Mobile learning (m-learning) involves using mobile technologies and devices like smartphones and tablets to access educational content. Smartphones allow learning materials to be accessed anywhere and support activities like conducting research, taking notes, communicating with others, and accessing multimedia resources. In schools, colleges and universities, smartphones help with tasks like checking facts, taking photos/videos, reading ebooks, making presentations and communicating. In open schools and distance learning, smartphones support activities such as forming discussion groups, accessing ebooks and videos, self-assessment quizzes, and interacting with teachers and peers.

1. M.Vijayalakshmi
Assistant Professor

2. Advanced Techniques of Instruction
Unit I

3. Unit I
Mobile Learning
Meaning and Definition of Mobile
Technologies – Use of Smart Phones in
learning – Smart Phones in Schools,
Colleges and Universities – Smart Phones
in Open Schools, Colleges and
Universities – Mobile Phones in Distance
Learning.

6. Meaning of Mobile Technologies
• Portable
• Any device that carries
with us to perform a
wide variety of “tasks”
• Tasks to be performed
via cellular phone
Personal Digital
Assistants (PDA)
tablet, laptops, etc

7. • It includes the use of a
variety of transmission
media such as:
radiowave, microwave,
infra-red, GPS and
bluetooth to allow for
the transfer of data via
voice, text, video, 2-
dimensional barcodes
and more.

8. • An electronic tele-
commnunications
device often referred to
as cellular phone or
cell phone.
• Mobile phones connect
to a wireless
communications
network through radio
wave or satellite
transmissions.

9. • Most mobile phones provide voice
communications, Short Message Service
(SMS), Multimedia Message Service (MMS),
games, cameras, video players, navigational
systems, and also provide internet services
such as web browsing and e-mail.
• They can be used over a wide area without a
physical connection to a network.

10. Definition of Mobile Technologies
Mobility of
Technology
Mobility of
Learning
Mobility of
Learners

11. • Mobile learning (m-Iearning) is
defined as the provision of
education and training on mobile
devices, such as Personal Digital
Assistants (PDAs), smart phones
and mobile phones

12. According to Lan and Sie (20l0)
• "Mobile learning (m-learning) is a
kind of learning model allowing
learners to obtain learning materials
anywhere and anytime using mobile
technologies and the internet".

13. Laurillard and Pachler (2007) defines,
• "M-learning is being the digital support
of adaptive, investigate, communicative,
collaborate and productive learning
activities in remote locations purposes a
wide variety of environments in which
the teacher can operate".

14. • "Mobile technology refers to devices
that are both transportable and offer
instantaneous access to
information".
- Coates et al., (2009)

15. • “The technology includes ipod, MP3
player, personal digital assistants, USB
Driver, e-book reader, smart phone, ultra
mobile, PC and laptop or tablet PC".
- Adeeb and Hussain, (2009)

16. • "Personal digital assistants (PDA) and
smart phones are mobile devices
that are agents for real time
communication".
- Chang et at, (2012)

18. Mobile Device
Cell phones
E-book readers
Smartphones

20. USE OF SMART PHONES IN LEARNING
• Portability
• Accessibility
• Ease of use
• Apps
• Built in Features: Camera, Email, etc
• Personalization
• Convenience
• Tools to Help and Keep Organized
• Information at our fingertips
• Pocket size power
• Faster communication
• Keep in Touch
• Multimedia Functions

23. • Access company data
• Cheaper than laptops
• Time efficient
• Keep in touch with social networking
• Has a data plan that enables to use the
internet
• Video player and PDA (personal digital
assistant) all at the same time
• They're used to access the internet, schedule
homework, and send e-mails to teachers and
fellow students regarding assignments

24. Use of Smart Phones
in Higher Education Learning
• Conducting research.
• Updating records or collaborating with peers.
• Embraced M-Learning
• Digital note-taking.
• Students can spell-check, modify and amend
their class notes on the smart phone.

26. • Access to phone, email, organizer and
multimedia.
• Educators distribute course material through the
Internet.
• Textbook publishers have begun to release
e-books.
• Software companies have developed smart phone
programs such as dictionaries, thesaurus, word
processing software, encyclopedias and digital
lesson plans.
• Web browsing using Wifi or cellular network.

