Tuesday: Teaching and Learning

Mobile Sprint Day 2

Tuesday Poll

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Tuesday's Overview

Mobile computing is firmly established at our institutions—hundreds of thousands of applications are available for mobile devices. Which ones truly serve learning? What apps need to be created? Which pedagogies and learning practices are best suited to the anywhere/anytime advantages afforded by mobile computing? Most important, what strategies best align institutional teaching and learning goals with mobile computing?

Tuesday's Webinar

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Teaching and Learning: Four Perspectives

*Speakers:*	Kyle Bowen, Director of Informatics, Purdue University Judy Brown, Education Technology Consultant; Emerging Technology Analyst, Office of Learning and Information Technology (OLIT), University of Wisconsin System (retired) Jennifer Sparrow, Director of Emerging Technologies and New Ventures, Virginia Tech University Lisa Young, Instructional Technology Faculty, Scottsdale Community College
*Host:*	Veronica Diaz, Associate Director, ELI

Mobile Learning Today and Tomorrow
This session explores the status of mobile learning today, including options and opportunities. We'll also take a quick glimpse at the future of mobility and will provide resources for further exploration.

All of That and the Kitchen Sink: Mobility Initiatives at Virginia Tech
This session explores a decentralized approach to mobility and the successes and challenges Virginia Tech has faced as they've tried to keep up with student and faculty member demand for mobile technologies. This session also explores university- and student-created apps that have been developed, courses on mobile development, and teaching and learning with mobile devices.

Mobility Matters: Providing Apps That Connect, Communicate, and Create
This session explores Purdue University's approach to providing mobile applications for use inside and outside the classroom. Examples will be focused on the unique aspects of mobile devices and how they can provide students and faculty members with new capabilities that take advantage of the technology most common to students while laying the groundwork for new models of assessment.

iPads in Action: A Case Study
This session explores a pilot project in which iPads were provided to students enrolled in four classes (journalism and English), distributed to key student-services departments (library, tutoring centers), and checked out to faculty members and staff. Learn how students responded to the use of iPads in their classes, the applications they accessed, and what Scottsdale Community College plans for the future in regard to mobile learning.

IdeaScaleVIEW ALL IDEAS

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IdeaScale: Join the Conversation

Explore the ideas that were shared on IdeaScale.This social media platform served as the conversation hub for the week and allowed participants to share ideas, voice their opinion via quick-vote (agree or disagree), share documents, URLs, YouTube videos, and more.

No login is required to view the conversation. To interact, you will need to log in, which is easy using a Google, Facebook, AOL, Twitter, Yahoo!, or OpenID account. If you do not have a login through one of these services, or would prefer to use a separate account, you can create one through IdeaScale.

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Recommended Resources

Evaluating a Campus-Wide Mobile Learning Initiative: Lessons Learned from ACU's First Three Years An EDUCAUSE Live! web seminar with Scott Perkinsand George Saltsman, who discuss the findings from research about faculty perspectives, classroom evaluations, and student engagement from the first threeyears of the mobile learning initiative at Abilene Christian University.

Digital Texts and the Future of Education: Why Books? A pilot program at Abilene Christian University that investigated whether the metaphor of a "book" fullyexploits the learning potential of mobile devices by testing a mobile app for statistics (from the issue of EQ focused on mobile technology).

Why Mobile? An article by three Seton Hill University administrators about their institution's decision to provide iPads to all students, as well as to faculty and many staff, in an effort to pilot the new technology and evaluate its impacts (from the issue of EDUCAUSE Review focused on mobile technology).

7 Things You Should Know About iPad Apps for Learning An ELI discussion of applications designed for the iPad and how this class of devices might add a new dimension to teaching and learning in higher education.

The Educational Potential of Mobile Computing in the Field An evaluation of the ways in which tablet computers deepened the engagement and learning among students taking environmental science, ecology, and biology courses and using the devices for learning in the field (from the issue of EQ focused on mobile technology).

Mobile Literacy An article in which a professor of emerging media and communications argues that the addition of mobile devices to higher education introduces the notion of mobile literacy to the skills that students need in order to succeed (from the issue of EDUCAUSE Review focused on mobile technology).

Learning through Situated Simulations: Exploring Mobile Augmented Reality An ECAR research bulletin that discusses the impacts on student learning at the University of Oslo from a program that employs augmented reality on mobile devices.

Mobile Teaching Versus Mobile Learning An essay urging higher education to refocus effort away from teaching and toward learning with mobile devices and to see them as useful not just for consumption but also for production (from the issue of EQ focused on mobile technology).

Mixable: A Mobile and Connected Learning Environment A description of Mixable, a mobile application developed by Purdue University, which lets students use familiar tools—Facebook, Twitter, and Dropbox—to build and share personal learning environments (from the issue of EQ focused on mobile technology).

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Additional Resources on:

Mobile Learning
Augmented Reality
E-Books
E-Readers
Tablets and iPads

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