
Winning idea: "Mission for the week"
Winners Start "Mission for the week" program: Teachers get a mission every week, so that their way of
teaching, understanding and helping students gives the best results.
Gender Parity and Equality in Education
Dates: 12/03/2012 - 09/04/2012
Winner: Laura Blackheart (United States)
Winning idea: Mobile Partners in Education
Mobile Partners in Education: a mobile application that pairs up girls in disadvantaged
communities with an advantaged classroom (across the globe or close to home) through mobile
technology. With a mobile device, a girl who does not have the opportunity to access a good
education can join her sponsor class via voice, video, text, and app.
Early Childhood Care and Education
Dates: 10/04/2012 - 31/05/2012
Winner: Nand Wadhwani (China)
Winning idea: Health Phone
HealthPhone: HealthPhone uses mobile technology to provide information for women to make
healthy decisions for themselves and their families. Content will include information on nutrition,
common childhood diseases, pregnancy, childbirth, the first year of life, child survival, growth,
learning, development and protection, and women empowerment. Videos, audio recordings,
images, and text messages will be produced and delivered to families via mobile phones.

26. Grand prize winners announced Oct. 11
Improving the Quality of Education
Dates: 10/02/2012 - 11/03/2012
Winner: Harkirat Singh (India)
Winning idea: "Mission for the week"
Start "Mission for the week" program: Teachers get a mission every week, so
that their way of teaching, understanding and helping students gives the best
results.

27. Putting it all together
Mobile Phone
Four Country Working Papers Literacy –
Projects Series: Global Empowering
Reviews Women and Girls
Issues Paper on
Issue Paper on
Mobile Learning
the Future of
Policy
Guidelines Mobile Learning
for Mobile
Learning
Policy
Online Support Resources

28. Aims of the Guidelines:
• Raise awareness and put mobile learning onto
the ICT in Education agenda.
• Promote value and practicability of mobile
learning.
• Make high-level recommendations for
creating policies that enable mobile learning.

29. UNESCO Guidelines on Mobile Learning
Two main sections
Unique Benefits of
Mobile Policy
Technologies for Recommendations
Learning

30. 1) Expand the reach and equity of education
2) Facilitate personalized learning
3) Power anytime, anywhere learning
4) Provide immediate feedback and assessment
5) Ensure the productive use of time spent in classrooms
6) Build new communities of students
7) Support situated learning
8) Enhance seamless learning
9) Bridge formal and informal learning
10) Assist learners in unusual circumstances
11) Improve communication and administration
12) Maximize cost efficiency

31. 1) Create or update policies related to mobile learning
2) Train teachers to advance learning through mobile
technologies
3) Provide support and training to teachers through mobile
technologies
4) Optimize educational content for use on mobile devices
5) Ensure gender equality for mobile students
6) Expand and improve connectivity options while ensuring
equity
7) Develop strategies to provide devices for students who
cannot afford them
8) Use mobile technology to improve communication and
education management
9) Promote the safe, responsible, and healthy use of mobile
technologies
10) Raise awareness of mobile learning through advocacy,
leadership, and dialogue

32. UNESCO Mobile
Learning Week 2013
UNESCO Headquarters
Paris, France
18-22 February 2013
www.tinyurl.com/mlw2013

33. Thank you
More information:
tinyurl.com/unescomobilelearning