27. SMART PHONES IN SCHOOLS,
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
• Check facts
• Take photos
• Make videos
• Carry out tests
• Read the news
• Dictionary
• Translator

28. • Calendar
• Write down ideas
• Listen to music
• Images
• Review
• Stopwatch or timer
• Read eBooks
• Voice recorder
• Document scanner

30. • Calculator
• Edit videos
• Edit pictures
• Publish in the class blog
• Make presentations
• Remote control
• Communicate
• Store formulae
• Control noise
• Updates

32. • Locate points on the map
• Control Attendance
• Assess Students
• Clock
• Inspire
• Share Notes
• Digital whiteboard
• Weather
• Measure productivity
• Play

33. USES OF SMART PHONES IN OPEN
SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
• Definition
• Smart phones are technology that can be
accessed here, anytime without the use of
wires or cables to transmit message from one
device to another.
- Kim et al (2004)

34. Open School
• Informal education centers
• First located at Africa in 1914
• Then gradually developed in other countries
• Our Indian Constitution Article no. 26 -
• "Every man compulsory should have
education at least elementary education must
have basic education".

35. Admission –
• drop out students
• adult students
• special students
• In the open schools have no age limitations.

36. Open Colleges and Open Universities
• Improperly learning students
• To praise the skill and talent of
the students
• Those who have not
completed the I 0+2 pattern
they will be admitted

37. Role of smart phones
• Forming group discussion
• e-learning
• e-books
• e-tutor
• Download
• You Tube
• Video-chat
• Calculators

38. • Calculators
• Flipped classroom
• Deliver the content
• Testing the facts
• Dictionary
• Videos
• Connecting students outside the class
• Connecting students outside the class

40. Learner support
Short Messaging Service (SMS) advice on
• study skills,
• time management and
• examination preparation.
PDAs and smart phones are used for
• diagnostic quizzes,
• to help examination preparation
• more interactive exercises to help with study
skills.

41. Learning Management System (LMS), which
provides
• access to course content,
• power point slides of lectures and
• self assessment tests etc.

44. • Such a provision is a useful addition to an
already well developed on-line service but
cannot be regarded as something to which
open schooling in developing countries might
aspire in the short term
• Much more relevant to open schooling is the
use of mobile telephones to supply purpose
designed learning materials, with self
assessment in short modules.

45. Context specific activities
• Several institutions report that
mobile technologies are helpful in a
range of context specific situations
ranging from museum visits, to field
work and project work.

46. • Learning out of the classroom is an
example of the creative use of hand
held mobile technologies. The latest
gadgets are opening up ever more
possibilities for innovative teaching
and learning.

47. • Drawing on functions such as GPS,
camera, video, audio 3G internet access,
which are often now incorporated
within one device, teachers of all
subjects and across all ages can
capitalise on opportunities for using
these technologies in fieldwork

48. Support for disabled and institutionalized people
• The text size can be hard to read. Older
learners and those with sight problems can
struggle.
• Text to voice technology is improving albeit
slowly, and needs to be considered where the
learner constituency demands it.

49. MOBILE PHONES IN DISTANCE LEARNING
• Cell phones can be used, in conjunction with
printed materials to give and get feedback
from lecturers and students, across
learning games, simulations, self-assessment
quizzes, podcasts
• A lecturer can send an SMS that is meant to
trigger discussion on a particular topic and
then encourage students to engage in a
discussion.

50. • Students can form peer support study groups
through cell phone social networks such as
whatsapp, facebook and twitter
• Students can interact or get clarity on a
difficult concept by checking it on the internet
using cell phones

51. • Podcasts and videocasts can be created to
record, store and deliver content
• Lectures and students can acquire different
technological skills and competencies they
need to understand and know how to use
different mobile features and applications for
teaching and learning.

52. • There are many learning activities that can be
supported by cell phones.
• Students can be asked to access certain Open
Educational Resources (OER) material on the
internet; and be asked to offer their own
ideas and post them in their discussion forums
or in conference sessions where they share
them with their peers and lecturers.

55. • Students can take pictures, share it with
others and hold discussions on how to solve a
particular problem using different cell phone
applications.